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| Turkey explosion: At least 19 feared injured in blast near AKP party headquarters in Van province | |
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| At 19 people are feared to be injured in an explosion near the ruling AKP party's headquarters in the town 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 any deaths but two of those injured were police officers. | |
| 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 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
| Security sources have blamed the PKK for the attack. | |
| 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. | 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. |
| Turkey has seen widespread political upheaval since an ill-fated attempt to oust Mr Erdogan by some members of the army on 15th July. | |
| Since the attempted coup Mr Erdogan has staged a widespread crackdown on the "Gullenists" - supporters of the exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen - which has seen the arrest of at least 26,000 people with thousands more being sacked or forced to resign from government posts, the Armed Forces and the police. | |
| Additional reporting by Reuters |