DNA report suggests Ankara bomber was Turkish -security official

He said that terrorism in Turkey and developments within the scope of counter terrorism and the developments around Turkey were discussed during the meeting.

He warned that Turkey could carry on shelling targets of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) armed group inside Syria, and would continue “if necessary” to hit back at incoming fire from the neighbouring country even after the truce comes into force on February 27. Igor Konashenkov, said Tuesday the center is located at Syria’s Hemeimeem air base hosting Russian warplanes.

He told El Pais his troops were now close to fully controlling the northern city of Aleppo and were advancing towards the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stronghold of Raqqa province.

Of course, Turkey has the option of giving up on its “regime-change” approach toward Damascus that has so far yielded no tangible benefits to Ankara, save some 2.5 million refugees and the endemic acts of terrorism in the once cheery peaceful Turkey.

Turkey said on Tuesday that it welcomes the plan but is not optimistic about a positive outcome to talks on a political transition.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spoken about a new cease-fire for Syria set to take effect Saturday.

But the radical Turkey-based Kurdish group that claimed the attack said the bomber was a Turkish Kurd, an assertion supported by DNA tests. “There is the need for a strategy together with air-raids, a ground effort is needed” said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu during a press conference with his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni stressing that the idea of a ground-force intervention with Saudi Arabia is “faulty information”.

Saudi Arabia had already said this month it was ready to join any ground operation against Daesh.

The main umbrella for Syrian opposition and rebel groups said late Monday that it “agrees to a temporary truce” as long as the main opposition’s demands are met.

The minister said: “A land operation of Saudi Arabia and Turkey in Syria has never been on the agenda, and it is not on the agenda”.

Spokesman Jens Laerke of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says the deliveries are “underway” to help some 20,000 people in Moadamiyeh and another 10,000 people in Kfar Batna.