Turkey detains ‘perpetrator of Diyarbakir car bombing’: report
Turkish authorities on Saturday detained the suspected perpetrator of a car bomb attack in its main Kurdish-majority city that killed seven police, as a new bombing hit the troubled southeast. The suspect, named as AC, was detained in the Kocakoy district of Diyarbakir, where the seven police were killed and 27 others wounded by Thursday’s massive car bomb attack on a police bus, the Dogan news agency reported. The attack was claimed on Friday by the military wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which had been battling the security forces since a truce broke down last summer. The bombing — unlike previous recent attacks in Turkey — was not a suicide attack but remotely detonated, officials said at the time. Dogan said AC is believed to be the man recorded on security camera footage walking away just before the attack from a parked white car which would later explode when the police bus passed. The Dogan report said nine others suspected of links to the attac