Search for Turkey bombing suspects continues, as thousands of mourners blame government
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Search for Turkey bombing suspects continues, as thousands of mourners blame government
Thousands mourned the 95 victims of Turkey’s deadliest attack in years as state inspectors tried Sunday to identify who sent suicide bombers to a rally promoting peace with the country’s Kurdish rebels. No one has claimed responsibility yet, but initial investigations are focused on the Islamic State. Other groups that are being considered suspects are Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party(DHKP-C) The attack came after months of violence that saw atrocities in Turkey carried out by all three groups, leaving uncertainty over who’s responsible for the latest attack.
Turkey needs to rapidly get out of the Middle Eastern quagmire.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Turkey’s pro-secular opposition party, blamed Turkey’s support of opposition groups in Syria for the violence.
With tensions high ahead of November 1 snap elections, many mourners accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of fomenting violence to gain votes for the ruling party. Electoral gains by the People’s Democracy Party in June deprived the ruling party, which Erdogan founded, of its parliamentary majority after a decade of single-party rule. The new election was called after the ruling party failed to strike a coalition deal. Meanwhile, opinion polls indicate that the ruling party is unlikely to regain a majority, again forcing it to build a governing coalition. Just how Saturday’s bombings will affect all this remains to be seen.
state mentality which acts like a serial killer.
Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) blamed a “mafia state” for the attack.
