Istanbul bombing: Why the PKK has turned to urban terrorism
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The military success of Ankara’s draconian crackdown on Kurdish militants has left the PKK with just about one sole remaining weapon
Two days later, the death toll from the double car bomb explosion outside Besiktas football stadium on Saturday may still be climbing. At the time of writing, it stands at 44, 30 of them police. Around 150 people are in hospital recovering from injuries from an explosion which was heard over much of the city of 15 million. “We thought it must be an earthquake,” one Istanbul resident told me.
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