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In the
second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide
bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a Turkish
security guard in what the White House described as a terrorist attack.
Washington
immediately warned Americans to stay away from all U.S. diplomatic facilities
in Turkey and to be wary in large crowds.
Suicide
bombing at entrance to US Embassy in Turkish capital: A
suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive Friday in front of the U.S.
Embassy in Ankara, killing himself and a guard at the entrance gate, officials
said.
Turkish
officials said the bombing was linked to leftist domestic militants.
The attack
drew condemnation from Turkey, the U.S., Britain and other nations and
officials from both Turkey and the U.S. pledged to work together to fight
terrorism.
“We
strongly condemn what was a suicide attack against our embassy in Ankara, which
took place at the embassy’s outer security perimeter,” said White House
spokesman Jay Carney.
“A suicide
bombing on the perimeter of an embassy is by definition an act of terror,” he
said. “It is a terrorist attack.”
Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said police believe the bomber was
connected to a domestic leftist militant group. Carney, however, said the
motive for the attack and who was behind it was not known.
A Turkish
TV journalist was seriously wounded in the 1:15 p.m. blast in the Turkish
capital, and two other guards had lighter wounds, officials said.
The
state-run Anadolu Agency identified the bomber as Ecevit Sanli. It said the
40-year-old Turkish man was a member of the outlawed Revolutionary People’s
Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C, which has claimed responsibility for
assassinations and bombings since the 1970s.
The
group has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States but had
been relatively quiet in recent years.
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