{"id":30067,"date":"2016-11-06T00:32:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T00:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bomb-blast-kills-children-in-turkey-s-sirnak\/"},"modified":"2016-11-06T00:33:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T00:33:25","slug":"bomb-blast-kills-children-in-turkey-s-sirnak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bomb-blast-kills-children-in-turkey-s-sirnak\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb blast kills children in Turkey&#8217;s Sirnak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{At least two children killed and four wounded in an explosion officials blame on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party.}<\/p>\n<p>A bomb blast in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak killed at least two children, local officials said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Four more children were also wounded in the attack, the governor&#8217;s office said in a statement, which blamed the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) for the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, authorities appointed a new mayor to the Sirnak municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish authorities have been replacing municipal officials in the mainly Kurdish southeast, accusing them of supporting the PKK.<\/p>\n<p>The government has also stepped up a military campaign in the troubled southeast to eradicate PKK fighters, who have launched repeated attacks since the rupture of a fragile ceasefire last year.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the PKK first took up arms in 1984, with the aim of carving out an independent state for Turkey&#8217;s Kurdish minority.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16206 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/53faa9c092264bcf9f0e23dcdd342f8a_18.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey has stepped up a military campaign in the troubled southeast to eradicate PKK fighters \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{At least two children killed and four wounded in an explosion officials blame on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party.} A bomb blast in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak killed at least two children, local officials said on Saturday. Four more children were also wounded in the attack, the governor&#8217;s office said in a statement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30067"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30067"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}