"Ankara Bombing Poses Economic Risks to Turkey
By Frank Hyland
The May 22 suicide bomb attack in Ankara contains elements that are potentially worrisome for the Turkish government, its people and tourists visiting Turkey. If bombings of the same modus operandi continue, a strong, dependable U.S. local ally in the Iraq theater of operations as well as in the wider global response to terrorism could see an intensification of a campaign not yet witnessed to this degree. Turkish authorities first directed suspicions at Kurdish separatists. Initial reports from Ankara police sources, quoted by the Turkish private NTV television channel, stated that the explosion was caused by A-4 plastic explosives, commonly used by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in their long-running effort to establish a Kurdish state."
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