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Turkish PM says ISIL is focus of bombing probe
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Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday, Islamic State is the focus of investigations into a twin suicide bombing that killed at least 97 people in the Turkish capital Ankara and investigators are close to identifying one of the suspects. Spe Wochit
A woman waits in an area allocated for families outside of a forensic morgue, as she waits for the body of a relative, on October 11, 2015 in Ankara.(Photo: OZAN KOSE, AFP/Getty Images)
The Islamic State group is the “No. 1 priority” in the investigation into twin bombings that killed nearly 100 people in the Turkish capital, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday.
The premier told private broadcaster NTV that authorities were close to identifying the two suicide bombers who carried out the attacks in Ankara on Saturday. He declined to name the organization behind them, but said the focus is on the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
Yeni Safak, a newspaper close to the government, on Monday reported that investigators were testing DNA samples from the families of 20 Turks they believe belong to ISIL.
The Hurriyet newspaper said the type of device and explosives used in Saturday's attacks were the same as those used in a suicide bombing the government says ISIL committed near the town of Suruc, which borders Syria, that killed 33 peace activists in July.
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Two bomb explosions targeted a peace rally by leftist and Kurdish activists in the Turkish capital of Ankara Saturday, killing dozens and wounding more than 180, the country's health minister said. (Oct. 10) AP
The Turkish government raised the death toll in the Ankara blasts from 95 to at least 97 late Sunday and said the victims include a Palestinian. The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said that up to 128 people died in the attacks, which happened during a peace rally near Ankara's central train station.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the bombings. Davutoglu has previously suggested that the attack could have been carried out by ISIL, Kurdish militants or radical leftist groups.
More than 40 suspected ISIL militants have now been detained in four cities but it is not clear if the arrests are linked to Saturday's bombings, the Associated Press reported.
On Sunday, the Turkish military carried out airstrikes on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in the southeast of the country and in northern Iraq after rejecting a ceasefire announced by the PKK on Saturday. The Anadolu agency reported that up to 35 PKK militants were killed. The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey and the U.S.
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Turkish PM says ISIL is focus of bombing probe
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Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday, Islamic State is the focus of investigations into a twin suicide bombing that killed at least 97 people in the Turkish capital Ankara and investigators are close to identifying one of the suspects. Spe Wochit
A woman waits in an area allocated for families outside of a forensic morgue, as she waits for the body of a relative, on October 11, 2015 in Ankara.(Photo: OZAN KOSE, AFP/Getty Images)
The Islamic State group is the “No. 1 priority” in the investigation into twin bombings that killed nearly 100 people in the Turkish capital, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday.
The premier told private broadcaster NTV that authorities were close to identifying the two suicide bombers who carried out the attacks in Ankara on Saturday. He declined to name the organization behind them, but said the focus is on the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
Yeni Safak, a newspaper close to the government, on Monday reported that investigators were testing DNA samples from the families of 20 Turks they believe belong to ISIL.
The Hurriyet newspaper said the type of device and explosives used in Saturday's attacks were the same as those used in a suicide bombing the government says ISIL committed near the town of Suruc, which borders Syria, that killed 33 peace activists in July.
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Two bomb explosions targeted a peace rally by leftist and Kurdish activists in the Turkish capital of Ankara Saturday, killing dozens and wounding more than 180, the country's health minister said. (Oct. 10) AP
The Turkish government raised the death toll in the Ankara blasts from 95 to at least 97 late Sunday and said the victims include a Palestinian. The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said that up to 128 people died in the attacks, which happened during a peace rally near Ankara's central train station.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the bombings. Davutoglu has previously suggested that the attack could have been carried out by ISIL, Kurdish militants or radical leftist groups.
More than 40 suspected ISIL militants have now been detained in four cities but it is not clear if the arrests are linked to Saturday's bombings, the Associated Press reported.
On Sunday, the Turkish military carried out airstrikes on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in the southeast of the country and in northern Iraq after rejecting a ceasefire announced by the PKK on Saturday. The Anadolu agency reported that up to 35 PKK militants were killed. The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey and the U.S.
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