On 17 March, the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) reportedly claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack in Ankara on Sunday saying it would attack security forces again. “On the evening of March 13, a suicide attack was carried out … in the streets of the capital of the fascist Turkish republic. We claim this attack,” the group said. In an online statement, the group said the attack was a revenge for security operations which killed hundreds of civilians, security forces and militants in the mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey. TAK said it targeted security forces and had not intended to kill civilians. The statement said a large number of civilians was killed after the police intervened and it warned that further civilians losses in its attacks were inevitable.
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