Nine dead in bomb blast in Turkey

A bomb blast rocked the Turkey The explosion near the Syrian border at least nine people were killed, dozens were injured. The authorities make the PKK responsible for the assassination. The attack occurred near the Turkish border with Syria are in a bomb attack in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on Monday at least nine people were killed and about 60 others injured. A vehicle was prepared with explosives exploded in the evening in the city center in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of the country, Mayor Asim Güzelbey said on Turkish television. In the severe blast near a police station, several cars and a bus had gone up in flames. Three occupants of the bus were among the victims.At first, no one known for the attack near the Turkish border with Syria, where tens of thousands have sought refuge before the Syrian civil war. In recent weeks, there was in the region repeatedly clashes between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish security forces. The authorities make in Turkey banned Kurdistan Workers Party ( PKK ) is responsible for the assassination. The majority of Kurds inhabited region is a stronghold of the PKK, which is fighting against the government since 1984 in Ankara. Only last week, the Turkish deputy Hüseyin Aygün was after his abduction by the PKK again been released. The government in Ankara has accused the regime in Damascus and the Iranian leadership to support the PKK. The Turkish government wants to prevent the PKK uses the civil war in neighboring Syria in order to give birth to permanently inhabited by Kurdish areas under their control. The conflict between Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels had intensified in recent weeks. The PKK has attacked repeatedly Turkish security forces. The Turkish army was in late July launched an air and ground offensive against PKK bases. In the conflict with the PKK since 1984, more than 45,000 people were killed. The PKK is considered by Turkey, the EU and the U.S. as a terrorist organization.She fights since the early eighties for independence or greater autonomy for Kurdish areas in Turkey. Kurdish organizations deplore the systematic discrimination against their ethnic group by the Turkish state.