'The solution of the Kurdish issue would make Turkey more powerful'
The suicide bomber was Ecevit Sanli, a member of the DHKP-C (Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front), a small leftist group with roots in the 1960s Marxist movements. Sanli was known to the police, because he had been involved in an attack against the police headquarter and a military establishment in Istanbul in 1997 and was imprisoned until 2002. Then, he was released because of health reasons, he had the Wernicke Korsakoff Syndrome, a serious disease often caused by long-term hunger strikes. It seems to be a "strategy" of the DHKP-C to use very ill members for suicide attacks. DHKP-C has been targeting US-personell and institutions in Turkey since the early 1990s starting with the Gulf War.
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