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Default SAFE TURKEY, TURKISH deep state: "Cumhuriyet Daily Third Time Bombed"...


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Bianet - "Cumhuriyet Daily Third Time Bombed":


Grenade hurled at Istanbul headoffice of daily for 3 times in a week. No
casualties reported in Thursday's blast where a percussion bomb was used.
Editor-in-Chief Yildiz says "Attack against democracy and press freedom".



ISTANBUL / 12 May 2006 / by Erol Onderoglu



The headquarters of Turkey's independent radical republican Cumhuriyet
newspaper premises in the Sisli district of Istanbul was target of bomb
attack for the third time in a week on Thursday, despite security personnel
now surrounding the building and reinforced private security throughout the
compound. No casualties were reported in the blast.

It is believed a percussion grenade was used in the attack staged by two
assailants who escaped on foot after throwing the hand bomb into the
building's alley.

Witnesses said the culprits ran as private security guards opened fire in
the air and they were chased, unsuccessfully, by the police too. The two
were heard shouting aloud the Islamic takbir "Allahu Akbar" or "God is The
Greatest" during the incident.

Newspaper columnist Hikmet Cetinkaya said that windows of the building were
shattered during the blast and several vehicles in front were also damaged.
He said the developments were extremely concerning and stated that the
attack had taken place despite heavy security measures.

Thursday's bombing follows what appear to be two warning attacks over the
past week. Last Friday, May 5, assailants threw an unarmed grenade into the
garden of the building which was found with its detonation pin still intact.

On Wednesday night, another grenade wrapped in white cloth was hurled into
the newspaper's garden again, this time with its detonation pin removed but
police said it had failed to explode possibly due to a failure in its
detonation mechanism.

"This attack has been committed against democracy and the freedom of press"
said the daily's Editor-in-Chief Ibrahim Yildiz commenting on Thursday's
explosion in an interview with the NTV television, stressing that they were
working under very tense conditions.

Editor Mehmet Sucu told Bianet after Wednesday's abortive attack that the
assailants were trying to intimidate those working in the newspaper and
added "we will continue our publication even with more strength, according
to our views... For years we have been targets of attacks and we have also
given martyrs".



Reactions to bombing



Press Council deputy chair Dogan Heper said Thursday's attack on Cumhuriyet
was "crude and primitive" and described the attack against the freedom of
communication being saddening. "We want the culprits to be captured
immediately and for measures to be put in place to prevent such attacks in
the future" he said.

The Human Rights Association (IHD) issued a statement in which it said the
attacks on Cumhuriyet were attacks on the right to gather news and described
them as "violence aimed to create security concerns".

The statement said "On one hand there are attempts to restrict the freedom
of press with the Anti-Terror Law and on the other hand, forces against
freedoms and democracy are increasing violence by the day".

Revolutionary Workers Unions Confederation (DISK) chairman Suleyman Celebi
said the attack carried out against Cumhuriyet targeted the values that it
represented and to those believing in these values after describing the
daily's role in reflecting the need for a secular and democratic society.

"What is more important" Celebi said, "is that whoever is really behind this
attack, the target is to create a social chaos".


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