Fwd: Bomb-attack and arrests against HADEP

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Turkish Kurd Party Office Hit After Congress
      ANKARA, June 25 (Reuter) - A Kurdish activist party in Turkey
said on
Tuesday its offices in the western port city of Izmir were damaged by a
small
bomb in the wake of a party congress which enraged authorities.

    ``Two people, thought to be men, threw a small bomb at our
headquarters,'' People's Democracy Party (HADEP) Izmir official Gungor
Soydeveli told Reuters by telephone.

    She said one person was slightly injured and a small amount of
damage was
caused in the attack on Monday afternoon.

    The incident followed an attack on Monday by unknown assailants who
shot
dead three HADEP members as they returned by car from the party's
annual
congress in Ankara.

    A group of between eight and 10 attackers firing automatic weapons
ambushed their car on a road near Kayseri, in central Turkey, local
gendarmerie said. One passenger was wounded.

    HADEP's congress ended early on Monday with the detention of its
leader
Murat Bozlak and about 30 aides, after masked youths tore down a large
Turkish
flag at the meeting.

    Ankara provincial chairman Kemal Okutan said the party was unable
to make
contact with the detained officials.

    ``They may be held in the police station for a week or 10 days.
No-one
here has been able to speak to them, not even their lawyers,'' Okutan
told
Reuters.

    Turkey's political establishment slammed HADEP for the rowdy
congress.
Participants replaced the Turkish flag with a banner of the Kurdistan
Workers
Party (PKK) rebel group and a poster of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.
Hundreds of
people chanted pro-rebel slogans.

    The detained officials were being questioned on charges of
``separatism''
and ``insulting the Turkish flag.''

    The man believed to have lowered the flag and an accomplice have
been
detained, the state-run Anatolian news agency quoted police as saying.

    It said police identified the suspect Omer Doyuran and his alleged
accomplice Resit Pinc from film of the congress.

    Twenty-two people were injured when police dispersed party members
after the
congress, HADEP officials said.

    HADEP was formed in 1994 after another Kurdish party was forced to
disband by the constitutional court for separatism and 13 of its
deputies
were thrown out of parliament.

    Six Kurdish MPs were later sentenced to up to 15 years in jail for
links to
the guerrillas. Two have since been released.

    More than 19,500 people have been killed in the rebels' 12-year-old
fight
for autonomy or independence in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
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