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		</div><p>The PKK is being blamed for a bomb attack in central Turkey which has killed at least 13 people.</p>
<p>Turkey&#8217;s president Recep Erdogan claims terrorists were behind the explosion which targeted a bus carrying military personnel which also left 55 other people injured.</p>
<p>The blast comes a week after a car bomb attack claimed by Kurdish militants killed 44 people, mainly riot police posted outside a football stadium in Istanbul.</p>
<p>The army said 48 troops were among those wounded in Saturday&#8217;s &#8220;treacherous attack&#8221;.</p>
<p>The state-run Anadolu Agency said the explosion happened at the entrance to Erciyes University, hitting a public bus which included soldiers among its passengers. Minister Suleyman Soylu, speaking in Kayseri, said six of the injured were in a critical condition.</p>
<p>Images taken moments after the explosion showed a smoking public bus, still in flames, with its windows blown open and its interior blackened.</p>
<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility but statements from top officials suggested suspicion was focused on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party, or PKK, which Ankara and the West consider a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>Kurdish militants have claimed multiple attacks against soldiers and police across Turkey this year in violence that has also caused casualties among civilians.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Turkey is under a combined attack by terrorist organizations, especially the divisive terrorist organization,&#8221;</i> President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement released by his office Saturday, referring to the PKK.</p>
<p>The Turkish state has fought PKK for decades in a conflict which has claimed tens of thousands of lives. The collapse of a two-and-a-half-year ceasefire in July 2015 set the stage for a violent new chapter and ushered vast security operations in the predominantly Kurdish south-east.</p>
<p>Turkey is also at odds with Western-backed Kurdish factions fighting against the Islamic State in neighbouring Syria and Iraq. Turkey views these groups as extensions of the PKK.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We know that these attacks we have endured are not unrelated to happenings in Syria and Iraq, or even our economical fluctuations,&#8221;</i> said Mr Erdogan.</p>
<p>A state of emergency was declared following a botched coup attempt on July 15 and remains in force.</p>
<p>Turkey&#8217;s prime ministry office imposed a temporary blackout on coverage of the explosion and urged media to refrain from publishing anything that may cause <i>&#8220;fear in the public, panic and disorder and which may serve the aims of terrorist organizations&#8221;.</i></p>
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