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Turkey Detains 27 After Bombing by Rebels

   VOA News 23 June 2010
   Top  army  commanders,  politicians  and  thousands of people attend a
   funeral  service  23  Jun 2010 for Buse Sariyag, a 17-year-old Turkish
   girl in her hometown of Elmadag, Ankara, Turkey

Photo: AP

   Top  army  commanders,  politicians  and  thousands of people attend a
   funeral  service  23  Jun 2010 for Buse Sariyag, a 17-year-old Turkish
   girl in her hometown of Elmadag, Ankara, Turkey

   Turkey's  state-run  Anatolia news agency says police have detained 27
   people  for  questioning  about Tuesday's bomb attack that killed four
   soldiers  and  a  teenage daughter of an officer in Istanbul.  It was
   not  made  clear Wednesday whether any of those detained were suspects
   in  the  bombing,  which  targeted  a  bus carrying soldiers and their
   families.
   The   Kurdistan   Freedom  Falcons  have  claimed  responsibility  for
   detonating   the  remote-controlled  roadside  bomb  as  the  bus  was
   traveling  in  Istanbul's Halkali district, home to a military housing
   complex.   The group is an offshoot of the autonomy-seeking Kurdistan
   Workers Party, or PKK.
   Turkish officials have called the attack an act of terrorism.
   At  a  summit  of southeastern European nations in Istanbul Wednesday,
   Turkish  Prime  Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused European nations
   of  insufficient  cooperation with Turkey in its fight against Kurdish
   militants.   Ankara  claims  much  of the PKK's funds come from Kurds
   living in Europe.
   Tuesday's  blast  and  other  attacks by Kurdish rebels have killed 17
   Turkish soldiers recently.  On Monday, Turkey began a major operation
   against  Kurdish  rebels along the Turkish-Iraqi border in response to
   the attacks.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.

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