Suicide blast at US embassy in Turkey -Friday Feb 1,2013

A suicide bomber has attacked the US embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara killing himself and a guard who was on duty.

The attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body inside the security checkpoint at the side entrance to the embassy, blowing away a door and sending debris flying into the street

Turkey's interior minister Muammer Guler said the bomber was a member of an illegal far-left group but there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

The Turkish far-left group DHKP-C claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, according to a statement on a website linked to the group.
The statement posted Saturday on "The People's Cry" website said Ecevit Sanli carried out "an act of self-sacrifice on Feb. 1, 2013, by entering the Ankara embassy of the United States, murderer of the peoples of the world,"