Kurd rebels warn they will turn Turkey 'into hell'

After a rash of bombings, a Kurdish militant group has warned that it will turn Turkey "into hell", and urged tourists to avoid travelling to the country, in what appeared to be a trend in the Kurdish guerrilla war against the Turkish state – bombings against “soft targets”.

Many people sunbathing and partying on the Mediterranean coast said they were nonetheless not changing their plans, a sign that the extremist tactics were not having much of an impact.