Kurdish rebels deny role in bomb attack
The separatist Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, denied carrying out a bomb attack that killed six people in Ankara, the capital, after Turkish officials said the assault bore the hallmarks of the militant group.
“We have no connection with the attack,” the PKK said in a statement posted on the website of the Netherlands-based Firat News Agency, which has close links to the guerrillas and has published their statements.
Ankara’s governor said earlier that a suicide bomber had carried out the attack.
The outlawed PKK has been fighting for an ethnic homeland in Turkey since 1984, and Ankara blames it for more than 30,000 deaths.
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