Çatak

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Çatak is a district of Van Province of Turkey, near the border with Iran.

Two people have been killed in a bomb explosion at an outdoor cafe in south-east Turkey, police states on September 4, 2006. It follows a series of bombings in Turkish resorts and Istanbul in the last week of August 2006 in which at least three people died.

A separatist militant group, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (Tac), has said it carried out those attacks. It warned on its website on August 29, 2006 that it would turn "Turkey into hell". The group, which is said to be linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), called on foreign tourists not to travel to the country.

Turkish media said a remote-controlled bomb was detonated as police arrived to investigate a suspicious package. One of the two people killed was a police officer, the state-run Anatolian news agency reported. A local official said the bomb had been placed in a rubbish bin.[1]

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  1. ^ "Two killed in Turkey cafe blast", 2006-09-04 publisher=BBC.


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