Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters in Berlin those detained were linked to a Marxist terrorist group.
Sabah, a Turkish newspaper close to the government, reported Sunday that authorities suspect the leader of a former Marxist group, Mirhac Ural, now believed to be based in Syria, may have revived his group and ordered the attack.
The group, Acilciler, was one of many Marxist groups active in Turkey through the 1970s and 1980s, and was long-rumored to have been formed by the Syrian intelligence agency. Many of its militants allegedly included ethnic Arab Turks belonging to a sect close to Syria’s Alawites.
“Some believe that now that relations (with Turkey) have deteriorated again, Syria may have reactivated the group to cause turmoil in Turkey,” said Nihat Ali Ozcan, a terrorism expert at the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey.
[source : Turkey’s Erdogan says country won’t be drawn into Syria conflict after deadly bombings, Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/death-toll-in-car-bomb-attacks-at-turkish-town-near-syria-border-increases-to-46/2013/05/12/2ae3bdd8-bada-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story.html, 12th May 2013]
In other words...SWEET F A!
It is all "may have", "suspect", "believe", "long-rumored", "allegedly".
Many NATO media report the allegation that a Marxist organisation with links to Syria was involved, but do not mention the organisation's name or any details such as above. This is the only report that I can find on this.
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