Two Killed in Turkey- US Embassy Blast

	Two Killed in Turkey- US Embassy Blast An explosion at a side entrance to the US embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara killed two people and wounded several others on Friday (February 1). A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives, the provincial governor Alaaddin Yuksel told reporters. Television footage showed a door blown out at the embassy and masonry from the wall around it scattered in front of the side entrance, although there did not appear to be any more significant structural damage to the building. Paramedics ran to help the wounded with one person seen being wheeled to a waiting ambulance. Police were forced to create a pathway to get the injured through a large crowd that had gathered near the embassy. Islamist radicals, far-left groups, far-right groups and Kurdish separatist militants have all carried out attacks in Turkey in the past. The main domestic security threat comes from the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), deemed a terrorist group by the United States, European Union and Turkey, but the PKK has focused its campaign largely on domestic targets. Turkey has led calls for international intervention in neighbouring Syria and is hosting hundreds of NATO soldiers from the United States, Germany and the Netherlands who are operating a Patriot missile defence system along its border with Syria, hundreds of kilometres away from the capital. The US Patriots were expected to go active in the coming days. The most serious attacks of this kind in Turkey occurred in November 2003, when <b>...</b>	From: MinWashingtonNews Views: 0 0 ratings
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