DHKP-C Group Claims US Embassy Suicide Blast in Ankara
Turkey’s extreme-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) has said it carried a suicide attack on the US embassy in Ankara on Friday.
It said the “act of self-sacrifice” had targeted the US, which the group called “murderer of the people of the world”.
The bomber and a guard were killed in the attack at a side entrance of the heavily guarded compound.
The US has warned its citizens not to visit diplomatic missions in Turkey until further notice.
In an online statement the DHKP-C said: “Our warrior Alisan Sanli carried out an act of self-sacrifice on 1 February 2013, by entering the Ankara embassy of the United States, murderer of the people of the world.”Turkey and the US have denounced the incident as terrorism.
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