Three killed in Ankara car bomb attack

Sep 20, 2011

Istanbul - A car bomb in the Turkish capital Ankara killed three people and injured 15 more, state TRT Haber TV news channel reported Tuesday.

TRT cited a state prosecutor as confirming that the explosion had been caused by a bomb and had launched an investigation.

Other reports claimed that a woman was arrested close to the scene of the explosion.
Footage showed smashed shop windows and a group of parked cars burning as well as a number of injured people being evacuated by ambulance.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul, who was visiting Osnabrueck on an official state visit to Germany, described the explosion as a 'terrorist attack' and said, 'I utterly condemn this.' He expressed his condolences to the victims.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Turkey has previously experienced bomb attacks by Kurdish separatist groups, left wing groups and Islamic extremist groups.

However responsibility for most recent incidents has been claimed by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) a Marxist separatist group which has for the past 30 years been conducting a violent insurrection in south east Turkey aimed at establishing a separate Kurdish state.

Turkish war planes last month bombed PKK bases in northern Iraq following a number of clashes which left more than 20 Turkish soldiers dead.

Source: Monsters and Critics.
Link: http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1664027.php/Three-killed-in-Ankara-car-bomb-attack.