Correction to Article on Turkey Attacks

An article that was published in this space on Sept. 1, 2006, analyzing the late-August attacks in Istanbul, Marmaris and Antalya, Turkey, did not correctly report the likely origin of those attacks. Rather than "Islamic extremists," as the piece had stated, the Kurdistan Liberation Hawks, reportedly an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party, claimed responsibility for the attacks. The Kurdistan Workers Party is a Kurdish nationalist and Marxist-Leninist group and has little in common with Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda.

Because information about the origin of the attacks was reported prior to the publication of the story, World Politics Review made the decision to immediately remove the story from the site. We sincerely regret our error and thank the World Politics Review members who alerted us to the mistake in the comments section for this article.

We want our readers to know that this kind of mistake is unacceptable, and we will strive to make sure such errors remain as anomalies in an otherwise accurate and reliable body of reporting.