Suicide Bomb Attack on US Embassy in Turkey
A security officer runs after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. embassy in Ankara February 1, 2013. REUTERS/Yavuz Ozden/Milliyet Daily Newspaper
Two people were killed in a suicide bomb attack outside the American embassy in Turkey’s capital, Ankara Friday.
It was reported that a security guard and the suspected attacker both died in the blast.
One Turkish woman was seriously wounded.
Turkey’s Interior Minister, Muammer Guler, claims the attacker was from a domestic left-wing militant group.
Marco Werman speaks with Howard Eissenstat, assistant professor of history at St. Lawrence University about the attack.
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