In the southeast Turkish town of Bingol, a female suicide bomber blew herself up, wounding some 20 people. Police said that the town of Bingol is mainly a Kurdish dominated region. Idris Naim Sahin, the Interior Minister, said that the blast occurred at a tea house, which is situated close to the office of the current Turkish ruling party the AK, in the main street of the town at around 1:20 pm. Police said that the suicide bomber had detonated the explosive devices that were wrapped around her body. They said further, that they were searching for another suspected attacker, and the police had cordoned off the area around the town some 110 kilometers north of Diyarbakir, the main city of the town of Bingol.

One bystander told Reuters that it was very quiet there. Everything was routine and normal, there were neither any policemen nor any paramilitary (gendarme) in the street that was attacked. He said that at all of a sudden they heard an explosion and people screaming. People rushed to the blast site to help the injured and then paramedics also arrived at the scene.

The suicide attack has come at a time when the Turkish government is busy providing relief efforts to hundreds of thousands of people affected by earthquake in the mainly Kurdish Van province. Turkey has been facing a Kurdish insurgency in its southeastern parts for more than two decades and has recently launched an offensive inside Iraq against the Kurdish rebels, after the killings of 20 Turkish soldiers in southeastern Turkey. The Turkish government and military have blamed the Kurdish rebels for the attack.

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