The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria denies links to a deadly attack near Ankara claimed by Kurdish PKK militants, after Turkish strikes on Kurd-held Syria killed more than a dozen people in retaliation. "We opened an internal investigation and I can confirm that none of the attackers entered Turkey from Syrian territory," Mazloum Abdi tells AFP, accusing Turley of "taking advantage" of the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East "to achieve what it was unable to accomplish in the past". Turkey carried out air strikes against targets linked to Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria after a shooting and suicide attack on October 23 that killed five people at a defence firm near the Turkish capital. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES