A radical Kurdish group with ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK yesterday claimed the deadly suicide car bomb attack that killed 35 people in Ankara last weekend
�On the evening of March 13, a suicide attack was carried out... in the streets of the capital of the fascist Turkish republic. We claim this attack,�the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) said in a statement on their website.
Ankara: A radical Kurdish group with ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK yesterday claimed the deadly suicide car bomb attack that killed 35 people in Ankara last weekend.
“On the evening of March 13, a suicide attack was carried out... in the streets of the capital of the fascist Turkish republic. We claim this attack,” the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons TAK said in a statement on their website. Pic/AFP
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“On the evening of March 13, a suicide attack was carried out... in the streets of the capital of the fascist Turkish republic. We claim this attack,” the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons TAK said in a statement on their website. The group said it was a response to security operations carried out by Turkish forces in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of the country.
Kurdistan Freedom Falcons released this picture of a female bomber named Seher Cagla Demi, saying she was a suicide bomber in the Ankara attack.
Sunday’s attack came three weeks after a similar car bombing in Ankara that killed 29 people, also claimed by TAK. In the immediate aftermath of the latest bombing, the Turkish authorities pointed the finger at the PKK, against whom Ankara has waged a relentless assault since late last year.
The government said one of the bombers was a woman in her mid-20s affiliated with the PKK and trained in Syria by the People’s Protection Units YPG, a Kurdish militia group the Turkish military shelled for several days in February. Authorities detained 11 people over the attack, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, while Turkish jets bombed PKK targets in northern Iraq just hours after the blast.
40,000 The number of lives PKK’s war with the Turkish state has claimed since 1984.
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