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                         Turkey Shooting Leaves 7 Dead

   by Reuters

   A worker at a Turkish statistics office in the eastern province of Kars
   shot dead six people before committing suicide on Wednesday, in what
   local media said appeared to have been a revenge attack over a
   professional dispute.
   Kars Governor Eyup Tepe said the Statistics Institute (TUIK) employee
   had come to the building and had shot dead six staff including the
   regional manager with a Glock pistol. One other employee escaped with
   light injuries.
   "Veysi Erim was working as a sociologist ... and was receiving
   treatment for psychological problems. This horrible incident has no
   connection with terrorism,'' Tepe's office said in a statement on its
   website.
   TUIK confirmed that one of its employees had killed six staff before
   turning the gun on himself but gave no further details. The Hurriyet
   newspaper said Erim had been involved in a professional dispute before
   the shooting.
   Kars is in northeastern Turkey near the Armenian border, where
   militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - branded  a terrorist
   organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union - have
   conducted attacks including kidnappings.
    Political tensions are running high in Turkey ahead of local elections
   on March 30 and amid a corruption scandal dogging Prime Minister Tayyip
   Erdogan's government.
   There have been a series of attacks, including shootings at the local
   offices of political parties, in recent weeks, most of them in
   Istanbul.
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