Turkey bombs Syrian Kurds after attack

The situation is complicated by Syrian Kurdish militia groups in Iraq and Syria who have been fighting Islamic State, or ISIL, militants alongside the United States and its allies.

Speaking today, Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said that a Syrian national with links to these Kurdish organizations – the PKK and the YPG (which is active in Syria) – carried out the suicide bombing. The group is “responsible for multiple terrorist attacks in Turkey, which targeted tourist locations, military sites, and government buildings, resulting in several deaths”, according to the USA government.

Turkey also has concerns that the PKK is being given support by the Syrian Kurdish militia in its battle with security forces in south-east Turkey.

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

The president of the UN General Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft, on Thursday strongly condemned Wednesday’s deadly terrorist bomb attack in Ankara, the capital of Turkey.

The Turkish Army shelled YPG positions in northern Syria on Thursday, a Turkish security source told Reuters.

Cavusoglu says John Kerry made the statement in a phone call to the Minister yesterday in which Kerry expressed his condolences for the 28 killed in a terrorist attack in Ankara.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said on Wednesday that 14 suspects had been detained.

Ties between Turkey and Russian Federation have broken down since Ankara downed one of Moscow’s fighter jets along its border with Syria in November. He continues the bombing of the Kurdish population, as the Kurds could pose a serious threat to him, as he believes.

European Union leaders also condemned the bombing of Syrian towns and called for an end to bombing in civilian areas near Aleppo and Syria’s border with Turkey.

Turkish armed forces have been shelling Kurdish positions in Syria since last weekend, and Erdogan’s aides have said a ground invasion of Syria is the only way to stop the war, but the message is not resonating with Turkey’s North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies – especially the United States, which has angered Erdogan. The Turkish military stated that a high-level meeting of PKK members was taking place at the time, adding that the strikes had killed around 70 people.

However, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), which is a Kurdish militant group once linked to the PKK, claimed responsibility for the bomb attack.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that attacks killed two people and injured others in northern Syria.

People pray at a funeral for eight victims of the February 17 vehicle bombing at the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, Turkey.