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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.
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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. 

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