The Turkish military has continued to bombard the PKK, which on Saturday, after the Ankara bombings, said it was halting all military activity against the state. The two were reportedly on a list of 21 potential suicide bombers.
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Being targeted by terrorists does not bring shame on the victims or their government, of course. This includes the lack of enough police security at left-wing and pro-Kurdish rallies, including the deadly one in Ankara. They will kill children, rape women, and enslave you.
Leftist “Die Linke” party’s Inge Höger elaborated on Roth’s argument, saying that Ankara shut down entire cities in Turkey’s eastern regions, to frighten the Kurdish people before parliamentary elections next month.
Although the attack certainly devastated the rally physically, it did much more damage to Turkey’s political stability.
“Nobody can make us sure that the weapons our allies are going to supply to the PYD will not get to the PKK [the Kurdish Workers’ Party, outlawed in Turkey]”.
Video footage showed a group of young people holding hands and singing before the first explosion. This too is shameful.
In the June election, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), loosely affiliated with the PKK, began to transform into more of a multi-ethnic party, attracting support from many liberal secularists who were not Kurds.
In the interview however Davutoglu did not mention the names of the bombers and Ankara prosecutors have also banned publication of materials relating to the investigation.
Iceland on Tuesday night in the central city and a soccer match between Turkey was marred by jeering within a minute of quiet for the Anakara casualties. The government dismissed the truce declaration as a ploy ahead of November polls that will be contested by a pro-Kurdish party. Their shame comes not just from negligence or worse, but from a disastrous domestic and foreign policy that polarized Turkey and won it zero friends overseas. Instead, their former jihadist friends hit them right in the heart of their capital.
He also complained about the YPG supporting the PKK and thus nourishing a threat to Turkish stability, while describing the PKK as posing an “equally serious threat” of terrorism as the Islamic State.
This came after a meeting between Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and the leader of main opposition CHP, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who asked for the resignation or removal of Interior Minister Selami Altınok and Justice Minister Kenan İpek.
The larger trade unions openly support the government.
Turkey’s own three-decade-long war with the PKK, which has a death toll that exceeds 40,000 people, is now exacerbated by the ISIS-Kurdish war in Syria.
One of the two perpetrators of the Ankara bombings now is believed to be the brother of the Suruc bomber.
David Romano has been a Rudaw columnist since 2010. The authorities have angrily ridiculed claims of state complicity.
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