13 potential suicide bombers caught in Turkey over past month

Meanwhile, a widespread investigation has begun aimed at uncovering what links Akkuş might have with existing terror organizations. Police are currently investigating Akkuş’s phone records and do not believe that Akkuş was alone on the day he carried out the suicide bombing. Footage from every working security camera in the area has already been collected for examination by security forces at the police’s criminal laboratories in Ankara.

At this point, most police involved in the investigation believe the suicide bomber reached the bomb site by local city bus rather than taxi. This could have well been a way of ensuring that neither Akkuş nor the person accompanying him was caught on videotape. Among the three truckloads of evidence gathered after the explosion were reportedly pieces of fabric from the jacket worn by Akkuş.

Foreigners are training the bombers

Meanwhile, a top-secret report prepared by Turkish intelligence agents reveals that foreign experts are among those training some of the suicide bombers in the Kandil Mountains in northern Iraq. According to the report, an expert was brought in from Europe to help train the estimated 50-60 PKK suicide bombers, many of whom are thought to have slipped over the border into Turkey.

Suspected terrorist Serhat Baysa, turned over to police in Konya on April 14 with a thermos bomb in hand, reportedly provided the police with important information on the subject. Baysa confirmed that in fact foreign experts had been brought in from Europe to help train the PKK’s suicide bombers.

Another part of the secret intelligence report touches on how civilians are being targeted in the terrorist organization’s actions.