Bus bombing brings trauma of past terror back to Turkish cities
Today's bus bombing in Bursa bears the hallmarks of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) more than five years after the group's last deadly attack in major city.
ISTANBUL — A deadly bomb attack on a bus carrying prison officers in Bursa raised the specter of a renewed terror campaign in western Turkey by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
A roadside improvised incendiary device is believed to have been detonated by remote control as the bus passed through the Osmangazi district of Bursa, Turkey’s fourth largest city, early Wednesday morning. One prison officer was killed in the blast and several others were injured.
The attacks came two days after the Turkish military launched its latest offensive against PKK bases in northern Iraq.
After the start of the Turkish air and land operation dubbed Operation Claw-Lock, a senior PKK member threatened to carry out attacks on Turkish cities. Duran Kalkan warned that the group, which is listed as a terrorist organization by most Western countries as well as Turkey, would “move the war to Turkish cities.”
