Erdoğan blames Syrian Kurdish PYD for Ankara bombing; separate blast kills 6

The Turkey-based group is an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

In an interview published late Thursday on the Swedish daily’s website, he said, “We need real talks about peace, not just talks about talks”.

Turkey has always been pressing, with limited success, for a safe zone inside Syria free from IS militants and YPG militia to house Syrian refugees.

Turkey, Saudi Arabia and certain Western European countries want troops deployed on the ground in Syria, as Russian-backed advances have exacerbated tensions on the Turkey-Syria border. After the war in Syria started, the YPG largely concentrated its efforts on fighting the Islamic State group, leading to charges from Turkey that it is allied with Syrian government.

The emergency Security Council meeting came as US Secretary of State John Kerry warned there was “a lot more work to do” for a ceasefire to take hold in Syria, following talks in Geneva between American and Russian officials.

“It has been determined with certainty that this attack was carried out by members of the separatist terror organisation together with a member of the YPG who infiltrated from Syria”, Mr Davutoglu said, identifying the bomber as a Syrian man named Salih Neccar who was born in 1992.

“We don’t know who did this”.

SDF has become one of the most effective forces fighting IS and the capture of Shaddadeh boosts the group’s image as a faction fighting the extremists.

Ankara appears increasingly uneasy over the group’s recent gains across its border and has continued to shell the militia despite global calls for it to stop.

SDF is dominated by the main Kurdish militia, known as the YPG.

Turkey accuses several of its enemies of carrying out a suicide bombing in Ankara that killed at least 28 people.

He said that unlike the PKK, which tends to carry out attacks in southeast Turkey, TAK is committed to operations in urban areas. On Wednesday, the alliance launched an offensive to try to reach Shaddadeh, a major ISIL stronghold in Syria’s northeastern Hassakeh province.

Turkey, unlike the United States, is well aware that the PYD and the PKK is a terrorist organization, said the president, adding that the fact that the USA does not recognize the PYD as a terrorist organization, is very upsetting for Turkey.