Turkey terror attacks

Ankara, Turkey february 17 2016,


A terrorist attack in the city of ANkara took the life of 28 people and injured another 61.
This attack comes at a moment when tensions on the Turkish/Syrian border are rising due to the recent Turkish actions against the Kurds.
The bombing with a carbomb took place hundreds of meters away from the Turkish parliament building, Davutoglú's office and the ministry of defense.
The explosion destroyed a bus with Turkish soldiers waiting at a trafficlight during late afternoon rushhour.
At the same moment Erdogan had a meeting with his national security adviors. Meanwhile Davutoglu cancelled his trip to Brussels.

Turkish media reported the PKK was responsible but in the southeast security sources for the government claimed IS was responsible.

30-03-2016

Another bomb killed and wounded people in Turkey today.
This time a carbomb was used in the southeastern city Diyarbakir.
The bomb exploded when a police van passed the car.
7 police men were killed and 20 people including civilian bystanders were wounded.
Responsibility has not been claimed jet but the area is a Kurdish PKK strongpoint which saw heavy figthings lately between Kurds and the army.

Thursday may 12,

Eight people have been arrested over a car bomb attack in Istanbul's Sancaktepe neighbourhood, broadcaster NTV said, adding that the suspects included a person believed to have left the explosives-laden car at the scene.
Six soldiers and a civilian were wounded when the car blew up near a military base in Turkey's biggest city on Thursday, the latest in a spate of bombings this year.

Four suspected bomb-makers were killed and 17 people wounded when an explosion ripped through Diyarbakir, a village in the southeast, as PKK fighters loaded explosives on to a small truck, the government said.
That blast was just hours after the car bomb in Istanbul.

June 7, 2016

Istanbul,

Another bombattack hit the Turkish capital.
This time 11 people (8 policemen) were killed and 36 injured among them civilians.
The attack was carried out in morning rush hour in Istanbuls centre, near a university and a popular tourist site.
The explosives were hidden in a parked car, when a bus with policeofficers passed by it was detonated by remote control.
Wittnesses told reuters there was gunfire after the explosion.
Police reported 4 people have been arrested.
Like the other attacks so far nobody claimed to be responsible.

Today,

Another attack in Turkey. This time at Ataturk airport in Istanbul.
3 terrorists armed with AK's and bombs attacked the airport.
They arrived with a taxi.
1 of them was stopped and shot at a security checkpoint by security forces in the resulting chaos and panick they pulled their weapons and started shooting.
2 others managed to explode their bombs.
41 people were killed and 239 were wounded. According to Istanbuls governor among the deads were no Europeans or Americans.
The dead came from Saoudi-Arabia, Iraq, Iran, China, Oekraine and Oezbekistan.
According to the governer the attack was carried out by IS, it was almost an exact copy of the attack in Brussels.
So far IS has not claimed responsibility for this latest terror attack.

Diyarbakir,

A car bomb killed six people including four police officers and a child outside a police station in southeastern Turkey on Monday, according to senior government officials who blamed the attack on Kurdish militants.
Twenty-one people, some of them police officers, were wounded in the bombing on a busy road between the city of Diyarbakir, the region's largest, and the district of Bismil, Deputy Prime Ministers Numan Kurtulmus said.
The blast blew out the police station's windows and left the building's twisted metal frame exposed through the concrete and its roof partially collapsed and left a large crater in the road.
The dead included a civilian adult and a child of one of the police officers killed.

Another terror attack in Turkey.
This time a wedding party in Gaziantep was the target.
According to the Turkish prime minister a child aged 12-14 carried and detonated the bomb.
The blast killed 50 people and wounded another 69, 17 of them are seriously hurt.
The attack is blamed to IS.

The airport at Diyarbarkir was attacked this morning.
4 rockets were fired at the airport.
Some landed near the VIP lounge.
So far there are no reports about injuries.
Authorities blame the PKK for this latest act of violence.

Russian ambassador in Turkey shot dead!!

The Russian ambassador in Ankara has been killed in a shooting at an art gallery in the Turkish capital.
Reports said Andrei Karlov was attending the opening of an exhibit at a contemporary arts centre when he was attacked.
Karlov was several minutes into a speech at the exhibit when a man shouted “Allahu Akbar” and fired at least eight shots, according to an AP photographer who was present.
The attacker also smashed some of the photographs, AP reported.
Karlov had died at the scene, his attacker was killed shortley after when Turkish security forces stormed the room.
According to witnesses the attacker could get close claiming he was a policeofficer (confirmed to be a 22 year old policeman, his roommate was arrested together with some the killers relatives.)
Other statements claimed the attacker blamed Russia for the tragedy in Syria.

Turkish authorities has no clue why he shot the ambassador.
A reason can be that Karlov had been one of the negotiators in the peace deal in Syria regarding Alleppo.
The shooting comes just 3 days before a sceduled meeting with Russias foreign affairs secretary.

Its also embarrasing for security forces in Turkey being a NATO partner that such a high profile VIP can be targeted and killed so easily specially since the killer comes from within their securityforces.
President Putin has called a meeting with his security advisors according to Russian officals.
Moscow  and Ankara also opened a hotline to share information.

To be continued!

Izmir terror attack,

Today 3 terrorists carried out an attack against Izmirs courthouse.
Police stopped the terrorists before they could reach the court itself.
Their car carrying a heavy bomb, was stopped at a gate.
After a brief firefight the terrorists blew up their bomb.
In the exchange of fire and the aftermath of the explosion a policeman and an employee of the court died.
Two of the 3 terrorists are dead, a third fled from the scene.
Izmirs governor thinks the PKK is behind this ltest attack, however IS could have done this as well.
None of these groups have claimed resposibilty.