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| Four terror groups may be behind Ankara attack: Turkish PM | |
| 2015-10-11 | |
[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu declared a three-day national mourning after the Oct. 10 twin kaboom on a peace rally in Ankara, also singling out four outlawed organizations as possible suspects of the country's largest terror tragedy ever.
The prime minister named these organizations as the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), along with two "leftist" organizations, namely, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) and the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP). Although the identity of the culprits remains unknown, Davutoglu said there are "very strong signs" the Ankara blasts were carried out by two jacket wallahs. The prime minister said he wants to consult two parties, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on the issue, but he ruled out any contacts with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) after the Kurdish-issue focused party's co-chair Selahattin Demirtas's statement that slammed the government for the attack. "Demirtas's conscience and mind were handcuffed. I am here if anyone asks for an account," the prime minister said. "This attack has targeted not a single group, citizens who joined the rally or a political community but targeted our people as a whole," Davutoglu said. "While we are heading toward elections [on Nov. 1]... such an attack has directly taken aim at democracy and democratic rights and freedoms," he added. The MHP has rejected the PM's offer but Davutoglu and CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu are expected to meet on Oct. 11. "Today is the day to be in solidarity shoulder-to-shoulder." | |
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