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PKK denies connection to Istanbul explosion

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Spokesman for the Kurdistani Workers Party (PKK) has denied in a telephone call with the AFP in Istanbul on Tuesday any responsibility for the explosion which took place in a trade center in the downtown of Istanbul on Saturday and resulted in killing 12 persons. On Tuesday the governor of Istanbul, Eirol Shaker, said that the PKK claimed out the operation.

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