{"id":165679,"date":"2012-03-01T14:51:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T10:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=165679"},"modified":"2012-03-01T14:51:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T10:51:52","slug":"bomb-injures-10-police-near-turkey-ruling-party-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/01\/bomb-injures-10-police-near-turkey-ruling-party-hq.html","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Injures 10 Police near Turkey Ruling Party HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A remote control bomb injured 10 police officers on Thursday as their vehicle passed close to the Istanbul headquarters of Turkey&#8217;s ruling AK Party, Turkish police said, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/03\/01\/us-turkey-explosion-idUSTRE8200EI20120301\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Reuters<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin said the device was placed on a motorcycle and set off by remote control as a police vehicle drove past, near the AK Party building and the offices of a conservative business association.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a police vehicle carrying 21 officers was passing by, a remote control bomb on a motorcycle exploded. Our teams are carrying out the investigation. Ten policemen were wounded, but none of them are in critical condition,&#8221; Capkin told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Kurdish separatists, far left groups, far right groups and Islamist militants, including al Qaeda, have all carried out bomb attacks in Turkey in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are wounded people, many ambulances are coming here after the explosion,&#8221; a witness told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a very strong explosion like an earthquake,&#8221; another witness told CNN Turk television.<\/p>\n<p>Fire engines and police vehicles surrounded the area, and shattered glass from nearby buildings littered the streets near the scene of the explosion in Istanbul&#8217;s Sutluce district.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remote control bomb injured 10 police officers on Thursday as their vehicle passed close to the Istanbul headquarters of Turkey&#8217;s ruling AK Party.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12894,12893,18566,10933,24771],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}