As Turkey pressed ahead with an investigation into the triple suicide bombing at Istanbul's busiest airport bombing and track down suspects, its security forces killed the mastermind of an earlier suicide bombing, an official said Friday. Mehmet Sirin Kaya was killed in the town of Lice in the mainly Kurdish province of Diyarbakir, the official said. The Feb. 17 suicide attack against military personnel in Ankara killed 29 people and was claimed by an offshoot of the Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK, which Turkey considers a terrorist organization. Turkey is still reeling from Tuesday's gun-and-bomb at Ataturk Airport, one of the world's busiest, which killed 44 people and wounded more than 230. Kurdish rebels have carried out numerous car bomb attacks in the past year, including the Feb. 17 Ankara attack and another devastating bombing in the capital in March.

Source: Fox News July 01, 2016 08:26 UTC