A Kurdish rebel group has claimed responsibility for a bomb blast that killed three people and injured dozens in a Turkish tourist resort.
Firat News Agency, which has close links to Kurdish rebels, reported that the Kurdistan Liberation Hawks (TAK) had said they were behind yesterday's attack on Turkey's top coastal hub Antalya.
The report could not be immediately confirmed.
Yesterday was the second consecutive day of attacks on Turkish Mediterranean resorts and Istanbul, apparently launched to undermine the tourism sector, a key source of foreign currency.
"The Kurdistan Liberation Hawks (TAK) claimed responsibility for the powerful explosion which killed three people and injured more than 20 in Antalya," Firat reported.
TAK, a group tied to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has said it also carried out four bombings on Sunday in Istanbul and the resort of Marmaris which wounded 27 people.
Police have launched a hunt for two people suspected of planting the bomb in the heart of Antalya.
The government has remained silent on the attacks.
Eleven people were still being treated in hospital for their injuries, police spokesman Akif Aktug told Reuters. None of them were in a critical condition.
Police detained a PKK suspect in the western port city of Izmir yesterday and TV footage showed him being led away by police and plastic explosives found in his possession.
TAK has claimed a series of attacks over the last year in tourist resorts and cities across the country. PKK guerrillas carry out attacks mainly against soldiers in the mountains of southeast Turkey from their bases in northern Iraq.
In a statement yesterday, TAK reiterated a warning for tourists not to come to Turkey.
There were no immediate reports of tourist cancellations. Tourism is worth an annual $18 billion to Turkey and has already been hit in 2006 by other bombings and a bird flu outbreak.