Erdogan blames Syria for deadly bombings, while Iran blames Al-Nusra Front.

Erdogan blames Syria for deadly bombings, while Iran blames Al-Nusra Front.(TOI and Mehr).

Turkey’s prime minister says Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime is “hopefully nearing its end” and will pave the way for refugees to return home.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan was speaking Saturday in Reyhanli, the town on the Syrian border which was hit by two car bombings on May 11, killing 51 people. Turkey blames Syria for the bombings, but Damascus denies it had anything to do with the blasts.

Addressing Assad, Erdogan says those “who are trying to disturb the peace in Turkey are the ones who are trying to maintain their dictatorship.”

The Turkish prime minster said his government had forged close ties with Damascus through mutual agreements, but that “these agreements have been disregarded and the bonds of brotherhood between us have been trampled on. By whom? By the dictator Assad,”

A group of hackers who had broken into Turkish intelligence computers has revealed critical information about May 11 Reyhanli blasts, when 54 Turkish citizens were killed. 

Arab-language Ajeel news website reported based on the leaks, Turkish intelligence had known long since April 25 that Al-Nusra Front has three cars, namely, Mazda, Kia, and another brand, deployed in Ar-Raqqa for bombing operation.

However, Turkish daily Milliyet reported that Turkish intelligence has launched no attempt to find the cars from April 25 to May 11.

After Reyhanli blast case was handed in to court, this daily reported that with rejecting an Al-Nusra role in blasts, Ahmet Davutoğlu, the Foreign Minister, had indeed appeared as Al-Nusra Front advocate in the court.

Beşir Atalay, Turkey’s deputy prime minister got some by surprise by admitting that Al-Nusra Front might have a role in the event. Read the full story here and here.