Six Soldiers Killed in Southeast Turkey Bomb Attack

“We hope that it doesn’t happen”, Lars Bystrom, spokesman form the Stockholm Police said of the risk of further attacks.

The U.S. has rejected Turkish pressure to brand those Kurdish groups as terrorists.

Davutoglu nevertheless said the attack was the result of a collaboration between “the PKK together with a person (Necar) who sneaked into Turkey from Syria”.

Erdogan, Turkey’s president, said Wednesday’s attack demonstrated that there are strong links between the PKK and Syrian Kurd fighters.

After the Iraqi Kurdish autonomy, the second greater threat to Turkey is the formation of Rojava in northern Syria.

Davutoglu said he also held embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad responsible because Assad and his government have acknowledged on a number of occasions that they provide arms to the YPG.

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Turkey has blamed the PKK’s Syrian affiliate Party for Democratic Unity (PYD) and the PYD’s military wing, People’s Protection Forces (YPG), for the attack.

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“If in mid-March the… influx of 1,500-2,000 people a day continues, it will be clear that Turkey has failed to meet its promises and we will need a different way to protect the European border”, Tomas Prouza, the Czech state secretary for EU affairs, said Wednesday.

Six soldiers were killed and another was wounded Thursday in a roadside bombing that hit an armored military vehicle in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakir, Turkey’s semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported, citing a statement from the Turkish General Staff.

Turkey accuses several of its enemies of carrying out a deadly suicide bombing in Ankara.

Turkey has shelled PYD and PKK positions in northern Syria for four consecutive days in retaliation to artillery fire from PYD forces based around Azaz, located in Aleppo’s northern countryside just 6 kilometers (4 miles) from the Turkish border.

Authorities have detained nine people in connection with the attack, he added.

Ankara has been on high alert since October, when 103 people were killed in a suicide attack on a crowd of peace activists, the bloodiest attack in the country’s modern history.

Christians have suffered due to the ongoing clashes between the Turkish army and Kurdish PKK, with northern Iraqi bishops speaking out against Turkey bombing border villages. The victims included both civilians and military personnel.

Ankara has repeatedly asked its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies to declare the YPG a terrorist group and to support Turkey’s fight with the group. The military launched airstrikes Wednesday evening against PKK bases in northern Iraq, reportedly killing 60-70 people, including top leaders. It said he had been registered as a refugee in Turkey.

A government official couldn’t confirm the reports.

The PKK has in the past frequently targeted military convoys and off-duty military personnel and the attacks have intensified as the Turkish military has stepped up its campaign.

The UAE has condemned the terrorist auto bomb attack that targeted military buses near the armed forces’ headquarters, parliament and government buildings in the Turkish capital Ankara.