The Latest: Kurd leader: Rogue elements may be behind attack

The Latest: Kurd leader: Rogue elements may be behind attack, The Latest on Turkish airstrikes on Kurdish rebels in arctic Iraq and after-effects of Ankara bombing (all times local):

The baton of a Kurdish awning alignment — which includes the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK — has said he does not apperceive who is abaft the suicide car bombing in Ankara that dead 28 people.

However, Cemil Bayik did not aphorism out the achievability that rogue Kurdish militants, angered by Turkish aggressive operations in the country's southeast, may accept been abaft the advance Wednesday that targeted buses accustomed aggressive members.

Bayik told the pro-Kurdish Firat News: "We don't apperceive who agitated out this act. But we apperceive that ahead such acts accept been agitated out in backfire for massacres in Kurdistan. It is accessible that those who did it will anon explain why they did it."

Turkish Prime Abbot Ahmet Davutoglu says the advance was agitated out by a Syrian who belongs to a Syrian Kurdish militia group, in accord with the banned PKK.

Turkey's aggressive has been administering all-embracing aggressive operations adjoin PKK-linked militants in the southeast, operations that it says has dead hundreds of militants. Human rights groups accept aloft austere apropos over Turkey's aggressive operations, which accept led to noncombatant deaths as able-bodied as displacing tens of bags of people.

A amalgamation of Arab and Kurdish groups in Syria has accursed the bombing in the Turkish basic of Ankara that dead 28 humans and blood-soaked others.

The predominantly Kurdish Syria Democratic Armament has been a basic force in angry the Islamic State accumulation in Syria.

The SDF account was apprehend Thursday by the coalition's agent Talal Sillo and acquaint on their Facebook page.

SDF alleged aloft the all-embracing amalgamation to accent its efforts in angry agitation in adjustment "to abate it."

Turkey's Prime Abbot Ahmet Davutoglu said beforehand Thursday that a Syrian civic with links to Syrian Kurdish militia, YPG, agitated out the suicide bombing in Ankara that targeted aggressive personnel.

A Turkish Foreign Admiral official say the ambassadors of the 5 abiding U.N. Aegis Council associate states accept been arrive to the admiral alone and are getting abreast on the advance in Ankara which dead 28 people.

The 5 abiding associates are Britain, China, France, Russia and the U.S.

The ambassadors of Germany and the Netherlands as able-bodied as the arch of the European Union appointment were aswell arrive on Thursday, the admiral official said. The official batten on activity of anonymity because she wasn't accustomed to allege about on the issue.

Turkey's leaders say a Syrian civic who was a associate of Syrian Kurdish militia accumulation agitated out the suicide car bombing on Wednesday black in accord with Turkey's own Kurdish insubordinate group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.

Turkey labels both groups as agitator organizations and is pressuring allies to stop abetment the Syrian Kurdish militia group. The Syrian Kurdish militia, however, are a key force in the activity adjoin the Islamic State group.

The basic Kurdish militia in Syria says it has no links to the bombing in the Turkish capital, abacus that accusations by Turkey's prime abbot are "lies" aimed at paving a way for a Turkish advance on Kurdish areas in Syria.

The People's Protection Units, or YPG, says its basic role has been to assure "our humans from barbarian gangs" in Syria, apropos to the Islamic State accumulation and al-Qaida's affiliate.

Turkey's Prime Abbot Ahmet Davutoglu said beforehand Thursday that his country will retaliate adjoin YPG, whom he captivated amenable for the bomb advance in Ankara that dead 28 humans and blood-soaked dozens.

The account said YPG is not affianced in any aggressive activity adjoin adjoining states or added forces.

It said that admitting Turkey's "provocations and attacks" on Kurdish areas in Syria, it has never retaliated adjoin Turkey.

The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced with Turkey's leaders to activity her condolences afterwards the bombing that targeted aggressive cadre in Ankara dead 28 people.

Merkel's appointment said she batten Wednesday black with Prime Abbot Ahmet Davutoglu and Thursday morning with Admiral Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

It said that Merkel acerb accursed the advance and assured both leaders that "Germany stands in adherence at Turkey's ancillary in the activity adjoin terrorism."

Merkel has been alive carefully with Turkey afresh in an accomplishment to abate the breeze of migrants to Europe. Davutoglu canceled a planned cruise to Brussels to accommodated with leaders from several EU nations afterward the bombing.

Turkey's admiral says that admitting denials, affirmation acquired by Turkish authorities credibility to Syrian Kurdish militias as getting abaft the car bombing in Ankara that dead 28 people.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking to reporters Thursday during a appointment to the arch of aggressive staff's office, said the advance would appearance the all-embracing amalgamation the able links that abide amid Turkish insubordinate accumulation the PKK, and the Syrian Kurdish militia groups.

Turkey insists that the Syrian militias and the PKK are the aforementioned and both are alarm groups. It has been acute its ally, the United States, to admit the Syrian Kurdish armament as terrorists. The U.S. already lists the PKK as a alarm group.

But Washington has relied heavily on the Syrian Kurds in the activity adjoin the Islamic State accumulation and has alone Turkish pressure.

Swedish badge say they are investigating an access backward Wednesday in a Turkish amalgamation in southwestern Stockholm that acquired "major damage." There were no injuries because the amalgamation was bankrupt at the time.

Police agent Lars Bystrom says no arrests accept been made, abacus badge couldn't anon say whether it was affiliated to a bombing in Ankara that dead 28 people.

Bystrom said Thursday "we accept been in touch" with Sweden's aegis badge about the bang in Fittja, a suburb with a ample immigrant population. He beneath to elaborate.

The bang came afterwards a man was actively blood-soaked if attempt during a pro-Kurdish affirmation in Fittja on Saturday.

Bystrom said "it was actual harder to say" whether it was affiliated to the Wednesday black blast.

Turkey's state-run account bureau says six soldiers accept died in a Kurdish insubordinate bomb advance in southeast Turkey a day afterwards a suicide bang dead 28 humans in Ankara.

Anadolu Bureau said Thursday that the rebels detonated a bomb on a alley bond the cities of Diyarbakir and Bingol as a aggressive car was casual by.

Another soldier was actively blood-soaked in the attack, which came a day afterwards the car bombing in the Turkish basic that targeted aggressive personnel.

The PKK has been angry Turkey for Kurdish freedom back 1984. The battle reignited in the summer afterwards the collapse of a brittle accord process.

The baton of the basic Syrian Kurdish accumulation has denied that his accumulation is abaft the Turkey blasts and warns Ankara adjoin demography Syria arena action.

Salih Muslim told The Associated Press from his abject in Europe Thursday that the Turkish accusations are "totally rejected."

He aswell says that the bang in Ankara that dead about 28 humans is agnate to bombings agitated out in the accomplished by the Islamic State group.

"We accept no hotlink to these bombings and with what is accident central Turkey," he says.

He says that any Turkish arena activity in Syria will be confronted by a amalgamation of Kurdish and Arab fighters

Turkey's prime abbot says his country will retaliate adjoin a Kurdish insubordinate accumulation he has captivated amenable for the advance in Ankara that dead 28 humans and blood-soaked dozens of others.

Ahmet Davutoglu aswell told reporters Thursday that Syria's government, which he accused of abetment Syrian Kurdish militias, is aswell to blame. Wednesday's bang in Ankara targeted buses accustomed aggressive personnel.

In an credible advertence to the U.S., Davutoglu alleged on allies to stop its abutment for the Syrian Kurdish group.

Turkey commendations the Syrian Democratic Union Party, and its aggressive wing, the People's Protection Units as terrorists because of their amalgamation to Turkey's banned Kurdish insubordinate group. The Kurdish militia, however, has been angry the Islamic State group, alongside the United States.

Turkey's prime abbot says a Syrian civic with links to Syrian Kurdish militia agitated out the suicide bombing in Ankara that targeted aggressive cadre and dead at atomic 28 people.

Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday that Turkey's Kurdish rebels collaborated with the Syrian man to backpack out the attack.

Davutoglu said: "The advance was agitated out by the PKK calm with a being who sneaked into Turkey from Syria," apropos to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, accepted as the PKK.

The prime abbot said authorities had bedfast nine humans in affiliation with the attack.

Turkey's aggressive says its jets hit Kurdish insubordinate positions beyond the bound in arctic Iraq, afterward a suicide bombing that targeted aggressive cadre in Ankara dead 28 people.

The aggressive said Thursday the warplanes addled the arena of Haftanin in arctic Iraq, targeting a accumulation of some 60-70 rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. It said the raids were conducted on Wednesday night. The aggressive said the accumulation included a amount of chief PKK leaders.

Turkey's air force has been arresting PKK positions in arctic Iraq back a brittle accord activity with the accumulation burst in July.

Turkish media letters say a Syrian civic was abaft the advance in Ankara that dead at atomic 28 humans and blood-soaked dozens of others.

Yeni Safak, a bi-weekly abutting to the government, said Thursday that the man who detonated the car bomb Wednesday that targeted buses accustomed aggressive cadre was articular from his fingerprints. It said he had been registered as a refugee in Turkey.

Pro-government Sabah bi-weekly said the man was affiliated to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.

A government official couldn't affirm the reports.

The access occurred during black blitz hour in the affection of Ankara, in an breadth abutting to assembly and armed armament address and lodgings.

There was no actual affirmation of albatross although suspicion fell on the PKK and the Islamic State group.
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