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Police investigate attack on Sincar's house
• Five wounded it; bombing, DEP
says target was Leyla Zana
Turkish DaÎly News
ANKARA- Police are investigating an attack
in the Southastern town of KlZIltepe in
Mardin on the home of a murdered Kurdish
deputy whose funeral ceremony in Ankara
was.banned last week by officials.
Five !eople, including a child, were
wounde in Friday night's attack, which was
carried out with bombs and guns allegedly
after police and gendannerie protection for
the house was lifted.
Kurdish-based Democracy Party (DEP)
DeputyLeyla Zana, who was staying at the
house of the late Mehmet Sincar, escaped
the attack without injury. But Kurdish activists
claim she was tile main target of the assault
and suspect there may have been local
official tolerance.
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Last week, Sincar's body was flown from
Ankara to his burial site in KlZIltepe by security
officials, and laid to rest there after a
funeral in which his relatives and colleagues
did notparticipate.
Authorities banned DEP and his family
from carrying out a pre-planned funeral ceremony
for Smcar in Ankara. He was killed
along with a local DEP executive, in th~
eastern province of Batman the previous
Saturday while investigating the murder of
~nother ~a~y official. At I~ast 5.4DEP-affillated
activists have been killed m the region
over the past two years.
"The invisible state is trying to create a
provocation here and to frustrate the people.
We will not allow this," Zana, one of the
most oUlsJXlkenKurdish MPs in Parliament
said after the attack. '
Interior Minister Mehmet GazioUu said,
on the. other hand, that certain circles were
attempting to sow seeds of discord between
Turks and Kurds with the bombing.
"We believe those who have interests in
damaging the good relations between Turks
and Kurds were behind the incident" Gazioglu
~d. Zana was quoted by the p~o-Kurd-
Ish Olgür Gündem daily as saying after the
bombing that deputies Ahmet Türk, Mahmut
KJ!mç and Selim Sadak were staying in separate
houses.
. "At about 23:45, while watching televi-
Sion, I heard an explosion. Then I heard two
more !xplosi~ns. Later I ~eard five or six
shots, she said. The Kurdish MP explained
that the women were sleeping on the Oat
roof of the house, as is traditional in the
Southeast, while the men were inside.
"The bombs were thrown on the -rool
among the women," Zana said.
She was threatened last year by a seniOl
.,
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THE DEATH OF AN MP: The killing of Kurdish MP Mehmet Sincar in Batman a week ago Saturday was fOllowed this weekend by an assassination
attempt on his colleague. Diyarbakir Deputy Leyla Zana. Three bombs and gunfire targeted Sincar's house in Klzlltepe. Mardin
where Zana was stayinlil' The attack took place after crack teams and armored patrols were withdrawn. (Above) A police crack team member
guards Sincar's coffin while in an ambulance last Thursday. Authorities rushed his body out cl Ankara, where they had banned Il funeral
ceremony. and laid him to rest themselves in Klzlltepe. Photo: TONIAliFUll UllY
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