Русская версияSeparatist 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) 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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