Leftist militant group claims responsibility for Istanbul suicide blast![]() September 11, 2012 - 19:43 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A Turkish leftist militant group was responsible for a suicide bombing at a police station in Istanbul on Tuesday, September 11 which killed one police officer, a statement published on a website close to the group and a senior security official said, according to Reuters. The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), which has carried out at least one suicide attack in Istanbul before, said in the statement that one of its members had carried out Tuesday's attack in the suburb of Sultangazi. It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the statement, but a high-ranking security officer told Reuters that the security services also believed the DHKP/C was responsible. Partner news Only three senators on the committee - Republican Ron Paul and Democrats Tom Udall and Chris Murphy - opposed the bill. If true, the exclusion of Rafsanjani and Mashaie would leave the presidential race dominated by hardline conservatives. Amy Elliott, chief administrative officer of the Oklahoma medical examiner's office, said 51 were confirmed dead. An Islamist insurgency, once confined largely to the republic of Chechnya, has spread across the North Caucasus in recent years. Partner news |