Incident Summary:
04/07/2006: A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the restroom of a Koran school for girls of the Yeni Mahalle Mosque in the Black Sea city of Ordu, Turkey, around 5:15 p.m., injuring her accomplice and two other persons. The bomber's body was recovered and her injured accomplice was apprehended by police while trying to escape. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Overview
GTD ID:
200604070007
When:
2006-04-07
Country:
Turkey
Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Province/administrative
region/u.s. state:
Ordu
City:
Ordu
What
Attack Information
Type of Attack () |
Bombing/Explosion |
Successful Attack? () |
Yes |
Target Information ()
Target Type: Educational Institution |
Name of Entity |
Islamic Religion in Turkey |
Specific Description |
Yeni Mahalle Mosque in Ordu |
Nationality of Target |
Turkey |
Additional Information
Hostages |
No |
Ransom |
No |
Property Damage |
Yes |
Extent of Property Damage |
Unknown |
Value of Property Damage |
Unknown |
How
Weapon Information
Type |
Sub-type |
Explosives |
Suicide (carried bodily by human being) |
Weapon Details |
Police found another bomb in the garden which had not detonated. --Authorities looked into the possibility that the bombing was not a suicide attempt but exploded prematurely. |
Additional Information
Suicide Attack? | Yes |
Part of Multiple Incident? | No |
Criterion 1 () |
Yes |
Criterion 2 () |
Yes |
Criterion 3 () |
Yes |
Doubt Terrorism Proper () |
No |
Additional Information |
As police launched their inquiry into the incident it is believed that the two terrorists had entered the mosque's restroom to prepare for an attack but that the explosives they were going to use for the attack exploded by mistake. --Huseyin Polalar and Kanun Senyurt were 2 of the victims injured at the scene. The bomber's accomplice was injured severely and was being treated at the Ordu State Hospital, along with Huseyin, and Senyurt, who was released after being treated for minor injuries. The Samsun Police Headquarters described two suspects sought as: One is tall, dark skinned and wearing a green cardigan; the other is 1.65 meters tall, dark skinned with black hair wearing blue denim jeans and a black leather jacket. --The HPG [People's Defense Forces] released a statement on April 8 denying involvement in this attack. Police said the next day that the bombing was not likely Kurdish-related and that the bomber was a militant member of a Turkish communist organization, which doesn't have a history of suicide attacks, meaning the explosion may have been an accident during the placement of the bomb. |
Who
Perpetrator Group Information
Group Name |
Claimed Responsibility |
Unknown (suspected) |
No |
Perpetrator Statistics
Number of Perpetrators |
2 |
Number of Captured Perpetrators |
1 |
Casualty Information
Total Number of Casualties |
1 Fatalities / 3 Injured |
Total Number of Fatalities |
1 |
Number of U.S. Fatalities |
0 |
Number of Perpetrator Fatalities |
1 |
Total Number of Injured |
3 |
Number of U.S. Injured |
0 |
Number of Perpetrators Injured |
1 |
Sources
Sources
Fraser, Suzan, “Turkish police say female suicide bomber kills herself, injures two in mosque blast,” Associated Press Worldstream, April 07, 2006. |
Kucukoglu, Erol & Cakan, Seyhmus, “Turkey: Bombings Kill One, Injure Several in Ordu, Diyarbakir,” Istanbul Hurriyet (Internet Version-WWW) in Turkish, April 07, 2006. |
Ross-Thomas, Emma, “Female duo hits mosque in Turkey,” The Toronto Star, April 08, 2006. |
Criteria
Criteria 1
The act must be aimed at attaining a political, economic, religious, or social goal. In terms of economic goals, the exclusive pursuit of profit does not satisfy this criterion. It must involve the pursuit of more profound, systemic economic change.
Criterion 2
There must be evidence of an intention to coerce, intimidate, or convey some other message to a larger audience (or audiences) than the immediate victims. It is the act taken as a totality that is considered, irrespective if every individual involved in carrying out the act was aware of this intention. As long as any of the planners or decision-makers behind the attack intended to coerce, intimidate or publicize, the intentionality criterion is met.
Criterion 3
The action must be outside the context of legitimate warfare activities. That is, the act must be outside the parameters permitted by international humanitarian law (particularly the prohibition against deliberately targeting civilians or non-combatants.
Doubt Terrorism Proper
The existence of a "Yes" for "Doubt Terrorism Proper?" records reservation, in the eyes of GTD analysts, that the incident in question is truly terrorism. Such uncertainty, however, was not deemed to be sufficient to disqualify the incident from inclusion into the GTD. Furthermore, such a determination of doubt is subsequently coded by GTD analysts as conforming to one of four possible alternative designations: 1) Insurgency/Guerilla Action; 2) Internecine Conflict Action; 3) Mass Murder; or 4) Purely Criminal Act.
Alternate Designation
The determination of "yes" for "Doubt Terrorism Proper" by GTD analysts is coded as conforming to one of four possible alternative designations: 1) Insurgency/Guerilla Action; 2) Internecine Conflict Action; 3) Mass Murder; or 4) Purely Criminal Act.
Successful Attack
Success of a terrorist strike is defined according to the tangible effects of the attack. For example, in a typical successful bombing, the bomb detonates and destroys property and/or kills individuals, whereas an unsuccessful bombing is one in which the bomb is discovered and defused or detonates early and kills the perpetrators. Success is not judged in terms of the larger goals of the perpetrators. For example, a bomb that exploded in a building would be counted as a success even if it did not, for example, succeed in bringing the building down or inducing government repression.
Type of Attack
This field captures the general method of attack and often reflects the broad class of tactics used. It consists of the following nine categories:
- Assassination
- Armed Assault
- Unarmed Assault
- Bombing/Explosion
- Hijacking
- Hostage taking (Barricade Incident)
- Hostage taking (Kidnapping)
- Facility / Infrastructure Attack
- Unknown
Target Information
This field captures the general type of target. It consists of the following 22 categories:
- Abortion Related
- Airports & Airlines
- Business
- Government (General)
- Government (Diplomatic)
- Educational Institution
- Food or Water Supply
- Journalists & Media
- Maritime (includes Ports and Maritime facilities)
- Military
- NGO
- Other
- Police
- Private Citizens & Property
- Religious Figures/Institutions
- Telecommunication
- Terrorists
- Tourists
- Transportation (other than aviation)
- Unknown
- Utilities
- Violent Political Parties