<p>A suicide bomber from a far-left group killed a Turkish security guard at the US embassy in Ankara on Friday, blowing the door off a side entrance and sending smoke and debris flying into the street.<br /><br />The attacker blew himself up inside US property, Ankara Governor Alaaddin Yuksel said. The blast sent masonry spewing out of the wall and could be heard a mile away.<br /><br />Interior Minister Muammer Guler said the bomber was a member of a far-left group. The US State Department said it was working with Turkish police to investigate what it described as “a terrorist blast”.<br /><br />Islamist radicals, far-left groups, far-right groups and Kurdish separatist militants have all carried out attacks in Turkey in the past. There was no claim of responsibility.<br /><br />“The suicide bomber was ripped apart and one or two citizens from the special security team passed away,” said Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who was attending a ceremony in Istanbul.<br /><br />“This event shows that we need to fight together everywhere in the world against these terrorist elements,” he said. Far-left groups in Turkey oppose what they see as US influence over Turkish foreign policy.<br /><br />Turkey is a key US ally in the Middle East with common interests ranging from energy security to counter-terrorism, and has been one of the leading advocates of foreign intervention to end the conflict in neighbouring Syria.</p>
<p>A suicide bomber from a far-left group killed a Turkish security guard at the US embassy in Ankara on Friday, blowing the door off a side entrance and sending smoke and debris flying into the street.<br /><br />The attacker blew himself up inside US property, Ankara Governor Alaaddin Yuksel said. The blast sent masonry spewing out of the wall and could be heard a mile away.<br /><br />Interior Minister Muammer Guler said the bomber was a member of a far-left group. The US State Department said it was working with Turkish police to investigate what it described as “a terrorist blast”.<br /><br />Islamist radicals, far-left groups, far-right groups and Kurdish separatist militants have all carried out attacks in Turkey in the past. There was no claim of responsibility.<br /><br />“The suicide bomber was ripped apart and one or two citizens from the special security team passed away,” said Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who was attending a ceremony in Istanbul.<br /><br />“This event shows that we need to fight together everywhere in the world against these terrorist elements,” he said. Far-left groups in Turkey oppose what they see as US influence over Turkish foreign policy.<br /><br />Turkey is a key US ally in the Middle East with common interests ranging from energy security to counter-terrorism, and has been one of the leading advocates of foreign intervention to end the conflict in neighbouring Syria.</p>