Posted on 04/07/2006 9:24:24 PM PDT by a_Turk
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A woman suicide bomber was killed at a mosque in Turkey's Black Sea city of Ordu and her colleague injured when a bomb they were carrying blew up on Friday, media reports said.
Two other people were also injured in the blast in the toilets of a Koran teaching facility, next to the mosque, state-run agency Anatolian said, citing police.
CNN Turk quoted local security chief Ridvan Guler as saying there were two "women terrorists" and one had died in the blast while the other was injured and arrested.
Anatolian quoted police as saying they were looking for three people they thought were accomplices.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, and police in Ordu declined to comment.
Television images showed a building that appeared to have been gutted. CNN Turk and Anatolian said a preliminary investigation suggested that the device detonated while the bomber was trying to set it.
The blast would not be the first suicide bombing in Turkey by a woman. A female suicide bomber belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) blew herself up in Istanbul's popular Taksim square in the late 1990s.
Separately, a bomb exploded in the road in Diyarbakir in Turkey's southeast, injuring three including two children. Two of the injured were travelling in a car belonging to local authorities, security officials told Reuters.
Security officials said the bomb was timed to attack army personnel.
The unrest comes at an awkward time for Turkey, which last October began negotiating membership of the European Union.
SERIES OF BOMBINGS
Turkey has been struck by a series of bombings in recent days amid the worst street riots in more than a decade in the mainly Kurdish southeast, which left 16 dead. Scores of soldiers and PKK members have also been killed in separate clashes.
A bomb ripped through offices of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on the outskirts of Istanbul on Wednesday, injuring two people. Last week another bomb attack in Turkey's largest city Istanbul, which killed one person and injured 13 others, was blamed on Kurdish militants.
The Kurdistan Liberation Hawks (TAK), a shadowy group which has ties to the PKK, claimed responsibility for the Istanbul blasts. TAK, formed by former PKK guerrillas, has warned of further attacks.
Turkey blames the PKK, which is viewed as a terrorist organisation by the European Union and the United States, for the deaths of more than 30,000 people since it launched an armed struggle in 1984 for a Kurdish state.
Militant groups including Kurdish separatists, Islamists and ultra-leftists have carried out attacks on civilians, security and military targets in Turkey in the past.
Islamists set off a series of devastating bombs in Istanbul in November 2003, targeting British and Jewish sites and killing more than 60 people.
The government has sent troops to reinforce security across Turkey and says it will not bow to terrorists.
(Additional reporting by Daren Butler)
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Own goal.
At a mosque? A holy site for the Religion of Peace? Surely there must be a mistake!
Well, in the hierarchy of ways and places to die, dying in the toilet, even of a Koran teaching facility, surely counts as shi*ty way to go.
That'll teach 'em not to buy bombs from Acme.....
Another terrorist that will no longer breed.
Flushing the Koran PING!
I am sorry. This makes me sick.
WTF is it with Islam? I know they aren't all suicide bombers, for God's sake, but I think that segment of their population needs to find a hobby, or sex or something. Seems like all you hear about is Muslims blowing something up.
"She blowed up real good."
ping
EU, here we come?
On your mark, get SET, BOOM!!
Maybe they were lighting fatwas..
civil war is imminent.
Al Qaeda wants Turkey to re-invade Northern Iraq.
They did this in the 1980's/1990's to crush the Kurdish Separatist movement.
This is more of the same as what Al Qaeda is doing in Iraq with bombing mosques attempting to start a civil war.
Turkey invading Iraq right now would be destabilizing.
Won't happen, but that's what Al Qaeda is weakly attempting to accomplish.
Don't you just hate these little "work accidents"? NOT!
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