The main accusations against the Kurdish groups came Thursday from Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who said, “YPG is a pawn of the Syrian regime and the regime is directly responsible for the Ankara attack”.
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No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but various security sources indicate that possible suspects include ISIS and the PKK, the Kurdish militant separatist faction that Turkey recognizes as a terrorist group, according to Today’s Zaman.
Turkey accuses several of its enemies of carrying out a deadly suicide bombing in Ankara.
“We have maximized the security measures in Istanbul”, he said.
Kurdish rebels, the Islamic State group and a leftist extremist group have carried out attacks in the country recently.
There were also reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights of hundreds of militants crossing the Turkish border into Syria on Wednesday.
The Turkish jets attacked PKK positions in northern Iraq’s Haftanin region, hitting the rebels, which it said included a number of senior PKK leaders.
AHRAR AL-SHAM: An ultraconservative group in Syria that enjoys the support of Turkey in its fight against the Assad government.
Turkey is alarmed that the YPG now controls much of the Syrian border with Turkey and is essentially creating a state within a state.
Turkish artillery shelled positions of Kurdish fighters in Syria for the fifth day in a row on Wednesday. Both Erdogan and Davutoglu have called on the United States to cut ties with the insurgents.
Authorities have detained 14 people in connection with the attacks and were trying to identify others.
BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that it’s in Germany’s national interest for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union, and she also pressed her fellow European leaders to work with Turkey to curb the migrant influx. It said he had been registered as a refugee in Turkey.
Washington also condemned the attack, according to a statement by Mark Toner, deputy spokesman of the U.S. State Department.
In a statement reacting to this week’s Ankara bombing, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that “there’s no justification for barbaric crime”.
Tensions have steadily increased between Turkey and the PKK since a two-and-a-half year long ceasefire ended last July.
The airstrikes followed a terrorist attack which hit military-owned vehicles in central Ankara on Wednesday evening, killing at least 28 people and wounding 61 more.
“We have never heard of this person Salih Necar”, said Muslim.
News reports said some cars caught fire and dozens of ambulances were sent to the scene.
However, Cemil Bayik did not rule out the possibility that rogue Kurdish militants, angered by Turkish military operations in the country’s southeast, may have been behind the attack Wednesday that targeted buses carrying military members.
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The military added that it condemned the “contemptible and dastardly” attack. “Davutoglu is preparing for something else because they are shelling us as you know for the past week”, he told Reuters.
