Factbox-Ankara blast echoes previous assaults in Turkey By Reuters

(Reuters) – Turkey’s inside minister mentioned on Sunday that two terrorists carried out a bomb assault in entrance of the ministry buildings in Ankara, including certainly one of them died within the explosion and the opposite was “neutralized” by authorities there.

The bombing, the primary to hit Ankara in numerous years, comes nearly a yr after six folks have been killed and 81 wounded in an explosion in a busy pedestrian road in central Istanbul on Nov 13, 2022.

Turkey blamed Kurdish militants for the Istanbul blast, which reminded Turks of a wave of assaults carried out by varied militant teams in Turkish cities between mid-2015 and early 2017.

Following are a few of these lethal assaults:

Jan 5, 2017 – A Turkish police officer and a courthouse worker have been killed by a automobile bomb within the Aegean coastal metropolis of Izmir whereas a minimum of 10 folks have been wounded. Authorities mentioned Kurdistan Staff Social gathering (PKK) militants have been behind the assault.

Dec 31, 2016 – Islamic State claimed duty for a New 12 months’s Day mass taking pictures wherein 39 folks have been killed after a lone gunman opened fireplace in a packed Istanbul nightclub.

Dec 17, 2016 – A automobile bomb killed 13 troopers and wounded 56 when it tore by a bus carrying off-duty army personnel within the central metropolis of Kayseri. An offshoot of the PKK claimed duty for the assault.

Dec 10, 2016 – Twin bombings, one planted in a automobile and the opposite strapped to a suicide bomber, killed 44 folks, most of them cops, and wounded greater than 150 exterior an Istanbul soccer stadium. A PKK offshoot, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), claimed duty for the assault.

Aug 26, 2016 – A suicide truck bombing at a police headquarters in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast killed a minimum of 11 and wounded dozens. The PKK claimed duty for the assault.

Aug 20, 2016 – A suicide bomber carried out an assault on a marriage get together within the southeastern Turkish metropolis of Gaziantep that killed a minimum of 51 folks. President Tayyip Erdogan mentioned the attacker had labored with the Islamic State.

June 28, 2016 – A triple suicide bombing and a gun assault killed 45 folks and wounded greater than 160 folks at Istanbul’s foremost airport. Turkey handed down life sentences to folks linked to the perpetrators of the assault, believed to have been concerned with Islamic State.

Might 12, 2016 – Explosives that detonated in a village in southeastern Turkey killed 16 folks, had been supposed to be used in a suicide bombing within the close by province of Diyarbakir. Kurdish militants have been believed to have been transporting the explosives, safety sources have mentioned.

March 19, 2016 – A suicide bomber killed 4 folks in a busy purchasing district of Istiklal Avenue within the coronary heart of Istanbul. Authorities confirmed three Israelis, two of them holding twin U.S. citizenship, and an Iranian citizen died on account of the blast. Authorities mentioned a Turkish member of the Islamic State militant group was answerable for the bombing.

March 13, 2016 – Thirty-seven folks have been killed when a bomb-laden automobile exploded at a crowded transport hub within the coronary heart of the Turkish capital Ankara.

Feb 17, 2016 – Twenty-eight folks have been killed and dozens wounded in Ankara when a automobile laden with explosives detonated subsequent to army buses close to the armed forces’ headquarters, parliament and different authorities buildings.

Jan 12, 2016 – A suicide bomber killed a minimum of 10 folks, most of them German vacationers, in Istanbul’s historic coronary heart in an assault then authorities blamed on Islamic State.

Oct 10, 2015 – Twin bombings in Ankara killed greater than 100 folks exterior town’s foremost prepare station. Turkish courts jailed perpetrators, who’re believed to be linked to the Islamic State, for all times.

Sept 8, 2015 – Kurdish militants killed 15 cops in two bombings in jap Turkish provinces of Mardin and Igdir.

July 20, 2015 – An Islamic State suicide bomber killed greater than 30 folks, principally younger college students, in an assault on the primarily ethnic Kurdish city of Suruc close to the Syrian border.