Bomber hits US embassy in Ankara

A suicide bomber has attacked the US embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara, killing a guard, officials say.

culled from:BBC
The blast, at a side entrance of the heavily guarded compound, sent debris flying into the street.
The US has warned its citizens not to visit diplomatic missions in Turkey until further notice.
No group has said it carried out the attack, but Interior Minister Muammer Guler said the bomber, who also died, was a far-left militant.

Mr Guler suggested that the bomber might have been a member of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
He also said the attacker was believed to have been a Turkish national.

Turkey and the US have denounced the incident as terrorism.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the US strongly condemned the "terrorist attack".
Ankara was last hit by a suicide bombing in September 2011, in an attack blamed on Kurdish militants.
A number of illegal groups ranging from Kurdish separatists to leftist and Islamist militants have launched attacks in Turkey in recent years.