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Sympathy for Islamic State in Turkey

Reality Check: Bomb attacks in Turkey, South Korea threatened North over landmines

The US Consulate and a police station have been attacked in the latest violence in Istanbul.

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Turkish security officers arrested 2 suspects within hours.

No claims of responsibility have been made yet, and there is a long list of organisations who could be behind it.

However, it's likely that it is in some way connected with Ankara's changing stance on the civil war in Syria. There are many supporters of the ruling AK party who sympathise with Islamic State, but the government is now actively engaging in military action against IS in Syria.

Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul on the events and their significance as tensions rise between the West, Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK.

South Korea threatens "pitiless penalty"

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A South Korean officer shows a wooden-box mine, of the type believed to be used by North Korea in the DMZ

Two South Korean soldiers have been seriously injured by a landmine in the so called "Demilitarized Zone" between North and South. Seoul is accusing Pyongyang of planting mines with the intent to kill.

Although such incidents are fairly frequent, this one comes at a time of heightened sensitivity, just before the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule.

Stephen Evans explains why the South Korean government is ratcheting up the rhetoric against the North, but further action is unlikely.

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