{"id":22725,"date":"2016-02-19T07:20:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T07:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/turkey-blames-kurdish-militia-for-ankara-attack-challenging-u-s\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:29:13","slug":"turkey-blames-kurdish-militia-for-ankara-attack-challenging-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/turkey-blames-kurdish-militia-for-ankara-attack-challenging-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Blames Kurdish Militia for Ankara Attack, Challenging U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD \u2014 In blaming a Syrian Kurdish militia supported by the United States for a deadly car bombing in Ankara, Turkey added new urgency on Thursday to a question its president recently posed to the Obama administration: Are you on the side of a NATO ally \u2014 Turkey \u2014 or its enemies?<\/p>\n<p>The militia, which adamantly denies any role in the bombing, is the administration\u2019s most important ground force inside Syria in the fight against the militants of the Islamic State. But it is also fast becoming an enemy of Turkey, which views the militia as a national security threat because of its links to another Kurdish militant group that is battling for autonomy within Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/19\/world\/europe\/turkey-car-bombing.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=second-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD \u2014 In blaming a Syrian Kurdish militia supported by the United States for a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22726,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725\/revisions\/22726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}