Explosives, ammunition found near Ankara

Explosives and ammunition were found close to an armed police checkpoint on a road connecting the Turkish capital of Ankara to the coastal city of Samsun, the local governor's office said on Feb. 25.

Two hand grenades, a machine gun, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, four detonators, hundreds of bullets and three bags of explosive substances were found less than a kilometre away from a gendarme checkpoint on the road, the Ankara governor's office said in a statement, adding investigations were ongoing. 

Turkish armed forces have regularly seized weapons and munitions in recent months in the southeast, where the military is fighting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). However, such seizures are rare outside southeastern provinces. 

The new find came a week after a car bomb in Ankara killed 29 people. 

The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), a PKK splinter group, claimed responsibility for last week's attack when a car laden with explosives detonated next to military personnel shuttles as they waited at traffic lights near Turkey's armed forces' headquarters, parliament and government buildings. 

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