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Turkey explosion: Many feared injured in blast near AK party headquarters in southeastern Van province Turkey explosion: At least 11 feared injured in blast near AKP party headquarters in southeastern Van province
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Many people are feared to be injured in an explosion near the ruling AK party's headquarters in the southeastern Van province.  At 11 people are feared to be injured in an explosion near the ruling AKP party's headquarters in the village of Beşyol of the southeastern Van province. 
Turkish news agency Dogan has quoted local police who said initial reports suggest it was a car bomb.Turkish news agency Dogan has quoted local police who said initial reports suggest it was a car bomb.
There have been no immediate reports of casualties.
The agency said the blast was near to the regional governor's office and the provincial headquarters of the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP). 
The local AKP party's deputy leader, Burhan Kayatürk, told CNN Turk that the target of the attack was the regional headquarters.
Footage of smoke rising from a building and firefighters extinguishing a fire are being shown on local television.
Van province's population is mostly Kurdish. Separatists groups such as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have carried out several terror attacks on the country in recent months after a two-year ceasefire with the government broke down last year. 
The country is also being racked by insurgency by Isis militants angry at the country's strikes against them over the border in Syria. In June, 41 people were killed and 239 others were wounded when two suicide bombers detonated explosives before three others opened fire with AK-47s at Istanbul Airport. 
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