RTFri, 19 Feb 2016 17:22 UTC
© Umit Bektas / ReutersCars of emergency services arrive after an explosion in Ankara, Turkey February 17, 2016
The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), a Kurdish militant group, has claimed responsibility for the Ankara bombing that killed 28 people this week, according to its website.
It said the attack was in retaliation for Ankara's military operation in Turkey's southeast.
The TAK, which is
a splinter group of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), vowed to continue its attacks, Reuters reported, citing the group's statement published on Friday.
It identified the perpetrator of the Ankara bombing as a 26-year-old Turkish national born in the eastern city of Van.
The militant group operates in Turkey and northern Iraq and is regarded as a terrorist organization by Ankara and the US. It has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks since 2004. The latest one was the December mortar
attack at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport that killed one man and damaged five aircraft.
The TAK has said that it severed links with the PKK. The latter, in turn, has reportedly denied having any control over the TAK.
Comment: So much for Erdogan's hysterical "Those damn dirty Syrian Kurds done it!" ranting and raving. (Not that it was believable in the slightest.) As for TAK, they seemingly came out of nowhere in 2004. No one seems to know who started the group. Which is curious, to say the least. Who pulls their strings?
In all probability, 'splinter group' is here code for 'intelligence outfit pretending to be the opponent', or 'pseudo-gangs' as the British counter-insurgency operatives called them. Whether or not the Turkish government was directly involved, the Ankara bombing was very probably a NATO operation.
It is simply far too convenient that 'terrorist attacks' are happening in Turkey at a time when the 'Mad Mullah' in charge there is exterminating Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iraq - for which he badly needs Western public support - and his direct involvement in funding and arming ISIS has been exposed to all the world by Russia.
Comment: So much for Erdogan's hysterical "Those damn dirty Syrian Kurds done it!" ranting and raving. (Not that it was believable in the slightest.) As for TAK, they seemingly came out of nowhere in 2004. No one seems to know who started the group. Which is curious, to say the least. Who pulls their strings?
In all probability, 'splinter group' is here code for 'intelligence outfit pretending to be the opponent', or 'pseudo-gangs' as the British counter-insurgency operatives called them. Whether or not the Turkish government was directly involved, the Ankara bombing was very probably a NATO operation.
It is simply far too convenient that 'terrorist attacks' are happening in Turkey at a time when the 'Mad Mullah' in charge there is exterminating Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iraq - for which he badly needs Western public support - and his direct involvement in funding and arming ISIS has been exposed to all the world by Russia.