Kurdish splinter group claims Turkey blast

The Anadolu news agency said authorities have taken 17 people into custody as part of the investigation into Wednesday’s suicide auto bombing, which targeted buses carrying military personnel.

Davutoglu called on the United States to end its co-operation with the YPG and list it as a terrorist group.

Turkey outlawed and has for decades been fighting the PKK, which operates in northern Iraq and southern Turkey and wants Kurdish autonomy from Ankara.

Due to their affiliation to the PKK, the PYD and YPG are considered to terrorist groups by Turkey, but not the United States.

Kirby said the USA understands and appreciates the concerns that the Turkish Government continues to express about these groups, and we’re going to continue to have that conversation with them.

Also on Saturday, Erdoğan’s spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said the U.S. administration can not see the whole picture on Syria.

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

It said that the attack was carried out in revenge for the killing of “vulnerable people” who were hiding in basements during a two-month Turkish military operation against the PKK in the southeastern town of Cizre.

The United States needs to think long and hard about its role in this conflict, given the military aid it provides the Kurds in Iraq and Syria.

Davutoglu, accompanied by other ministers, placed 28 carnations at the site of the attack Friday in honor of the dead. Turkey, fearful such action might stoke separatist sentiment among Turkish Kurds, has responded by firing artillery shells at the militia across the border.

The U.S. has neither confirmed nor denied the YPG’s responsibility for Wednesday’s deadly terror attack in Ankara.

The Turkish government has lashed out at its western allies, foremost the USA, over their refusal to designate the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) and its armed wing, the YPG, as a terrorist organization.

The death toll of a auto bomb that exploded in Turkey has risen to 28 people, with another 60 injured.

Mevlut Cavusoglu said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had told him the Kurdish insurgents could not be trusted, in what Cavusoglu said was a departure from Washington’s official position.