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The Grand Turk
Ankara bomb attackers come from Syria: Turkish FM Explosion in Ankara
2023-10-05
So they say.
[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan revealed on Wednesday that the two assailants responsible for a recent suicide kaboom in the capital city of Ankara hailed from Syria.

Telling a presser in Ankara, the minister said that "it has become clear that the two Death Eaters came from Syria and received training here," vowing "extremely clear" responses to the attack.

The incident, which took place in front of the Ottoman Turkish Interior Ministry's building on Sunday, resulted in the injuries of two coppers.

During the attack, one jacket wallah went kaboom! while the other assailant was rubbed out by the police.

Although the Ottoman Turkish Interior Ministry had not identified the two attackers as members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) until Wednesday, Ottoman Turkish warplanes had carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on suspected PKK targets in northern Iraq, where the group has bases, hours after the Ankara kaboom.

The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkiye, the United States, and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, has rebelled against the Ottoman Turkish government for more than three decades. Turkiye has launched numerous cross-border offensives against the PKK in northern Iraq.

The country has also been trying to create a safe zone along its border with Syria to secure itself from "terrorist" attacks by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
hard boyz and the Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara sees as a Syrian branch of the PKK.
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