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Hi, new guy in Spain, with newbie problems :-)
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<blockquote data-quote="Artist 2004" data-source="post: 122365" data-attributes="member: 177270"><p>There seems to be a policy in Turkey of minimising the reports of the various bombings, probably to try and minimise the benefits of publicity to the PKK (Kurdish terrorist group in the east), and probably to minimise the impact on tourism (although they seem to be doing a good job of that themselves by whacking huge taxes on alcohol. Wine is more expensive here than anywhere in Western Europe, except for Scandinavia)</p><p></p><p>Gameboy has a good link to the BBC, but that article only covers a single bomb in Kusadasi, albeit the most devastating of a series. In local papers it was relegated to a couple of inches at the bottom of a page.</p><p></p><p>Just from memory here are others that were not so significant, but all targeted at tourists. There are quite a few bombings but quite small scale.</p><p></p><p>April: Cesme (holiday town and port near Izmir), bomb killed one policeman.</p><p>3 or 4 weeks ago: Cesme again, bomb in litter bin in town square lightly injured several.</p><p>2 weeks ago: Cesme port: a percussion bomb (I drove past it minutes after it happened, police everywhere, no injuries)</p><p>Same day: Altinkum (not far from Cesme) percussion bomb, no injuries, but locals afraid now.</p><p>Yesterday: Istanbul: large explosion wrecking some cars and killing some people, but cause uncertain (could be gas).</p><p>A couple of days ago: Antalya: two bombs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Artist 2004, post: 122365, member: 177270"] There seems to be a policy in Turkey of minimising the reports of the various bombings, probably to try and minimise the benefits of publicity to the PKK (Kurdish terrorist group in the east), and probably to minimise the impact on tourism (although they seem to be doing a good job of that themselves by whacking huge taxes on alcohol. Wine is more expensive here than anywhere in Western Europe, except for Scandinavia) Gameboy has a good link to the BBC, but that article only covers a single bomb in Kusadasi, albeit the most devastating of a series. In local papers it was relegated to a couple of inches at the bottom of a page. Just from memory here are others that were not so significant, but all targeted at tourists. There are quite a few bombings but quite small scale. April: Cesme (holiday town and port near Izmir), bomb killed one policeman. 3 or 4 weeks ago: Cesme again, bomb in litter bin in town square lightly injured several. 2 weeks ago: Cesme port: a percussion bomb (I drove past it minutes after it happened, police everywhere, no injuries) Same day: Altinkum (not far from Cesme) percussion bomb, no injuries, but locals afraid now. Yesterday: Istanbul: large explosion wrecking some cars and killing some people, but cause uncertain (could be gas). A couple of days ago: Antalya: two bombs. [/QUOTE]
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