17 detained in Turkey for links to bus attack
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TURKEY has detained three more suspects over the attack on a convoy of military buses in Ankara that killed 28 people, prosecutors said yesterday, adding that the case was almost solved.
The government has blamed a Syrian Kurdish group classified as a terror organization by Ankara as well as homegrown Kurdish militants for the car bombing on Wednesday in the heart of the Turkish capital.
A total of 17 suspects have been detained after nationwide raids in the wake of the attack, with one more still on the run, the official Anatolia news agency said, quoting Ankara prosecutors.
“The case has almost been solved. State officials will soon make the necessary announcements,” Ankara chief prosecutor Harun Kodalak was quoted as saying.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu laid carnations yesterday in memory of the victims at the site of the blast in an area housing a string of public institutions including parliament and the army headquarters.
Davutoglu and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan both said the attack was a joint operation of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in cooperation with the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
The focus on the Syrian Kurdish fighters is threatening an open dispute with Turkey’s NATO ally the United States, which classifies the PKK as a terror group but works with the YPG as an effective force in the fight against jihadists in Syria.
The Anatolia report said investigators were focusing on the links of those detained to the PKK. It said the raids took place in cities from Izmir on the Aegean to Diyarbakir in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
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