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Four killed, 15 wounded in blast in Southeast Turkey

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DIYARBAKIR -- Four suspected bomb makers were killed and 15 people wounded when an explosion ripped through a village in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, security sources and the Interior Ministry said.The blast occurred at about 10:30 p.m. (1930 GMT) in the Sarikamis district, about 25 km (15 miles) from the region's biggest city of Diyarbakir, as Kurdistan Workers...

Ahmet Davutoglu

Rivals Turkey and Iran seek to 'manage differences'

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, ISTANBUL -- Turkey and Iran, two countries on opposite sides of Syria's civil war, must develop a "common perspective" in order to end sectarian strife in the region, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said during a visit to Tehran on Saturday.Iran, along with Russia, has stood by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the five-year war, providing him with...