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Euro2day :: Turkish resorts targeted in terror attacks

"Turkish resorts targeted in terror attacks

By David O'Byrne in Istanbul and agencies
Published: 28/8/2006 | Last Updated: 29/8/2006 11:20 London Time

A bomb blast killed three Turks and injured dozens more people, including foreign tourists, in Turkey's south-western resort town of Antalya on Monday, the fifth such terror attack in less than 24 hours.On Sunday one bomb exploded in Istanbul while three in Marmaris, another resort town in the country's south-west, injured 22 people, including Britons and Turks.The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, seen as a front for the Kurdistan Workers party (PKK), claimed responsibility for the attacks. It warned that ''Turkey is not a safe country, tourists should not come to Turkey'."

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