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Daesh Claims Responsibility for Diyarbakir Bombing

Daesh Claims Responsibility for Diyarbakir Bombing
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Daesh ["ISIS" / "ISIL"] claimed responsibility for a car bomb blast in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir that killed at least 9 people and injured over 100, Reuters reports. This comes after Ankara attributed the attack to Kurdish militant group PKK.

Daesh Claims Responsibility for Diyarbakir Bombing

The agency cited the terrorist group's Amaq news agency claiming Daesh carried out the Friday morning attack, which targeted a riot police building in one of the largest cities in southeast Turkey.

The blast went off close to the Diyarbakir state prison, where some of the opposition leaders, arrested late last night by Turkish police, are believed to be held.

Two co-chairs and 11 deputies of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party [HDP] were detained for their refusal to give testimony on the probes linked to "terrorist propaganda." Three of the deputies were subsequently released "under judicial control" after the first day of proceedings on Saturday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reports. The deputies are not allowed to leave the country for the time of the investigation.

In the aftermath of the explosion, the Diyarbakir governor issued a statement, claiming that the military wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party [PKK] was behind the attack. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim also attributed the attack to the PKK, saying that one of the deceased was a suspected member of the outlawed group.

Ankara further accused HDP of having links to the PKK.

The EU condemned the bombing, laying the blame on the PKK, with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini issuing a statement in which she reiterated that "the EU considers the PKK to be a terrorist organization," while expressing condolences to the victims.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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