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ANKARA, March 17 – RIA Novosti, Fedor Smirnov Embassy. Germany in Ankara, as well as the Consulate General and the German school in Istanbul closed on Thursday due to fears of terrorist attacks on the eve of widely celebrated Kurdish Newroz festival, told RIA Novosti source in the Embassy.
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According to the German Foreign Ministry, the German offices are closed because of warnings about the threat. On the eve of Germany’s Foreign Ministry issued a warning to its citizens, which talked about the possibility of armed clashes and terrorist attacks, especially on the eve of the Kurdish Newroz festival March 21st.
“We fear attacks Kurdish terrorists on the eve of Nowruz, the information about the possibility that we have Furthermore, Germany has a heightened sensitivity to the threat of terrorism in Turkey after the attack in January on the Sultanahmet square in Istanbul, killing our citizens.” – He said the agency.
Closing of the diplomatic missions of Germany in Turkey followed the terrorist attack in Ankara.
The explosion of a bomb in Ankara on March 13 at the bus stop near one of the offices of the Prime Minister of Turkey. This happened in the heart of the Turkish capital when crowded. A car bomb exploded, it is between the two buses. Turkey’s Ministry of Health reported 37 dead, including at least one suicide. 125 people were injured. Responsibility for the attack has taken the Kurdish radical group “Kurdistan Freedom Hawks” (TAK), claiming ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party country.
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