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Turkey: One dead in explosion at desk in Istanbul

14:13, Thursday, 26 March, 2015
Turkey: One dead in explosion at desk in Istanbul
     An explosion in a Turkish magazine editor in Istanbul, there has been a dead man. Three other people were injured in the blast on Wednesday night, reports the news agency Dogan. Initial reports said the police closes a bomb attack on the magazine’ Adimlar’ not – the sheet are links to radical Islamic group IBDA -C rumored.parts of the facade of the editorial rooms on the third floor were blown off and fell into the street. Several windows were broken in the area. The cause of the blast was initially unclear, according to reports. However, the police close a gas leak and therefore consider a stop for possible sources said.

The group IBDA -C is classified by the US and the European Union as a terrorist organization. In the past decade, the group known for attacks several times, but in recent years it has been quiet around them

In Istanbul there came again and again in recent months for attacks -. Usually they are directed against security forces. Thus, the left-wing extremist group DHKP -C had carried out a suicide attack in January in which a police officer was injured. The end of February had triggered a major police operation in the Turkish city of a bomb scare before the US consulate, a man was arrested there.

In Turkey, there have long been concerns about possible attacks by the terrorist militia’ Islamic State’ (IS ) whose territory extends to the Syrian-Turkish border.

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