TURKISH AUTHORITIES HAVE LAUNCHED an investigation after a makeshift explosive device was found under the car of a police officer guarding an open-air speech by President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan.
The rally took place on Saturday in
Siirt, a Kurdish-majority town located about 90 miles from the
Turkish-Syrian border. The town has a symbolic significance for ErdoÄŸan,
as it is the hometown of his wife, Emine ErdoÄŸan, and was his
constituency for four years. In 2003 he won a by-election there and
entered the Turkish Grand National Assembly as a member.
According
to pro-government Turkish media, the makeshift bomb was affixed to the
undercarriage of a private car. The car belongs to a police officer in
the city of Nusaybin (pictured), in the province of Mardin, which is
situated on the Turkish-Syrian border. The explosive device was detected
by a bomb squad on Saturday morning, as the police officer was
preparing to depart for Siirt, where he was going to help secure an
outdoor rally by ErdoÄŸan. The purpose of the rally was to gather support
for the embattled ErdoÄŸan, as the Turkish economy is undergoing its
most serious recession in a generation.
Turkish media said that a specialist bomb
squad was dispatched to Nusaybin upon the discovery of the device, and
defused it “in a controlled manner”. Later that day, ErdoÄŸan began his
speech at the rally in Siirt by mentioning the discovery of the device,
saying that the “defeats suffered by the terrorists” were bound to
prompt “confessions of treachery and meanness”, which will be “revealed
in time”. Southeastern Turkey, where Siirt is located, is a stronghold
of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an armed secessionist group that
Turkey has been battling for nearly 40 years.
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