Kurdish group claims Istanbul bomb attack
Xinhua, June 10, 2016 Adjust font size:
A Kurdish group on Friday claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack that killed 11 people in central Istanbul on Tuesday, Turkish media reported.
The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), a Kurdish militant group linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), announced on Twitter that it carried out the attack.
A bomb-laden car was exploded in the morning rush hour on Tuesday as a riot police shuttle bus passed by in the neighborhood of Vezneciler in Istanbul's Fatih district, killing 11, including six police officers and injuring 36 others.
The TAK had previously claimed three suicide bombing attacks that hit Turkey's capital Ankara in February and March respectively and the northwestern city of Bursa in May.
Turkish security forces and the PKK, which is branded as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, resumed fighting in July last year in the country's southeast, ending a peace process that had lasted for more than two years.
On Thursday, the PKK claimed the car bomb attack that hit Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin on Wednesday and killed six. Endit