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Your support makes all the difference.ISTANBUL - A large bomb wrecked the headquarters of Turkey's only legal pro-Kurdish party yesterday, worsening still further a new spate of such attacks involving a confused triangle of Kurdish separatists, Islamic fundamentalists and the Turkish armed forces writes Hugh Pope.
Two people were killed when the blast erupted in the lift of the run- down building in central Ankara that houses the headquarters of the Democracy Party as well as a number of pro-Kurdish publications.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the third such attack this month on Democracy Party offices. But party officials believe they are the subject of an officially- backed campaign of repression that has killed 55 DEP activists and jailed many more in the run up to next month's national municipal elections. The PKK has responded with its own bombings.
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