Day of mourning declared in Turkey after twin blasts kill 29
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Turkey has declared a national day of mourning after twin blasts in Istanbul killed 29 people and wounded 166 others near a soccer stadium.
The Sunday statement from Prime Minister Binali Yildirim's office also ordered flags to fly at half-staff across the country and at Turkey's foreign missions.
Twin attacks Saturday night by a car bomber and a suicide bomber near Istanbul's Besiktas soccer stadium were the latest large-scale assault to traumatize a nation confronting an array of security threats. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but one official said suspicions were focused on Kurdish militants.
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Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told the private news channel CNN Turk that "arrows point to the PKK."
He was referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has waged a decades-long insurgency.