A mayor belonging to Turkey's ruling AK Party was seriously wounded in a gun attack in northwest Turkey Wednesday, a hospital official and local media said, less than three weeks ahead of a parliamentary election. The private Dogan news agency said Cuneyt Yildiz, mayor of the Gursu district of Bursa province, was shot in his office and that a member of the municipality staff suspected in the shooting had fled the scene. Yildiz's bodyguard was also wounded in the attack and the two were being treated in a nearby hospital, according to broadcaster CNN Turk. The motive for the attack was not immediately clear. Tensions have risen in Turkey ahead of the June 7 election, which the AK Party founded by President Tayyip Erdogan is on course to win comfortably. On Monday, simultaneous bomb blasts hit the offices of a pro-Kurdish party in two cities in southern Turkey, wounding six people.
