Four teenagers were wounded when a homemade bomb accidentally exploded in the main Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, a local security source said.

An 18-year-old man transporting the bomb for an alleged attack on behalf of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) lost his hands in the explosion, the source said.

Egypt's interim government voiced "strong resentment" on Tuesday at comments by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan backing ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.

The foreign ministry expressed "strong resentment at comments like these, which... represent a clear intervention in internal Egyptian affairs," its spokesman Badr Abdelatty said.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that ousted Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi was the only legitimate president of Egypt in an interview with a Turkish newspaper.

"Currently, my president in Egypt is Morsi because he was elected by the people," he told the pro-government Today's Zaman. "If we don't judge the situation like that it is tantamount to ignoring the Egyptian people," he added.

Turkey will be held accountable for any harm incurred by the Lebanese pilgrims held in Syria's Aazaz region, said Sheikh Abbas Zgheib, who has been tasked by the Higher Islamic Shiite Council to follow up on the case of the pilgrims.

He said in a statement: “Hizbullah and Iran have nothing to do with the negotiations between the regime and the kidnappers.”

Turkish riot police on Saturday fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters trying to enter an Istanbul square that was the cradle of deadly unrest that engulfed the country in June.

The police moved in when demonstrators protesting in the city's Beyoglu neighborhood against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan moved toward nearby Taksim Square.

Turkey's highest court on Saturday allowed a Kurdish couple the right to name their daughter "Kurdistan", a word historically banned because it was considered seditious, local media said.

Turkish news agency Dogan said the appeals court overturned a lower court's decision to bar Yunus and Elif Toprak's from naming their daughter after the region Kurds consider to be their ethnic homeland.

A leading Turkish union involved in fierce anti-government protests that have rocked Turkey on Thursday accused the ruling party of a "witch hunt" after a law was introduced to curb its powers.

Under legislation pushed through earlier this week by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party, the Turkish Union of Chambers of Architects and Engineers (TMMOB) will lose its authority to approve urban planning projects.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), engaged in a fragile peace process with the Turkish government after nearly three decades of conflict, has named a hardline party veteran as its new political leader, local media reported Thursday.

Cemil Bayik, one of the founders of the group which has fought a 29-year nationalist campaign against Ankara, is a close ally of its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan, and is known for his hawkish rhetoric against the government.

Activist Alaa Morelli escaped the worst in Syrian prisons, but to secure her freedom she lied during a forced "confession" on state television, saying the uprising was the work of foreigners.

A student of Latakia university located on Syria's Mediterranean coastline, Morelli, 23, was arrested on June 12 last year, just after sitting one of her second-year exams.

Turkish riot police on Monday fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon to block demonstrators from entering a small Istanbul park, the birthplace of deadly unrest that engulfed the country last month.

Police moved after Turkish authorities reopened Gezi Park to public use earlier in the day.