Ankara bomber infiltrated Turkey with fake ID: Report

The perpetrator of the suicide bomb attack that killed at least 28 people in Ankara on Feb. 17 entered Turkey with a fake identity, an initial report within the investigation into the deadly bombing has revealed. 

Born in the southeastern province of Van, the bomber identified as Abdulbaki Somer entered Turkey with a fake Syrian identity showing his name as "Salih Muhammed Neccar" in 2014, telling the authorities that he had escaped Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) violence in Syria. He also said he was a Syrian national, the report prepared by Turkey's counterterrorism and intelligence police has revealed, based on a comprehensive study that conflicts with statements made in the aftermath of the bombing. 

Turkish officials had claimed that the perpetrator was a Syrian national from the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers to be the Syrian offshoot of Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The police launched the latest study after the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), a smaller outlawed organization thought to have split from the PKK, claimed responsibility for the bombing. The TAK on Feb. 19 said one of its members, named Abdulbaki Somer, carried out the Ankara attack, which targeted service vehicles carrying military personnel. 

Following the claim, Musa Somer, the father of Abdulbaki Somer, was detained and transferred to the Turkish capital for interrogation within the investigation.

Authorities then took DNA samples from Somer's father to test if it matched the DNA of Muhammet Salih Neccer, who Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu had earlier said carried out the bombing. Erdo?an and Davuto?lu's statements had been based on tests on the finger...