ISIL is prime suspect in Ankara bombing, says Turkey PM

The Turkish prime minister has called for three days of national mourning and urged the country to fight terrorism, adding that two men were arrested in connection with Saturday’s explosions.

They arrived in a convoy of cars bearing their countries flags.

“This attack will not turn Turkey into a Syria”, he said.

It is a more serious assessment than one from the Turkish government, which said 95 people were dead and 160 others were injured, including 65 in critical condition.

“The killer state wil be held to account!” they chanted.

“This is an attack on the whole of Turkey”. Violence has escalated sharply in Turkey, with the PKK stepping up attacks on security forces.

“Stay away from crowds and large gatherings and any sort of demonstration”, it advised.

September: The Turkish army says the PKK killed 16 of its soldiers, and Ankara launches a wave of air strikes against PKK strongholds in northern Iraq in response.

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.

Davutoglu also said that Turkey is “close” to identifying two suicide bombers who killed 97 people in Ankara on Saturday.

Ahmet Davutoglu said evidence point to “a certain group” which refused to identify in a group interview on Monday. Security forces are reportedly investigating the possible involvement of the elder brother of Sheikh Abdurrahman Alagoz, the Suruç bomber.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday’s bombing, the worst of its kind on Turkish soil, was meant to influence the outcome of November polls Erdogan hopes will restore the AK party he founded to an overall parliamentary majority. He did not elaborate.

Though no group has claimed responsibility for the deadly weekend bombings in Ankara, the focus of the investigation is the Islamic extremist group ISIS, Turkey’s Prime Minister said Monday.

Yeni Safak, a newspaper close to the government, on Monday reported that investigators were testing DNA samples from the families of 20 Turks they believe belong to ISIL.

The funerals were due to be attended by Selahattin Demirtas, leader of the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) which says it was the target of the bombings and has blamed President Tayyip Erdogan and the government.

Denying the allegations, the government said that the attack could have been carried out by the Islamic State, Kurdish militants or radical leftist groups.