• The explosion in the center of Ankara
• A representative of the Turkish security forces: are killed and wounded
• Reuters: there was a suicide bombing
• So far, no one confessed to the attack
• Preliminary findings show the illegal Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
Earlier, the governor of Ankara gave the message that the deaths of 27 people. Interior Minister of Turkey Efkan Ala said that the attack was carried out with the car landed explosives. He added that the hospital stays 125 injured, condition of 19 of them is serious.
How to inform the Turkish media, a court in Istanbul decided to block Turkey access to portals Facebook and Twitter and some other websites. It happened after this, when people began to publish online photos of the place of the tragedy. Last year, the Turkish authorities blocked access to Twitter after the photo was placed on the public prosecutor’s office has been held by the radical left-wing militia.
Sunday’s “explosion was caused by a vehicle filled with explosives” – said the governor of Ankara. According to the media car exploded near a bus stop and a police station.
According to the representative of the Turkish security forces after an explosion was heard gunfire. Witnesses reported that smoke hovering over the scene of the explosion was visible from a distance of about 2.5 km.
According to NTV square Kizilay you see a lot of wrecks of burned cars. In place you sent ambulances and police cars – the wounded were taken to 10 hospitals.
So far, no one confessed to the attack. Turkish authorities say that preliminary findings show the illegal Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) or its related group as on the perpetrators. “According to preliminary findings of an attack could be carried out PKK or any organization associated with it” – he told Reuters the representative of the Turkish authorities.
For the latest act of terror occurred at Kizilay Square, which is one of the main hubs of the Turkish capital, near the park Guven. Less than a month ago, a few streets away in a similar terrorist attack killed 29 people.
In the vicinity of the attack are within the court premises and the ministries of justice and internal affairs. When the explosion occurred before the hour. 19 local time (before the hour. 18 in Poland), the area was full of people. According to the newspaper “Hurriyet” preventively evacuated after the explosion Kizilay Square, as authorities feared a second attack.
TV stations CNN Turk and NTV reported that a court in Ankara ordered the blockage in Turkey access to Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites after they appeared on their pictures on the attack.
The Sunday explosion occurred less than a month after the assassination of the car bomb, which killed 29 people. Feb. 17 near the headquarters of the military command, the parliament and government buildings in Ankara attacked a convoy of military vehicles. To assassinate admitted organization Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), linked to the banned Turkey Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
From June 2015. The jihadist Islamic State has conducted at least four bombings in Turkey, including in Ankara and Istanbul. Local jihadi groups and left-wing radicals also in the past, the attacks in the country.
Turkey, a NATO member, is facing numerous threats to their security. Country belongs to the US-led coalition to combat IS in Syria and Iraq. He fights also in its own grounds in the south-eastern part of the PKK militants. In July last year broke up the conversation and was broken truce between militants of the PKK and Turkish security forces.
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