{"id":64543,"date":"2013-02-05T08:29:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T06:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=64543"},"modified":"2014-01-08T00:09:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T22:09:36","slug":"turkey-alerted-to-3-terrorists-still-on-the-loose-after-ankara-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/02\/05\/turkey-alerted-to-3-terrorists-still-on-the-loose-after-ankara-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey alerted to 3 terrorists still on the loose after Ankara blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64544\" alt=\"BLAST SCENE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4h_50690542.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4h_50690542.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4h_50690542-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s national security agency has been alerted to the possible presence of three suicide terrorists from the Revolutionary People&#8217;s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) on the Turkish soil, following a blast outside the US embassy in Ankara on February 1.<\/p>\n<p>According to the secret service, the four terrorists crossed into Turkey three months ago. They are all believed to be affiliated with the left-radical DHKP-C party.<\/p>\n<p>Their Identikits have been sent to all state institutions. Turkish media earlier reported the terrorist who blew himself up near the US embassy was trained in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday explosion ripped through the security point outside the US embassy in Ankara, killing a security guard and a civilian.<\/p>\n<p>US embassy attacker was asylum applicant<\/p>\n<p>The terrorist who blew himself up on Friday at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, tried to get political asylum in Germany about a year ago, according to German media.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old named Ecevit Shanli was a supporter of far left &#8220;Revolutionary People&#8217;s Liberation Front and Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He attempted to obtain refugee status in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.<\/p>\n<p>During that time he was already under surveillance by the German intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p>After the request was refused, German law enforcement lost his trail.<\/p>\n<p>Shanli detonated an explosive device, mounted on his body at the security checkpoint at the entrance to the Visa Section of the U.S. Embassy in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The blast killed the terrorist, a security guard and a civilian.<\/p>\n<p>Voice of Russia, TASS<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey alerted to 3 terrorists still on the loose after Ankara blast: Voice of Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: EPA Turkey\u2019s national security agency has been alerted to the possible presence of three suicide terrorists from the Revolutionary People&#8217;s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) on the Turkish soil, following a blast outside the US embassy in Ankara on February 1. According to the secret service, the four terrorists crossed into Turkey three months ago. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":64544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,34],"tags":[8746],"class_list":["post-64543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","category-usa","tag-ankara-embassy-bombing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}