PHOTO: Remains of a bus destroyed in Sunday’s bombing in Ankara


UPDATE 1020 GMT: Turkish warplanes have struck camps of the insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.

“Military sources” said nine F-16 and two F-4 2020 jets carried out the attacks from 3:20 to 5:30 am in the Qandil mountains, destroying shelters and warehouses of weapons and ammunition.


UPDATE 1000 GMT: A Turkish official says 14 suspects have been detained after Sunday’s Ankara car bomb.

Güngöz Azmi Tuna, the Governor of Eskişehir Province in northwestern Turkey, said 12 people had been arrested in the province and two in Istanbul.

“[The suspects] were involved in terrorist propaganda and tried to embrace terrorists. They were involved in various actions….They are mostly from out of town,” Tuna said.

He said “documents relating to illegal organizations” were seized during the raids but refrained from making a direct connection with the Ankara attack: “We are looking into links.”


UPDATE MARCH 14, 0600 GMT: The death toll from Sunday’s bombing in Ankara has risen to 34, Health Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu said at a press conference.

Müezzinoğlu said at least 125 people have been wounded, with 19 in critical condition.


ORIGINAL ENTRY, MARCH 13: At least 27 people have been killed and 75 wounded in the latest bombing in Turkey’s capital Ankara.

The Ankara Goveror’s office said a car bomb was detonated at 6:45 p.m. at a park in the Kızılay district. A local reporter said the blast occurred near about 10 bus stops.

The Radio and Television Supreme Council has declared a broadcasting ban on images of the scene and victims.

The blast is the third in Ankara in the last five months.

On October 10, an apparent Islamic State bomb killed at least 103 people at a peace rally near the Ankara Railway Station.

A suicide car bomb attack targeting military shuttles on February 17 left at least 29 people dead and injured 81 others.