Explosion strikes Turkey's capital; 28 dead

[Spike]

WWIII or Global Warming?



(CNN) ANKARA - An explosion hit military vehicles at an intersection in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Wednesday evening, officials said, in what the military called a terror attack.

Twenty-eight people were killed and 61 others were injured in the blast, according to Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus.

The explosion hit three military vehicles and a private vehicle in central Ankara, near Turkish Parliament buildings, Turkey's semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported, citing Ankara Gov. Mehmet Kiliclar. The vehicles were stopped at a traffic light at the time, the military said.

Video aired on CNN Turk showed large flames reaching toward the night sky from an area on the ground.

No group has claimed responsibility.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/17/asia/turkey-ankara-explosion/index.html

 

[Tibs]

No group has claimed responsibility.

It's either ISIS or the Kurds. Or the Russians. Or a false flag attack to get this WWIII train moving.

 

[oneforthebus]

It was Pope Francis and his violent Catholic jihadists I'll bet.

 

[hamster]

It was the Amish, with a buggy bomb.

 

[Vindrow]

Must have been those damn, dirty christian migrants.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Let's not jump to conclusions.

 

[DBS1970]

What kind of military vehicles? It could have simply been an accident.

 

[hamster]

What kind of military vehicles? It could have simply been an accident.

Turkey is blaming the Kurds for this accident, and retaliating with bombing runs.

 

[Spike]

What kind of military vehicles? It could have simply been an accident.

A bomb accidently blew up buses?


Ankara blast: Turkey vows retaliation for deadly bomb attack

Turkey has vowed to retaliate against the perpetrators of a powerful blast in the capital Ankara that left at least 28 people dead and 61 injured.

"Turkey will not shy away from using its right to self-defence at any time, any place or any occasion," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.

Officials said a vehicle full of explosives was detonated as military buses were passing by on Wednesday.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35601300

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Head of Syrian Kurdish PYD denies Ankara attack responsibility

BEIRUT: The head of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party on Thursday denied Turkish allegations that the group was involved in a bombing in Ankara that killed 28 people.

"We deny any involvement in this attack," Saleh Muslim told AFP, after Turkey's prime minister accused the party's armed wing of carrying out the attack in coordination with the Kurdistan Worker's Party, an outlawed Kurdish group in Turkey.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Mi...-pyd-denies-ankara-attack-responsibility.ashx

 

[CharlesDavenport]

Was Belichick in country at the time?

 

[deljzc]

From my understanding all Kurds are not the same. There are factions in Sryria, Iraq and Turkey and some don't get a long with each other (what a surprise for that part of the world, huh?).

Syria Kurds might deny it, but it very well could have been the Kurdish rebellion inside Turkey.

This whole thing is ****** up. And it is 100% Obama's fault and how anyone can look at the Middle East right now and the growing standoff between Russia/Iran vs. Turkey (NATO)/Saudi Arabia on the other and think otherwise is a fool.

Our lack of a realistic foreign policy for the region and instead a pandering, weak president that governs by poll numbers is the one and only reason it has come to this in 8 short years since Bush left office and we had 150,000 troops in Iraq and 50,000 troops in Afghanistan.

Obama's hell-bent plan to withdraw all troops regardless of realities in the region and his continued weakness vs. an expansive and bullying Russia will go down in history as one of the worst U.S. foreign relation blunders and potentially causing millions and millions of military and civilian casualties.

For all his "love" of the refugees, it was his policies that caused it to escalate to unmanageable levels and no one else. Maybe he has guilt on his conscience (and he should).