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Fourteen charged in Ankara suicide car bombing attack

Published February 22nd, 2016 - 10:30 GMT
Honor guards carry the coffins of eight victims of the terror attack at Friday's funerals at Ankara's Kocatepe Mosque. (AFP/File)
Honor guards carry the coffins of eight victims of the terror attack at Friday's funerals at Ankara's Kocatepe Mosque. (AFP/File)

The Associated Press reports that 14 people have been charged and jailed on Monday pending a trial in connection with last week’s suicide car bombing that targeted buses carrying military personnel and killed 28 people.

The AP reported the Anadolu News Agency as saying that the 14 are suspected of aiding a terror organization, forging official documents and fraud though it did not say what part they played in the attack.

Seven others who were detained have been released.

Though a Kurdish militant group based in Turkey claims responsibility for the bombing,  the Turkish government claims it was Turkish Kurdish rebels working in tandem with a Syrian militia group backed by the United States who carried out the attack.

The militia group has been a primary force in the battle against Daesh, and Turkey is urging the U.S. to stop its support of the group, the AP stated.

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