Car bomb in Turkish city of Kayseri kills 13 soldiers and injures another 48

A total of 13 soldiers were killed and 48 more injured in a car bomb attack in the Turkish city of Kayseri. The car bomb hit a bus that was transporting off-duty military personnel in the central Turkish city. This incident comes one week after a twin bombing targeted police in Istanbul.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 17 December 2016.

Last week's bombing left 44 dead and wounded more than 150 and these blasts have angered a Turkish public that is frustrated by a string of deadly bombings this year - some of these have been claimed by Kurdish militants. However, no agency has claimed responsibility for the car bomb in Kayseri.
It seems the bus transporting the military was stopped at a red light near the campus of Erciyes University in Kayseri when a car approached it and detonated the car bomb. Kurdish militants have previously targeted buses that were carrying military or security forces.
Turkey is faced with multiple security threats including spillover from the fight against Islamic State in northern Syria - there Turkey is a member of a U.S.-led coalition against the militant group. Turkey also faces regular attacks from Kurdish militants.


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Three car bombings in Turkey kill at least 11, more than 200 injured

Three car bombings targeted a pair of police stations and a military vehicle in Turkey and killed at least 10 people and wounding at least 219 others. A village guard was also killed in a separate clash bringing the toll to 11.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 18 August 2016.

The third bombing killed four soldiers in a military vehicle in southeast Turkey. The vehicle was returning from an operation in the mainly-Kurdish province of Bitlis when it was struck by a roadside bomb which was, reportedly, detonated by Kurdish rebels. A village guard was killed in clashes between security forces and the Kurdish rebels in a nearby village.
Earlier, a car bomb attack on a police station in the eastern province of Van late killed a police officer and two civilians and injured at least another 73 people — 53 of them were civilians and remaining 20 police officers. Some hours later, another car bomb hit police headquarters in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig. The death toll was three police office officers with another 146 wounded. At least 14 of them were in serious condition. The explosion happened on the grounds of the police headquarters and caused cars parked nearby to catch fire.
Fighting between the PKK and Turkey's security forces resumed last year following the collapse of a fragile peace process and, ever since, more than 600 Turkish security personnel and thousands of PKK militants have been killed. Many civilians have also died according to human rights groups.


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36 killed and more than 147 injured in Ataturk airport suicide attack in Istanbul

Suicide bombers attacked the Ataturk International airport in Istanbul and left at least 36 dead with more than 140 injured. There are fears that the death toll could rise. It is suspected that three Islamic State terrorists were involved - they blew themselves up at the airport.
The airport was put on lockdown, the subway system was shut down, and all roads leading to the airport were closed. The Federal Aviation Administration has suspended flights between Istanbul and the United States.
This has been reported in usatoday.com dated 28 June 2016.

AS indicated by Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, three suicide bombers were responsible for the attack and from initial information, they appeared to belong to the Islamic State group was behind it. They had arrived at the airport in a taxi and blew themselves up after opening fire.
This attack is the latest in a wave of terror attacks in Turkey which is trying to come to terms with the civil war raging in neighboring Syria. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but, the government in Ankara has blamed Islamic State terrorists or Kurdish separatists for recent attacks.


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Car bomb attack on Istanbul police leave 11 dead

A car bomb attack on a police bus in Beyazit district, Istanbul has left 11 people dead, seven of them were police officers. Four persons have been arrested in this connection. The deaths have been confirmed by the city's governor, Vasip Sahin. Thirty-six others have been injured and at least three of them were in a serious condition.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 7 June 2016.

The explosion happened near the Vezneciler metro station and close to an Istanbul University building. The force of the blast caused the police bus to overturn - it was transporting rapid-response officers. As a result the metro station was closed and university canceled the exams. Due to the explosion, nearby buildings were damaged as were several cars. Windows were blown out and debris littered the floor of the 16th-century Sehzade Mosque.
This was the fourth major bombing in Turkey's biggest city this year - two of these targeted security forces while the other two targeted tourists. The violence has already affected the tourism industry and has damaged the economy. As per official figures, 1.75 million people visited Turkey in April - this is more than 28% down on April 2015.


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Terror attack in Ankara kills at least 37 - one suicide bomber was a 22-year-old woman

In a suicide attack in the city of Ankara, at least 37 persons have been killed and more than 125 people are injured. The attack took place in Kizilay, a major shopping and transport hub, located in the center of the Turkish capital.
One of two suicide bombers was a 22-year-old female PKK member from the eastern city of Kars and had joined the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) in 2013 as informed by Turkish security officials.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 14 March 2016.

This was the third terror attack in Ankara in just six months and the bombers had arrived in a BMW which was packed with items like nails and pellets, to cause maximum carnage. Identification of one of the suspects was by tracing the BMW using the chassis number.
Fighter jets had struck arms depots and shelters of the PKK in the Iraqi mountainous areas of Qandil and Gara on Monday and the attack could have been because of that. Nine F-16s and two F-4s had conducted the strikes on eighteen recently identified targets as revealed by the military. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but other bombings elsewhere in the country have been blamed on Islamic State, which is also active in Turkey.


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