Turkish PM confident PKK behind deadly Ankara bombing

PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday, March 14 that the evidence so far pointed to Kurdish rebels being behind a deadly suicide car bombing in Ankara, AFP reports.

"There are very serious, almost certain findings that point to the separatist terrorist organization," Davutoglu told reporters after visiting the wounded at an Ankara hospital, in reference to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Davutoglu said that of the 37 people killed in the blast, 35 had been identified as victims, one was confirmed as an attacker and one was believed to have been helping the attacker.

Eleven suspects have so far been detained over the bombing, he added.

"Wherever the terrorist organization is backed into a corner and confronted with a serious security operation, it carries out such attacks directly targeting civilians in order to drag people into despair," he said.

"It is not the first time it has happened," he said, adding that the attacks including the latest one clearly revealed the "ugly face of the terrorist organization."

He vowed that Turkey would "take any step required to defend this country" and said the army carried out a "very comprehensive operation" in northern Iraq targeting PKK bases, as well as rebels in the Kurdish-majority southeast.