“It looks like the bomber was Abdulbaki Somer, that’s what the report is saying”, the official said.
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Kurtulmus said Ankara had reservations concerning actions which Russian forces could take against Syria’s moderate opposition and civilians.
The Turkish authorities initially said the suicide bomber was a Syrian citizen but later acknowledged Somer was the likely attacker, while insisting he had spent time in northern Syria.
The recent move by Turkey to strike Kurds in Syria may help fix the rift between the USA and Russian Federation.
It added that the Syrian government accepts the deal on the basis that military efforts against Daesh Takfiri terrorists and the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front group continue.
The next day, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed a Syrian Kurdish YPG militia fighter working with Kurdish militants inside Turkey for the attack, naming him as Salih Necar, born in 1992, and from the Hasakah region of northern Syria.
The cease-fire was scheduled to start a week later, but did not take effect.
But the radical Turkey-based Kurdish group that claimed the attack said the bomber was a Turkish Kurd, an assertion supported by DNA tests.
“Besides, cross border sources of terrorism and threats of these sources on Turkey were also talked about”, he said.
“Turkey shall not act alone, nor alone with Saudi Arabia”.
He said the Syrian opposition, which said on Saturday it had agreed to the “possibility” of a temporary truce, would meet in Riyadh on Tuesday. We have always said so, and other countries such as Saudi Arabia, have said the same thing: “there is absolutely no chance of carrying out this sort of operation in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, but if we want to enter Syria from the ground, we need to do so together” like a coalition, Mr Gentiloni told Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
The U.N. special envoy for Syria says deadly weekend bombings in Homs and a Damascus suburb claimed by the Islamic State group suggest it is feeling “cornered” amid an intensified diplomatic push to end the country’s five-year war.
Thomson ReutersSaudi Press Agency handout photo shows troops arriving to participate in joint military exercises in Hafr Al-BatinRIYADH (Reuters) – The Middle East’s largest ever war games are now underway and will boost military cooperation between the 20 Muslim nations taking part, host country Saudi Arabia said on Monday, as it seeks to check the growing influence of arch rival Iran.
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The Observatory tracks Syria’s civil war.
