New Investigation Results Revealed over Ankara Bomb Attack

• 02.24.2016, 10:49
•  Region,  Near East,  World

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Investigation on Ankara bomb attack of February 17, during which about 28 people were killed, goes on. As Turkey’s counterterrorism and intelligence police has revealed the perpetrator of the suicide bomb attack entered Turkey in 2014 (with a fake Syrian identity showing his name as "Salih Muhammed Neccar") telling the authorities that he had escaped Islamic State violence in Syria.

The investigation was launched after the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), which has been linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), claimed responsibility for the bombing saying the attack was revenge for operations by the Turkish military in the southeast of the country, also announcing that one of its members, named Abdulbaki Somer, conducted the Ankara attack.

The claim was followed by Musa Somer's (the father of Abdulbaki Somer) detention, after which DNA samples from Somer’s father were taken. But the subsequent test result showed a match between Neccer and Musa Somer, thus identifying the perpetrator as Abdulbaki Somer, Hurriyet reports.

It should be noted that earlier Turkish security sources, keeping anonymity, told Anadolu Agency that the PKK terrorist organization planned last week's Ankara bombings while the YPG, which is the military wing of Syrian PYD, provided assaults for the attack.

In his  turn Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier this week that the attack was carried out by a YPG member, aa.com.tr reports. 

As to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu it is obvious that the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the militia of Syria’s Democratic Union Party (PYD), and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) jointly staged the car bomb attack, noting that ''YPG was taking orders from the PKK and said that blaming the PKK for the attack was simply an attempt to ''exonerate the YPG'', Hurriyet reports. 

Turkish authorities are pressing the US to stop supporting the Kurdish Syrian militias announcing that they have links with the PKK. But the US has no intention to call those Kurdish groups as terrorists, realizing their role in the fight against Islamic State group extremists.