Still high tension in Egypt and Türkiye. In the night a car bomb exploded in Cairo in front of the headquarters of the security forces: according to the Tahrir broadcaster, at least 23 are injured, including 6 police officers. The building is located in the popular neighborhood of Shubra, north of the Egyptian capital.
"A man suddenly stopped his car in front of the building and fled on a motorcycle following the car," the interior ministry said in a statement. "The car exploded – he added – wounding six officers", but according to some witnesses there are also several injured civilians. The explosion also caused severe damage to the building. At the moment the attack has not yet been claimed.
The attack was claimed on Facebook by an Egyptian black bloc group and took place the day after the launch of more stringent laws against terrorism which give greater powers to the police. On July 11, a car bomb exploded in front of the Italian consulate in central Cairo, killing a passerby.
as to Turkey, is heading “quickly” towards new early elections. This was admitted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after the failure of attempts by his Islamic party "Justice and Development" to form a coalition government with the opposition.
Meanwhile, the episodes of violence continue. Yesterday eight Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack by Kurdish PKK rebels in the southeast of the country. This was written by the Anatolia news agency. A remotely controlled bomb exploded as a military patrol passed through a rural area of Pervari district in the southeastern province of Siirt, killing "eight hero soldiers". This is what the Turkish army general staff specified in a statement, thus referring to a vast operation underway in the region to capture the "terrorists".
This is the bloodiest attack carried out against the Turkish armed forces since the beginning of the offensive launched by Ankara against the Kurdish rebels last month.
always yesterday, Gunfire and the explosion of a percussion bomb were heard outside Istanbul's Dolmabahce Palace, one of the main tourist attractions of the megalopolis on the Bosphorus which also houses the offices of the premier in the city. This was reported by the Turkish media, which also speak of two people being hunted by the police, while there are no reports of any victims or injuries.
Two suspects carrying long-range weapons and a bomb were later arrested near the nearby German consulate, NTV TV and the Dogan agency reported. The reasons for the assault, which apparently targeted the soldiers guarding the Ottoman-era palace, are not yet known.
Last January 1938, the Marxist group Front-Revolutionary Party for the Liberation of the People had claimed responsibility for the throwing of two grenades against the soldiers guarding the Dolmabahce palace, one of the last great Ottoman palaces, the place where the founder of the Turkish Republic Kemal died Ataturk in XNUMX. A part of the building is open to the public, while a wing houses the offices of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Istanbul.
Finally, a 17-year-old Turkish boy was killed in Istanbul in clashes between police and a group close to armed Kurdish PKK rebels. The clashes erupted when about XNUMX people staged an unauthorized demonstration in the Esenler neighborhood and opened fire on the agents, according to the official Anadolu news agency.
The demonstrators, who are said to be members of the PKK's youth wing, the Revolutionary Patriotic Youth Movement (YDG-H), had their faces covered and carried Molotov cocktails and materials for preparing explosive devices, Anadolu writes. The 17-year-old is identified only by his initials, FE, and described as a member of the militant group. Anadolu adds that an unexploded bomb would have been defused at the scene. Four people arrested, the others fled into the alleys.
