Turkish Embassy Rocked

[Arpa]

I heard a blurb about this on the local morning news. I never saw a followup.

Nairi! What is the latest?

Ironic. How Turkey knows how many people would like to see them shaken.

As we speak CNN is throwing cold water over the propect of Turkish troops in Iraq.

Is it beacuse GWB does not understand or speak Turkish? How about Cheney the Dick?!!!

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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:25:55 PST

 

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Reuters

Nov 4 2003

 

Blast Rocks Turkish Embassy in Netherlands

 

 

By Jerry Lampen and Zerin Elci

 

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (Reuters) - An explosion rocked the Turkish embassy

in The Hague Tuesday and fire broke out after a man left a package on the

premises, officials said.

 

Turkey's ambassador to the Netherlands said the blast was caused by a device

left by a man who had entered the chancellery asking for information. The

blast damaged a door and the man ran away, ambassador Tacan Ildem told

Turkish television.

 

"A man coming to the embassy to get some information set off an explosive

which caused a fire. The man, wearing a black jacket, managed to escape

after a struggle with security guards. The man spoke Dutch and is not a

Turkish national," Ildem was quoted as saying on a Dutch television Web

site.

 

Embassy officials found a second package in the same area and bomb disposal

experts were tackling it, a Turkish foreign ministry official said.

 

Interior Ministry spokesman Frank van Beers said he understood one person

had been arrested and another person had jumped out of an embassy window.

Embassy officials told Reuters no one had been injured.

 

The embassy was cordoned off by police but not evacuated.

 

Witnesses saw a bomb squad expert clad in a bombproof suit entering the back

of the embassy and a bomb-detection robot was being prepared to go in.

 

Kurdish separatists, far-leftists, Islamists, Armenian and Greek militants

have all carried out attacks on Turkish targets since the 1970s.

 

An explosion rocked Turkey's embassy in Baghdad on Oct. 14, injuring two

Iraqi policemen, days after the Turkish parliament voted to allow troops to

go to Iraq to help U.S.-led occupation forces in a decision opposed by many

Iraqis.

 

Ambassador Ildem said the embassy had received no threats before and that

Tuesday's incident pointed to a general threat facing Turkey's foreign

missions.

 

He said he had informed Dutch officials about the incident and asked for the

necessary measures to be taken, but that Dutch authorities had declined past

Turkish requests to beef up security, saying there was no need to do so.

(Elci reported from Ankara. Additional reporting by Abigail Levene and

Marcel Michelson in Amsterdam)

[nairi]

It's not about Armenians, yet

 

No one knows the motive yet, but they pretty much stopped talking about it on the news today. It wasn't a bomb explosion. A 16-year-old kid got angry at the embassy for some reason, said he'd be back, and returned a few hours later with petrol and matches and set the embassy on fire. They caught him on the run almost right after the deed. But the ambassador, for whatever reason, spoke of a bomb explosion on Turkish TV about 30 minutes after his embassy was set on fire.

 

The kid's ethnicity hasn't been revealed yet and Dutch papers and agencies, as far as I know, refrained from speculating. So nothing was written or said about Armenians.

[vava]

Thanks 'Correspondent' Nairi - could you please keep us informed of any developments? (Especially if there's an Armenian involved - though I hope not....) When will be people learn that bombing, setting blazes and other such acts are detrimental to their causes???