Ten Britons hurt in Turkey blasts

Without more detail (Reuters just says the same), I can't tell if this is British-centric reporting, or if it was only Britons hurt.

FOUR separate blasts on Turkey's popular coastal region and in the country's commercial capital Istanbul injured at least 22 people, state news agency Anatolian reported today.

Anatolian said three blasts occurred near the southern coastal area of Marmaris early today and another in Istanbul late yesterday.

The British Foreign office said 10 British tourists were among the wounded in Marmaris, four of them seriously.

"There have been three explosions in the resort of Marmaris, Turkey and 10 British nationals have been injured and are in hospital. We have consular staff on the ground," a Foreign Office spokeswoman said.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20275119-1702,00.html
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27160478.htm

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27160478.htm

ISTANBUL, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Four separate bombs at a popular Turkish coastal resort and in the country's commercial hub Istanbul wounded at least 27 people, including 10 British tourists, authorities said on Monday.

Ten Britons and 11 Turks were wounded when their minibus blew up on one of the main streets of Marmaris, a busy tourist town on the Mediterranean coast. The British Foreign Office said three of the Britons were in intensive care.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility.

I found this article and "checked for duplicates" before posting--this signals some BIG TROUBLE brewing yet again: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aV4erq24ehHs&refer=uk

Four explosions killed two people and injured more than 20 in the Turkish Mediterranean resorts of Antalya and Marmaris, both popular destinations for European holidaymakers, said police and local officials.

In Antalya, particularly favored by Germans and Russians, the blast rocked a busy shopping street killing at least two people, local police said. Turkish television news channel NTV said a third person died on the way to the hospital. At least four were injured, said police and government officials.

Three bombs earlier exploded in Marmaris, injuring 21 people, said a local police official on condition of anonymity. One of the devices seems to have gone off under a seat in a ``dolmus'' taxi-bus carrying tourists and locals into the city center, he said. Ten of the injured in Marmaris were British, according to the U.K.'s Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

The Foreign Office on its Web site warned British nationals of a ``high threat'' from terrorism in Turkey, where attacks on U.K. interests include the 2003 bombing of the U.K. consulate in Istanbul and offices of HSBC Holdings, which killed 30 people.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks overnight and today, said the police spokesman. Kurdish rebels, whose fight for autonomy was rekindled last year after a six-year lull, have placed bombs at Turkish tourist sites in the past. ...

Ya know, everyone is looking at the Shi'a - Sunni dustups as the ones with potential to cause some major shit to hit the fan in the region, what with Iran and their Hizb'Allah proxies in Lebanon, the Shi'a - Sunni bloodletting in Iraq, and so forth.

But here we have the TURKISH Kurds opening up a new front. We've already seen reports of Iran cooperating with Turkey to bomb some of the poor bastards up there in the remote northern regions...

Wouldn't it be a real bear if, while everyone is looking south and to the west, that the real fuses for the next great conflict is being lit to the north and east....

Don't rule it out. Those Kurds have been settin' on their anger for a century or more...