“[The Ankara bombing] totally is a collective terrorist act, in which Daesh [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - ISIL], the PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party], the Mukhabarat [Syria’s military intelligence] and the PYD [Democratic Union Party] in northern Syria each played a role,” Erdoğan said Oct. 22 at a gathering of the Confederation of Righteous Trade Unions (HAK-İŞ), a right-wing trade union.
Erdoğan said the Ankara bombing had shown how terrorist acts were committed collectively and slammed those who said ISIL was behind the deadly blasts, which sent shockwaves through the country after killing at least 102 civilians and wounding hundreds of others ahead of a peace rally in downtown Ankara on Oct. 10.
Families and loved ones of those killed have blamed the government for gross negligence in allowing the attack to occur, while the opposition has scoffed at suggestions that ISIL and the PKK conducted the attack together given their battle against each other in Iraq and Syria.
Erdoğan’s remarks came less than a week after one of the suicide bombers in the Ankara twin blasts was identified as Yunus Emre Alagöz, an ISIL militant, according to a written statement released by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the prosecutor’s office heading the investigation into the deadly blasts.
Identified by DNA tests, Alagöz is the brother of another ISIL militant, Şeyh Abdurrahman Alagöz, the perpetrator of the Suruç bombing that killed 33 and wounded more than 100 in late July in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa...
hurriyetdailynews.com
22/10/15
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Erdogan links Syrian intelligence to Ankara bombing...
ReplyDeleteThe suicide bomb attack that killed 102 people in Ankara was jointly planned by a range of groups, including Daesh, Kurdish militants and Syria’s intelligence agency, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday.
Speaking at a trades’ union conference in Ankara, Erdogan identified Daesh, the PKK and its Syrian affiliate the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Syrian intelligence as being behind the Oct. 10 attack that targeted leftist and pro-Kurdish peace protesters.
“This was a collective terrorist action,” he told an audience at the HAK-IS assembly in Ankara. “Daesh, the PKK, al-Mukhabarat and the PYD terrorist organization in northern Syria, were involved in it. All of them jointly planned this action.”
Syria has four intelligence agencies, two of which incorporate the name al-Mukhabarat -- the Military Intelligence Service and the Air Force Intelligence Directorate. The latter, despite its name, is tasked with the most sensitive domestic and overseas operations and is closest to the Assad regime.
The Ankara attack was the deadliest in modern Turkish history. It came as the country prepared for a general election re-run on Nov. 1 amid the renewed Kurdish conflict and Turkey's more open involvement in the war in Syria.
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/guncel/erdogan-links-syrian-intelligence-to-ankara-bombing/449676