1 Killed as Turkish Targets Are Attacked Across Europe : Terrorism: Separatist Kurds are apparently responsible for violence in more than 30 cities. Consulates, businesses are hit.

One person died and several others were injured Thursday in a wave of attacks apparently launched by militant Kurdish separatists against Turkish establishments in more than 30 European cities.

While the majority of the attacks came in Germany, Turkish embassies, consulates and buildings belonging to Turkish Airlines or other Turkish-owned businesses were hit in five other countries.

The most serious incident came in the German city of Wiesbaden, where one person died and eight others were injured when a restaurant in a Turkish neighborhood was firebombed. By chance, police witnessed another attack in the city and immediately arrested four Turkish Kurds.

In London, five people were hurt when a bomb was hurled into a Turkish Airlines office.

While there were no exact figures immediately available, the Reuters news agency reported 60 separate targets throughout Northern Europe had been hit during the attacks, most of which occurred shortly before noon.

Copenhagen, Vienna, Bonn, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Hanover, Zurich and Strasbourg were among the other cities struck by the violence.

Police in Germany’s industrial Ruhr region, home of many of the country’s 1.8 million-strong Turkish minority, reported that 22 separate targets were hit in that area alone.

In several instances, typewritten leaflets were found near the scene in which the militant separatist Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, claimed responsibility for the attacks.

“We protest against the genocide that the Turkish state has declared against the Kurdish people,” declared a leaflet found in Wiesbaden.

The terrorist incidents are believed to be in reaction to a Turkish army campaign against Kurds in southeastern Turkey, where the PKK is directing an insurgency aimed at carving out an independent homeland.

Thursday’s attacks marked the second time this year that militant Kurds have unleashed a series of well-coordinated actions against Turkish targets in Europe.

Last June 24, Kurds stormed the Turkish consulate in Munich and held employees hostage for several hours before releasing them unharmed. Turkish-owned buildings in other cities were attacked, and protests were held outside Turkish embassies in other European countries.

A Kurdish demonstrator was killed in Bern, Switzerland, during that action, apparently shot by someone from within the Turkish Embassy as he was protesting outside.

Two bombs were thrown at the same embassy building on Thursday, but no injuries were reported.

While the Kurdish attacks constitute an overt attempt to pressure the Ankara government, they will undoubtedly fuel the animosity toward foreigners that simmers in many Northern European countries.

In Germany, Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel demanded that the government ban the PKK, while the country’s interior minister, Manfred Kanther, threatened a series of actions including restrictions on the political activities of foreigners and on their freedom of movement.