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		</div><p>Turkish police have detained 18 people in connection with an attack near a courthouse in the western city of Izmir which killed a policeman and a court employee.</p>
<p>Justice minister Bekir Bozdag said authorities had no doubt that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party, or PKK, &#8220;gave the orders&#8221; for the attack.</p>
<p>The two assailants were killed in a shootout with police in Thursday&#8217;s incident in Izmir, Turkey&#8217;s third-largest city, after they detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a roadblock.</p>
<p>The attackers were armed with automatic rifles, rocket launchers and hand grenades, officials said.</p>
<p>Mr Bozdag spoke before thousands of people attended a memorial service for the killed police officer, Fethi Sekin, who authorities say thwarted a larger attack.</p>
<p>The minister said 18 suspects were rounded up, but did not provide details.</p>
<p>The attack was the latest in a string of assaults carried out by Kurdish militants or the Islamic State group that have hit Turkey as it grapples with the aftermath of a failed coup in July, blamed on a movement led by US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.</p>
<p>It came days after 39 people were killed in a nightclub in Istanbul during new year celebrations. IS claimed that attack which it said was a reprisal for Turkey&#8217;s military operations in Syria.</p>
<p>Addressing crowds in the city of Sanliurfa, near the border with Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated claims that unidentified forces wanting to halt Turkey&#8217;s rise were behind such attacks.</p>
<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, the hordes of bloodthirsty murderers released on Turkey are continuing their attacks in open co-operation,&#8221; Mr Erdogan said. &#8220;They are feeding them, arming them, strengthening and leading them to unleash them on Turkey.&#8221;<br />
He also accused Turkey&#8217;s allies of aiming to keep his nation out of military operations to drive IS from Iraq and Syria.<br />
The Turkish leader vowed to press ahead with a military offensive in northern Syria until two key towns have been cleared of IS militants and Syrian Kurdish militia, which Turkey accuses of collaborating with the PKK.<br />
&#8220;The arrow has left the bow. We will not stop until al Bab, Manbij and other regions have been purged of terrorist organisations,&#8221; Mr Erdogan said.</p>
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