The death toll from the explosion at a train station in the Turkish capital Ankara Saturday has risen to 47. Attorney General Haun Kodalak told the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet that seventeen injured his deceased at the hospital. Because of the attack were 126 people injured, some of them are still in critical condition.
Fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK lay down their arms . The leadership of the movement has called on fighters Saturday no longer carry out attacks unless they themselves are attacked by Turkey. It is the first time since the breakup of a file in July that the PKK cease the conflict with Turkey.
The bombing in the Turkish capital Ankara , causing at least thirty people were killed , is a "cruel barbaric attack " . That said Selahattin Demirtas, leader of the pro - Kurdish Democratic Peoples Party Saturday .
After years of cease-fire flared last summer's conflict between Kurdish fighters and Turkish police and army units in unusually fierce . Since late July , the number of bombings and attacks mutual rapidly. Saturday gathered near the main station of the capital Ankara people to protest against the armed conflict between the PKK and the Turkish government. The explosion that took place at that time, took at least thirty lives. A survey from July :
The US Department of Defense ( Pentagon ) is doing a project of $ 500 million (over 440 million) for the training of Syrian rebels . An unnamed official at the Pentagon Friday The New York Times announced that it is now strongly criticized program no unit on the ground has produced that can stand up to the extremists of the Islamic State (IS) .
Turkey will consult with NATO and several individual countries about strengthening his defense because of the threat from Syria . The talks also comes the deployment of Patriot air defense systems discussed. That left the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Friday .
People who are not entitled to asylum should quickly return to their own country. The Member States of the European Union Thursday approved measures to make their return policies more effective.
The international coalition against Islamic State (IS) in Syria should not play apart from Russia. Russia is working to position itself as a military power , but that we should not be distracted from our goal, the control of IS . That said Defense Minister Jeanine Hennis -Plas Chart Thursday in Brussels , where NATO defense ministers are gathered .
NATO may send troops to Turkey if necessary to help defend the southern border. This was said Thursday NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg shortly before a meeting of the defense ministers of the Alliance.
From four Russian naval vessels are 26 rockets fired at positions of Islamic state in Syria . This is the Russian Defense Minister , Sergei Sjoigoe , Wednesday. The distance between the Caspian Sea and Syria is about 750 kilometers .
Turkey wants to enter Ankara talks with Russian military officials to prevent fighters from Russia again violating Turkish airspace that way. That the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday .
The European Union is since Wednesday in the Mediterranean in search of smugglers . Under the code name Sophia Search naval forces especially the routes from Libya to Italy. Coordination is in the hands of the Italian Admiral Enrico CREDENDINO in Rome .
According to Russia Turkey has proposed to establish a working group to coordinate Moscow of the air campaign over Syria . That the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
