Authorities believe the blast was linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) armed group. Two militants believed to be preparing a car bomb attack detonated explosives, killing themselves in a remote area near Ankara on Saturday after Turkish police told them to surrender, the provincial governor said. They were probably going to attack Ankara," Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told broadcaster CNN Turk in an interview, also pointing the finger at the PKK. On Turkey's border with Iraq, in the Cukurca district, Turkish troops killed eight PKK militants in the latest clash on Friday, the military said in a statement. A two-year-old ceasefire between the group and the Turkish state collapsed in July last year, triggering renewed violence.

Source: dna October 08, 2016 13:41 UTC