ISTANBUL - A radical Kurdish group with ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility on Friday for a motorbike bombing near an Istanbul police station. In a statement on its website, TAK -- seen as a splinter group of the PKK -- claimed the bombing but did not give any information about the individual responsible. The group has already claimed three attacks in Turkey this year including a June 7 car bombing in the centre of Istanbul which left 11 people dead. The PKK, listed as a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies, has resumed deadly attacks since the collapse of a fragile truce in 2015. Thursday's strike was the first bomb attack in Istanbul since the failed July 15 coup seeking to oust the government from power.

Source: Bangkok Post October 07, 2016 16:30 UTC