Turkish Digest Advertising Rates

Annual Advertising options

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Turkish police detain six suspects over bomb blast

"Turkish police detain six suspects over bomb blast

ANKARA, Aug 23, (AFP): Turkish police have detained six suspects in connection with a car bomb attack in the city of Izmir that injured 16 people and was claimed by a radical Kurdish group, Anatolia news agency said Saturday. Three people were arrested in Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey’s Kurdish-populated southeast which has been the theatre of a 24-year Kurdish insurgency, the agency quoted Izmir Governor Cahit Kirac as saying. The remaining suspects were detained in the Aegean port of Izmir, Kirac said, without giving further details."

More:Arab Times :: Turkish police detain six suspects over bomb blast