Car bomb rocks Turkish city after police hold opposition politicians
Diyarbakir — A car bomb rocked southeastern Turkey’s largest city on Friday, killing at least one person and injuring more than 100, hours after police held leaders of the mostly Kurdish region’s biggest political party. The blast tore off building facades near the police station in Diyarbakir where some leaders were being held in a terrorism probe. Firefighters were searching debris for people trapped there. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said police and civilians were killed. The detention of the leaders of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), parliament’s second-biggest opposition grouping, and 10 of its MPS heightens concern among Western allies about President Tayyip Erdogan’s deepening crackdown on dissent. The attack, which drew immediate condemnation from the European Union, comes after Turkey detained or suspended more than 110,000 officials in the wake of a failed July coup and considers reintroducing the death penalty, and days after journalists of a leading op...
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