March 18, 2016•Update: March 22, 2016
ANKARA
A Turkish court has remanded in custody five of nine suspects linked to the recent Ankara bombing.
The suspects, who were detained in connection with last Sunday’s deadly suicide bombing in the Turkish capital, appeared in an Ankara court on Friday to give testimony to public prosecutors.
Five of the suspects were remanded in custody on murder and attempted-murder charges and for ‘disrupting the unity and territorial integrity of the state’.
The remaining four were released under judicial control with three of them being banned from traveling abroad.
Sunday’s car bomb attack in Ankara’s central Kizilay neighborhood hit a major public transportation hub, killing 35 people and injuring 125 others.
The Interior Ministry has identified the bomber as Seher Cagla Demir, 24, a 2013 female recruit to the PKK terrorist organization who received training with the YPG in Syria.
