Al-Qaeda Suspicion

Tan said “We have not reached definite information about who placed the bomb yet. My first impression was that it might be PKK. Zübeyir Aydar, the leader of Kongra-Gel announced that PKK/Kongra-Gel had not carried out this assassination. We dwell upon different organizations too. The method of the raid resembles to that of Hizbullah. Or there is an organization called Turkish Al-Qaeda. We cannot give an exact information.”

Tan also told that, before the raid, high-level bureaucrats or soldiers as well as himself, had been warned of an attack but that he incorrectly thought “nothing happens to me.” The governor now started to use armored official car against the possibility of a new attack.