The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), also known as Kongra-Gel, claimed responsibility on Friday (Oct 25) for attacking a state-owned defence manufacturer's headquarters near Ankara.

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused the United States of siding with "terrorists" after Ankara said outlawed Kurdish militants had executed 13 Turks in Iraq.

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They said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants staged the attack in the Kuyutepe military base area of Sirnak province

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The explosion took place as the bus carrying riot police passed an area near?Diyarbakir's Dicle University, a predominantly Kurdish region

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Kurdistan Workers' Party, fighting a deadly insurgency against the Turkish state for three decades, appear to have intensified their attacks

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Kurdistan Workers Party militants attempted to take the base in three different groups, but were spotted by aerial reconnaissance

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The attack comes a day after Turkish troops killed 19 Kurdistan Workers Party fighters in clashes elsewhere in the Kurdish region

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