Terrorist Attack Linked To Turkey’s Syria Policies

Kadri Gursel argues that Revolutionary Peoples’ Liberation Party-Front [DHKP-C] suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara is a response to Turkey’s policies in Syria.
Turkish police bomb experts inspect the site after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. embassy in Ankara February 1, 2013. A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in an attack which killed two people at the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday, the provincial governor Alaaddin Yuksel told reporters. REUTERS/Stringer (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3D81N
Turkish police bomb experts inspect the site after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Feb. 1, 2013. - REUTERS/Stringer

The terror attack against the U.S. Embassy in Ankara on Friday is a boomerang effect of Turkey’s Syria policy that has targeted Turkey more than the United States.

The clearest clue to is this the political content of the statement by Revolutionary Peoples’ Liberation Party-Front [DHKP-C] claiming responsibility for the attack that killed an embassy security guard and the suicide bomber.

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