Investigation on
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
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
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