Fatal Bombing In Ankara Is Latest Attack In Turkey

4:45pm March 14, 2016

Men hold Turkish flags over the coffin of a victim in a mosque in Ankara, on March 14, 2016, a day after a suicide car bomb ripped through a busy square in central Ankara killing 37 people and wounding 125, officials said. No one has claimed the attack,

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Turkey’s air force hit Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq today after a suicide bombing in Ankara yesterday killed at least three dozen people. Yesterday’s attack is the latest in a string of bombings that have left more than 200 people dead since last July. From Istanbul, Turkey, NPR’s Peter Kenyon joins Here & Now host Robin Young with the latest.

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Peter Kenyon, international correspondent for NPR, based in Istanbul, Turkey. He tweets @pkenyonnpr.

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