Turkey thwarts resort bombing by Kurdish Terrorists
Paramilitary police on Friday defused a powerful bomb believed to be planted by Kurdish rebels on a bridge in the country’s southeast, and police also averted a possible attack in western resort town popular with foreign tourists.
The attempted attacks came a day after police detained a would-be Kurdish rebel bomber.
Kurdish rebels have dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey. Friday’s thwarted attack stoked more fears a day after a Kurdish militant group, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack near a school in the Turkish capital of Ankara that killed three people and wounded 34 this week.
The paramilitary police, acting on a tip, discovered 125 kilograms (275 pounds) of booby-trapped explosives planted on a highway bridge between the cities of Bingol and Elazig in the country’s southeast. The explosives, containing ammonium nitrate and C-4 plastic explosives, were stashed in four large gas canisters as well as a pressure cooker, the governor’s office in Bingol said.