DIYARBAKIR (AFP) - A radical faction of the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) appears to have been behind a deadly bombing in southeast Turkey, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday. Erdogan told journalists Tuesday’s attack, in which 10 people died, did not appear to have been carried out by the nationalist group that has claimed responsibility. Asked whether PKK separatists were responsible, the prime minister replied, “At the moment it would seem that, yes, the investigations point to them.”

BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union yesterday warned Bosnia’s political parties to tone down their ethnic rhetoric before October parliamentary elections. EU foreign ministers also urged Bosnian authorities to move quickly to implement needed reforms if they wanted to keep talks on forging closer ties with the EU on track. In a statement, the EU ministers “expressed concern at recent cases of inflammatory rhetoric used during the election campaign.”

A court in Istanbul yesterday formally arrested a worshipper in connection with the alleged lynching of a man inside a mosque earlier this month, police said. Irfan Can was among scores of men questioned after an angry group of worshippers allegedly killed a man inside the Ismailaga Mosque in Istanbul’s Fatih district, minutes after he reportedly stabbed an imam to death. (AP)

Bosnia’s top international official yesterday appointed a special envoy to the divided city of Mostar, giving him authority to impose solutions toward unifying the local administration. International administrator Christian Schwarz-Schilling said the “deadlock” caused by nationalist politics in Mostar “leaves me no choice” but to intervene. He appointed German diplomat Norbert Winterstein to help solve issues left over from the 1992-1995 war. (AP)

Some 8,000 teachers gathered in Bucharest to protest low salaries yesterday, as thousands of students began the new school year. (AP)