Five people killed as a result of a

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Subject: Five people killed as a result of a (PKK?) bomb

 VT18917; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:02:51 -0800


ANKARA, Sept 18 (Reuter) - The death toll from the bombing of a cafe in the
Turkish city of Izmir rose to five on Monday after a soldier died of his
wounds, hospital officials said.

The 20-year-old private was one of 25 people wounded in the explosion on Sunday
at a cafe frequented by soldiers on weekend leave in the western city. Another
soldier and three civilians were killed almost immediately.

No group has claimed responsibility for the blast but Izmir police chief Kemal
Yazicioglu vowed the bombers would be found. "There was a similar attack last
year, the perpetrators were caught and we passed all the information to the
media," he told Reuters by telephone. "We have some suspicions," he said,
without elaborating.

In January, Turkish police arrested a leading Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
guerrilla who they said was responsible for a bombing in Izmir last October
which killed one person. Yazicioglu at the time accused Turkey's rival Greece
of training the bomber at a camp near Athens. Greece denied the charge.

Anatolian news agency said the bomb that caused the latest blast was a homemade
device of a type often used by the PKK.

More than 18,000 people have been killed in the rebels' 11-year-old fight for
autonomy or independence in southeast Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds
have migrated to the Izmir area in recent years to flee the fighting.

Izmir's mayor called for tighter controls on migrants to cities in western
Turkey. "This incident also shows that visas and registration of residence
should be brought into force in the big cities," Anatolian quoted mayor Burhan
Ozfatura as saying.

In the southeastern town of Diyarbakir, regional security officials on Monday
said Turkish troops had killed 11 Kurdish rebels and lost two of their own men
in a clash near Dicle township in Diyarbakir province.

The emergency rule governor's in Diyarbakir said in a statement that the PKK
guerrillas and the soldiers were killed on Sunday. Anatolian also said two
soldiers died when a military vehicle overturned in the southeastern province
of Van.


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