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5 Killed in Attack on Turkish Military

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Source: NYtimes Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Turkish police inspected the wreckage of a military bus after a roadside bomb killed four people and injured 15 on Tuesday in Istanbul. By SEBNEM ARSU Published: June 22, 2010 ISTANBUL — In the latest of a series of attacks on the Turkish military, a remote-controlled bomb killed five people and injured 15 on a busy highway in Istanbul’s Halkali district early on Tuesday, the governor’s office announced. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, Turkish news reports said the attack may have been carried out by the Kurdistan Workers Party, an armed separatist group seeking autonomy in southeastern Turkey, which the authorities here, along with the United States and the European Union , consider a terrorist organization. “As Istanbul people, we will hold firm against terror that aims to create an air of anxiety and hopelessness,” Huseyin Avni Mutlu, the Istanbul governor, said. “We will do