At Least 125 die in Ankara Peace Rally - No Police were around before two bombs!

[Peter Lemkin]

Two suicide bombers [be are told] killed at least 86 in Ankara at a Peace Rally. Strangely, there were NO police [as is normal to de rigour] to be found in the area just before the bombs exploded. Seems as if they had been tipped off.....

The Peace Rally was for Peace with the PKK and Kurdish population, which is known to upset the current government. I smell a rat from the Turkish State.

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Two explosions at a road junction in the centre of the Turkish capital Ankara have killed at least 86 people and injured nearly 200 others, the country's health minister said.
The first blast occurred at around 10:00am (0700 GMT), with the second following shortly after, during a peace rally organised by several leftist groups, including the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
Authorities are exploring the possibility that the blasts may have been caused by two suicide bombers.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced three days of national mourning during a televised press conference on Saturday afternoon.
"We have to stand together against terrorism to defend our country," Davutoglu said, adding that the target of the attack was Turkish unity, democracy and stability.
"We are confident that there is no single citizen who doesn't share the deep sorrow for those who have lost their loved ones in these attacks."
No groups have claimed responsibility for the explosions.
A video on social media showed the moment of one explosion: young people were dancing and waving banners as a massive fireball erupts.


The explosions occurred near a train station where people were gathering for a peace march to protest against the conflict between the state and Kurdish fighters in southeast Turkey.
At a press conference in Ankara on Saturday afternoon, the Turkish health minister said that the death toll from the blasts had risen from 30 to 86, with 186 injured, including 28 who are in intensive care.
Video footage on social media showed several bodies lying on the ground, as survivors tried to attend to the wounded.
Faruk Bildirici, a Turkish journalist who was attending the rally, told Al Jazeera that he was only metres away from the blasts and there were only seconds between the two attacks.
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"Some people were crying and shouting out condemning the attack, some - particularly members of the Turkish Medical Association - were trying to help the wounded." he said.
"I have seen people using banners trying to cover dead bodies and striving to carry the wounded, again with large banners. There were no ambulances or police at the scene.
"This gathering was to deliver a message of peace, democracy and brotherhood in Turkey. This attack prevented people from delivering this message."
'Barbaric attack'
Demonstrators angered by the attack on their fellow activists shouted "police murderers!" at the scene of the blasts but were then dispersed as the security forces intervened.

[R.K. Locke]

Apparently the Turkish media has been banned from reporting on this event and 1000s are now marching in Istanbul chanting "Erdogan Murderer."

[Peter Lemkin]

Erdogan was smiling during his recent public announcement...chilling....he seemed to express no remorse over the deaths and just said they were all now in heaven under Allah's care. If you look at other demos, the police are surrounding the demonstrators. At this rally, police could not be seen before and during explosions and for a long time afterwards.

[Drew Phipps]

Protesters gather at scene of Ankara bombings; 95 dead

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/10/11/pr...1766741197

(Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Nick Tattersall)

Thousands of people, many chanting anti-government slogans, gathered in central Ankara on Sunday near the scene of bomb blasts which killed at least 95 people, mourning the victims of the most deadly attack of its kind on Turkish soil. Two suspected suicide bombers hit a rally of pro-Kurdish and labor activists near Ankara's main train station on Saturday, three weeks before an election, shocking a nation beset by conflict between the state and Kurdish militants.

The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), a major presence at Saturday's march, said police attacked its leaders and members as they tried to leave carnations earlier at the scene. Some were hurt in the melee, it said in a statement. "Murderer (President Tayyip) Erdogan", "murderer police", the crowd chanted in Sihhiye square, as riot police backed by water cannon vehicles blocked a main highway leading to the district where parliament and government buildings are located.


The government denies any suggestion of involvement. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, exposing a mosaic of domestic political perils, said Islamic State, Kurdish militant factions or far-leftist radicals could have carried out the bombing. Some have suggested militant nationalists opposed to any accommodation with Kurds seeking greater minority rights could have been responsible.Turkish investigators worked on Sunday to identify the perpetrators and victims of the attack. Newspaper headlines reflected the mixture of grief and anger.


"We are in mourning for peace," said the front-page headline in the secularist Cumhuriyet newspaper as three days of national mourning declared by the prime minister got underway. "Scum Launch attack in Ankara," said the Haberturk newspaper. "The goal is to divide the nation," said the pro-government Star.

DEATH TOLL COULD RISE
One of the bombers had been identified as a male aged between 25-30 after analyzing bodies at the scene and taking fingerprints, the pro-government Yeni Safak said. There were no claims of responsibility for the attack, which came as external threats mount for NATO member Turkey, with increased fighting across its border with Syria and incursions by Russian warplanes on its air space over the last week.


Davutoglu's office named 52 of the victims overnight and said autopsies were continuing. It said 246 wounded people were still being treated, 48 of them in intensive care. "The necessary work is being conducted to identify those behind the attack and quickly bring them to justice," a statement said. Relatives and friends of the casualties waited anxiously on Sunday morning outside the hospitals where the wounded were being treated.


The two blasts happened seconds apart on Saturday morning as crowds, including pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) activists, leftists, labor unions and other civic groups, gathered for a march to protest over the deaths of hundreds since conflict resumed between security forces and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the mainly Kurdish southeast. HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas blamed the government in blunt terms. He said on Saturday the attack was part of the same campaign as the bombing of an HDP rally in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir on the eve of June elections and a suicide bombing blamed on Islamic State in Suruc near the Syrian border in July, which killed 33 mostly young pro-Kurdish activists.


Hours after the bombing, the PKK, as widely expected beforehand, ordered its fighters to halt operations in Turkey unless they faced attack. It said it would avoid acts that could hinder a "fair and just election" on Nov. 1.

[Peter Lemkin]

The official Turkish Govt. story makes NO sense!...that the PKK would bomb people peacefully protesting for a peaceful accommodation of the PKK in Turkey?! These were friends of theirs, not foes. And the alternate scenario put out there - that it was ISIL [everyperson's boogeyman] also lacks any sense or motive. The only group that would have a motive would be the Turkish Government or Deep Government.

Also, the committee that organized the Peace March say 125 are dead and more may die; also that the police not only NOT being there, came soon after the explosion and THEN started to fire tear gas and club injured and running away protesters and that the Police blocked the entrance of any ambulances for over 30 minutes. Looks clear cut to me.

To top it off, the Turkish govt. has started a military offensive against the PKK, who even AFTER the attack on the marchers said they would NOT engage in any violent or military actions until the upcoming elections. It seems clear to me this was part of plot to prevent any pro-PKK groups from winning seats in the elections and at the cost of over 125 lives and twice that seriously injured.

[Magda Hassan]

Erdogan was smiling during his recent public announcement...chilling....he seemed to express no remorse over the deaths and just said they were all now in heaven under Allah's care. If you look at other demos, the police are surrounding the demonstrators. At this rally, police could not be seen before and during explosions and for a long time afterwards.

Indeed. There are always police at these rallies. Usually to cause trouble. But missing in action on this one only to appear seconds late. Indicates there was prior warning of this attack if it wasn't state sponsored in the first place.

To top it off, the Turkish govt. has started a military offensive against the PKK, who even AFTER the attack on the marchers said they would NOT engage in any violent or military actions until the upcoming elections. It seems clear to me this was part of plot to prevent any pro-PKK groups from winning seats in the elections and at the cost of over 125 lives and twice that seriously injured.

Two of the victims were candidates in the coming election.

[Peter Lemkin]

Dead now number 128...and will rise further. Anger in Turkey and suspicion of the Government grows.

[Tracy Riddle]

Uh oh, Gladio! If the Turkish government paid attention to the interwebs, they'd know people are more knowledgeable about false flag attacks than they were decades ago.

[Lauren Johnson]

Uh oh, Gladio! If the Turkish government paid attention to the interwebs, they'd know people are more knowledgeable about false flag attackss than they were decades ago.

Or, sadly, the other option is that the Turk Gov doesn't care because it too controls the press and will make sure its story will live and the alternative will just go away.

I'm more than half convinced that if the CIA finally admitted to killing JFK after finding long, lost records, the story would just die or take up new bizarre directions. "Yah, so we killed the little creep. What are you going to do about it?" ::

[Tracy Riddle]

Uh oh, Gladio! If the Turkish government paid attention to the interwebs, they'd know people are more knowledgeable about false flag attackss than they were decades ago.

Or, sadly, the other option is that the Turk Gov doesn't care because it too controls the press and will make sure its story will live and the alternative will just go away.

I'm more than half convinced that if the CIA finally admitted to killing JFK after finding long, lost records, the story would just die or take up new bizarre directions. "Yah, so we killed the little creep. What are you going to do about it?" ::

A lot of post-9/11 Americans would also say, "Well, I'm sure they had a good reason. We must trust the CIA to keep us safe!"