In an act similar to the explosion that rocked a police station in Istanbul last year, a committed Marxist ideologue self-detonated outside of America’s embassy in Ankara, the Turkish capital. When I first read this I thought it would be Al-Qaeda, but apparently Turkish revolutionaries on the left are looking to attack Americans too.
A suicide bomber allegedly belonging to an extremist Leftist group killed himself and a Turkish security guard yesterday outside the United States Embassy in Ankara.
The alleged bomber was identified by local media as 30-year-old Ecevit Sanli, a member of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C). Turkish security forces have arrested a number alleged members of the group in recent weeks, as well as lawyers who defended the suspects in court. The group has been designated a terrorist organisation by the US but had been relatively quiet in recent years.
At least one other person was wounded in the blast, with television images showing chaos in front of the heavily fortified embassy, which is located in the heart of the Turkish capital.
Debris was seen in the street following the blast at a security checkpoint, and the doors of the security building where the bomb was detonated hung off its hinges, although the embassy itself was not damaged.
As the carnage is mopped up, new information is coming to light that the bomber may have attacked the embassy at the behest of Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad, who’s troubles were exacerbated the other day when Israel was forced to enter the civil war in Syria, at least briefly.
Then there’s Turkey’s prime minister, Erdogan, who’s blatant hypocrisy I have called out before. He is busy condemning Israel over the attack, even though his own forces have repeatedly fired on Syrian targets.
Corey Hunt 