Suicide Raid in Eastern Turkey

Steven L. Taylor · Monday, June 4, 2007 · 1 Comment

Via the BBC: Turkey ‘suicide raid kills three’

Three people have been killed in a suicide attack on a military outpost in eastern Turkey, media and police say.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the bombing in Tunceli, where Kurdish rebels are known to operate.

The attack comes amid speculation Turkey may launch an incursion into Iraq to tackle Kurdish rebels following recent rebel operations inside Turkey.

Tensions are increasing on the Turkish-Iraqi border, so any such attacks ratchet the situation up another notch.

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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science at Troy University. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. He is the author of Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia and is currently working on a comparative study of the US to 29 other democracies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging at PoliBlog since 2003. Follow Steven on Twitter