ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN, Number 165

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For your information.

This action was not caried out by the DHKP-C. The DHKP-C never used
bombs, this to avoid innocent victims.

 
>              TURKISH FAR-RIGHT PARTY OFFICES BOMBED
> _________________________________________________________________
> 
>      04:17 a.m. May 21, 1998 Eastern
> 
>      ISTANBUL, May 21 (Reuters) - Two small bombs exploded
> outside the offices of a Turkish far right party on Thursday,
> injuring a passer-by, Anatolian news agency said.
> 
>      The overnight attack took place at an office in Istanbul of
> the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) where rightist militants badly
> beat a left-wing protester in a widely publicised incident
> earlier this month.
> 
>      A banner of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-
> Front leftist guerrilla group was hanging on a bus shelter
> opposite the building after the bombing.
> 
>      A 54-year-old pedestrian was taken to hospital with shrapnel
> wounds from the blasts, which shattered nearby windows. Two other
> small home-made bombs were defused at the scene.
> 
>      Right-wing ``Grey Wolf'' militants hung a leftist from the
> first-floor window of the MHP building while other rightists and
> police beat him during street violence at a May Day protest three
> weeks ago.
> 
>      Since then clashes between left and right have increased.
> 
>      Turkey's leading human rights campaigner, Akin Birdal, was
> seriously wounded last week in a gun attack blamed by his group
> on ultra-rightist gangs. He is now recovering in hospital.
> 
>      His shooting followed accusations in the media that he was
> linked to outlawed Kurdish guerrillas.
> 
>      A Kurdish political party member and a university student
> were also killed this month in attacks blamed on ``Grey Wolves,''
> named after a legendary she-wolf from Turkic Central Asia.
> 
>      Early on Wednesday, three petrol bombs were thrown at
> another MHP office in Istanbul, causing minor damage.
> 
>      Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

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