Novruz festivities banned in Turkey

  16 March 2016    Read: 1247
Novruz festivities banned in Turkey
The festivities on the occasion of Novruz holiday have been banned in Turkey
Any public events on the occasion of Novruz holiday will be prohibited in Turkey’s south-eastern provinces from March 17 to March 20.

The governors of Turkey’s south-eastern provinces made a decision to ban the festivities because of the threat of terrorist attacks.

The Turkish police reported that the PKK (Kurdistan Workers` Party) terrorist organization intends to realize a series of terrorist attacks from March 20 to March 30 in major cities of Turkey.

A car bomb exploded in Ankara on March 13, near a crowded bus stop. The explosion killed as many as 37 people, 125 more got injured.

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