Separatist Kurdish rebels have claimed responsibility for a blast that cut a strategic oil pipeline in Turkey and helped push up global oil prices once again.
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in eastern Turkey, which brings Azeri oil from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean, has been on fire since Tuesday night and is expected to be closed for 15 days. The pipeline can pump slightly more than 1 million barrels per day. The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Germany Fears PKK Attack on Top Minister, News Report Claims ...
Germany Rejects Demands of Kurdish Rebels in Hostage Crisis ... said the blast was "an act of sabotage" by its militants, according to a pro-Kurdish news agency. The PKK, listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the US and the European Union, has sabotaged gas and oil pipelines as part of its armed campaign for self-rule in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
(Deutsche Welle)
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