US diplomat visits scene of Ankara car bomb attack

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited on March 23 Ankara's central K?z?lay Square, the site of a deadly suicide car bomb attack earlier this month.

Accompanied by U.S. Ankara Ambassador John Bass and Defense Attaché Brig. Gen. Marc Sasseville, Blinken commemorated the victims of the attack by leaving flowers at the scene.    
   
Blinken is later expected to be received by Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu during his official visit to the capital.

The March 13 car bomb attack hit a major Ankara public transportation hub, killing 36 and injuring dozens of civilians.      

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)-affiliated Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) claimed responsibility for the attack.      

Turkey's Interior Ministry identified the bomber as 24-year-old Seher Çagla Demir, who was recruited by the PKK and also received training with the People's Protection Units (YPG), the military wing of Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD), in Syria.
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