It says a security official described the suspected second bomber as a male Turkish citizen with PKK links.
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Both the USA and Turkey have generally good relations with the Kurds in northern Iraq; Monday’s airstrikes in northern Iraq targeted PKK bases rather than installations of the Iraqi Kurds.
Eleven warplanes carried out air strikes on 18 targets including ammunition dumps and shelters in the Qandil and Gara sectors, the army said.
A auto bomb exploded in Ankara on March 13, near a crowded bus stop.
That attack was claimed by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), linked to the PKK, as revenge for Turkish military operations in the southeast. A senior government official told The As…
No group has admitted carrying out the attack, but government sources are casting suspicion on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The United States condemned the attack, saying in a White House National Security Council statement: “This horrific act is only the most recent of many terrorist attacks perpetrated against the Turkish people”.
At least 69 people were detained in connection with the incident, local media reported.
Last October, more than 100 people were killed in a double-suicide bombing at a Kurdish peace rally in Ankara.
The body of one attacker had been found, he said, indicating that there might have been two.
The condition of nine people are still critical.
A man holds a banner showing former Polish President Lech Walesa as he takes part in a march demanding the government to respect the country’s constitution in front of the Constitutional Court, in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, March 12, 2016.
“We do not deserve this intolerable situation where parents are burying their children Turkey is not well governed but some people are turning a blind eye”, he said.
In its armed campaign in Turkey, the PKK has historically struck directly at the security forces and says it does not target civilians.
The war between the PKK and the Turkish state has been going on since 1984 and has so far claimed over 40,000 lives.
Authorities on Monday announced another curfew, to go into effect at 2100 GMT (5 p.m. EDT) in the city of Sirnak, near the border with Iraq, signaling that the military was also preparing to battle Kurdish militants there.
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Turkey has in recent months waged an all-out assault on the PKK, which launched an insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984, fighting for greater autonomy and rights for the country’s largest ethnic minority.
