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August 18, 2016

At Least Five Police Officers Killed in Bombings in Eastern Turkey
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In Turkey, at least five police officers were killed and more than 100
people wounded by car bomb attacks in eastern Turkey on Wednesday and
Thursday. The Turkish government blamed the attacks on the Kurdistan
Workers' Party, known as the PKK. Earlier this week, Turkish authorities
shut down a newspaper in Istanbul and arrested some of its staff after
claiming the paper supported the PKK. The newspaper's closure is part of
an ongoing crackdown on dissent in Turkey following a failed military
coup in July.


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