{"id":319465,"date":"2016-02-18T11:33:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T11:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/ankara-blast-syria-kurds-to-blame-turkey-pm\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T11:33:04","slug":"ankara-blast-syria-kurds-to-blame-turkey-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/02\/18\/ankara-blast-syria-kurds-to-blame-turkey-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankara blast: Syria Kurds to blame \u2013 Turkey PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/download-2-e1455746949996.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"70\">\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey\u2019s prime minister says the deadly bombing in Ankara was carried out by Kurdish YPG militia based in Syria, and nine people have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmet Davutoglu said the fighters worked in co-operation with militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey carried out strikes on PKK forces in north Iraq late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, a military convoy in south-east in Turkey has been hit by a bomb, killing at least six troops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The blast happened on a highway between the towns of Diyarbakir and Bingol.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Turkey v Islamic State v the Kurds: What\u2019s going on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Davutoglu said 26 of the 28 people killed in the bombing of a military convoy in the capital Ankara on Wednesday were soldiers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He named the Ankara bomber as Salih Necar, a Syrian national and member of the Syrian Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA direct link between the attack and the YPG has been established,\u201d he said. He went on to say the attack was carried out with logistical support from PKK militants inside Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey considers the YPG a terrorist group, but its allies, including the United States, back the YPG, in its fight against so-called Islamic State (IS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Davutolgu said the bombing in Ankara proved the YPG is a terrorist group, and said he expects co-operation from Turkey\u2019s allies in tackling them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Turkey\u2019s prime minister says the deadly bombing in Ankara was carried out by Kurdish YPG militia based in Syria, and nine people have been arrested. 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Turkey carried out strikes on PKK forces in north Iraq [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ankara blast: Syria Kurds to blame \u2013 Turkey PM - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/02\/18\/ankara-blast-syria-kurds-to-blame-turkey-pm\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ankara blast: Syria Kurds to blame \u2013 Turkey PM - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"[ad_1] Turkey\u2019s prime minister says the deadly bombing in Ankara was carried out by Kurdish YPG militia based in Syria, and nine people have been arrested. 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