Blast at Kurdish party office in Turkey, no injured 

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Sept 20 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded at an office of Turkey's only
legal Kurdish party early on Thursday morning, breaking windows and doors but causing no
injuries, a party official said.

The blast occurred at 1:00 a.m. local time (2200 GMT) in the town of Cizre in the
southeastern province of Sirnak, Mesait Altindag, a local official in the People's Democracy
Party (HADEP), told Reuters.

He said the building was empty at the time of the blast.

HADEP faces possible closure for allegedly maintaining ties to Kurdistan Workers Party
(PKK) guerrillas, who have waged an armed struggle for a homeland in the mainly Kurdish
southeast since 1984. PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan ordered his followers to withdraw from
Turkey and seek cultural rights through political means after he was arrested and convicted
for treason in 1999.

HADEP denies any links to the PKK and says it campaigns for greater cultural rights for
Turkey's 12 million Kurds.
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