A vehicle laden with explosives was detonated next to military buses as they waited at traffic lights in the administrative heart of Ankara on Wednesday. Turkey views the YPG as a terror group because of its affiliation with the PKK.
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The TAK also vowed to destroy Turkey’s tourism as it warned foreigners and Turkish citizens away from “touristic areas”.
In fact, it has become even more chaotic as some rebel groups backed by the United States are now attacking each other.
Turkey also has concerns that the PKK is being given support by the Syrian Kurdish militia in its battle with security forces in south-east Turkey.
The overnight strikes targeted a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) camp in Haftanin, Iraq, after Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in collaboration with the PKK for the bombing.
With respect to the cross-border tensions, we asked the YPG to show restraint.
“The military says its convoy was hit by an explosion outside Diyarbakir, the largest city in the southeast”, Peter says.
Labour MEP Alfred Sant has added his name to a petition by a group of members of the European Parliament calling on the European Union to remove the PKK from the list of terrorist organisations. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Neccar was born in the mostly Kurdish Syrian town of Amouda, near the Turkish border, according to Mr Davutoglu. However, Davutoglu said that did not rule out the responsibility of the YPG, calling the TAK a “proxy” that claimed the bombing to shield the worldwide reputation of the Syrian Kurdish fighters.
“The worldwide community was making some calls to stop this shelling and I really hope that they are seeing right now why we were doing this”, Sert said. “It has been revealed that the extensions of this attack are both inside- and outside-linked”.
As conflicts between the Turks and Kurds heat up, the United States risks bringing to Turkey, its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally, the kind of chaos that prevails in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
The recent suicide bombing was the second bombing in the capital in four months.
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Mevlut Cavusoglu said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had told him the Kurdish insurgents could not be trusted, in what Cavusoglu said was a departure from Washington’s official position.
