TURKEY IN TURMOIL: Airstrikes launched as desperate country loses grip on order
TURKEY has launched airstrikes against Kurdish groups in Iraq, which it fears was behind Sunday’s bomb blast in Ankara which killed at least 37 people.
No organisation has claimed responsibility for the car bomb, but Turkey believes it was the PKK – Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
Eleven warplanes have hit 18 targets in camps belonging to the PKK in northern Iraq.
At the same time a curfew is being imposed in the Turkish town of Sirnak, in the southeast of the country, in order to conduct operations against Kurdish militants there, officials said.The PKK is considered by Turkey to be a terrorist group. It has yet to confirm or deny its involvement in Sunday’s attack on a crowded transport hub.
The the second terror attack in Ankara in a month also injured more than 125 people.
Turkey has been struggling to contain an upswell of violence and terrorism in the face of attacks in the Turkish capital and Istanbul, as well as Islamic State activity over the last year.
Two attackers, a man and a woman, were believed to be behind yesterday’s attack.
Ambulances rushed to the scene of the explosion
Family members and relatives of car bombing victim Murat Gul mourn over a coffin holding his body
Forensic services and firemen work around burnt out taxi vehicles after the blast
The woman, whose severed hand was found 300 metres from the blast site, was a member of the outlawed PKK.
The explosives were the same kind as those used in a February 17 attack that killed 29 people.
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