Turkish prime minister says Islamic State is prime suspect in Ankara bombing

Davutoglu has said recently that would-be suicide bombers have been arrested crossing into Turkey from Iraq, where the PKK has bases.

But opponents of President Tayyip Erdogan’s continue to blame the government for the attack, accusing the state of, at best, intelligence failings and at worst complicity by stirring up nationalist, anti-Kurdish sentiment.

The chant of “killer state you will pay for this” rose in the air.

The Turkish government raised the death toll in Saturday’s attack to 97, including one Palestinian.

No group has claimed any responsibility for the bombing yet.

On Monday, a twelve-year-old girl died in Diyarbakir’s Sur district after being wounded during an attack on security forces by PKK fighters, a statement from the Diyarbakir governor’s office said. You should avoid any demonstrations or large gatherings in Turkey and remain extra vigilant.

Mourners took to the streets of Istanbul, Ankara and other Turkish cities on Monday, two days after the attack at an Ankara peace rally claimed at least 97 lives.

PKK has been fighting the Turkish government for an autonomous region in the country’s southeast.

Seibert said the visit will focus on the countries’ “common fight against terrorism”, the situation in Syria and dealing with migrant crisis.

The European Union officials were supposed to negotiate further on an action plan the Commission would like Turkey to carry out to help Europe stem the flow of migrants.

Not specifically identifying any group behind the act, Davutoglu said, “We investigate Daesh (ISIS) as our No. 1 priority”.

The Haberturk newspaper has cited police sources as saying the type of explosive and the choice of target pointed to a group within Islamic State known as the “Adiyaman ones”, a reverence to Adiyaman province in southeastern Turkey.

The weekend blasts targeted crowds at a lunchtime peace rally calling for an end to the renewed conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and the Turkish government. He did not elaborate.

The scale of the attacks was bigger than the one in 2003, which was blamed on al-Qaeda, when two synagogues, the Istanbul HSBC Bank headquarters and the British consulate were hit, killing 62 people. Speaking on top of a bus at the rally in Ankara on Sunday, Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of the Kurdish-dominated Peoples’ Democratic Party, said that 128 people had been killed.

Turkish authorities say police have detained four suspected Islamic State militants in a raid in the southern city of Adana.