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Turkey launches airstrikes on Kurdish positions after Ankara bombing | Turkey launches airstrikes on Kurdish positions after Ankara bombing |
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Turkey has launched overnight air strikes on Kurdish rebel camps in northern Iraq after a car bomb in Ankara killed at least 28 people. | |
Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's Prime Minister, has announced members of the Kurdish YPG militia group based in Syria were responsible for the rush hour attack. | |
Mr Davutoglu said YPG had worked alongside the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey, BBC reports. | |
The vehicle filled with explosives was detonated as military buses passed by. | The vehicle filled with explosives was detonated as military buses passed by. |
In a statement a few hours after the blast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "Turkey will not shy away from using its right to self-defence at any time, any place or any occasion. | In a statement a few hours after the blast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "Turkey will not shy away from using its right to self-defence at any time, any place or any occasion. |
"Our determination to retaliate to these attacks, in Turkey and abroad, which aim at our unity, togetherness and future, is increasing with such actions." | "Our determination to retaliate to these attacks, in Turkey and abroad, which aim at our unity, togetherness and future, is increasing with such actions." |
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack which took place near the parliament and military headquarters. | No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack which took place near the parliament and military headquarters. |
The co-leader of the PKK umbrella group, Cemil Bayik, said he did not know who was responsible but the attack could be a response to "massacres in Kurdistan", referring to the Kurdish region covering parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. | The co-leader of the PKK umbrella group, Cemil Bayik, said he did not know who was responsible but the attack could be a response to "massacres in Kurdistan", referring to the Kurdish region covering parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. |
According to the Firat news agency, Bayik said:"We don't know who did this. But it could be an act of retaliation for the massacres in Kurdistan." | According to the Firat news agency, Bayik said:"We don't know who did this. But it could be an act of retaliation for the massacres in Kurdistan." |