Scuffles break out as police hold back Turkish mourners

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday there were “strong indications” that two suicide bombers detonated the explosives amid the crowd that had gathered near the Turkish capital’s main train station, although he did not attribute the attack to any particular organization.

The first blast occurred at around 10am (07:00 GMT), with the second following shortly after, during a peace rally on Saturday organised by several leftist groups, including the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

No one has taken responsibility for the attack.

With the country shattered by the deadliest attack in the history of modern Turkey, Davutoglu declared three days of national mourning. The rally aimed at protesting conflict between the state and Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey.

The explosion was captured on camera by Turkish news organisation, Dokuz8 Haber News Agency.

Turkey’s president condemned the attacks as “terrorist acts”.

“Like other terror attacks, the one at the Ankara train station targets our unity, togetherness, brotherhood and future”.

Turkey has experienced an upsurge in unrest in recent months, which began after over 30 people were killed in the predominantly Kurdish town of Suruc on July 20 in an attack against pro-HDP activists that was blamed on ISIL.

Turkish authorities suspect that Islamic State (Isis) militants could be behind the twin blasts in Ankara, as the government has declares a three-day mourning.

And North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said there could be “no jusitification for such a horrendous attack on people marching for peace…All North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies stand united in the fight against the scourge of terror”.

Hundreds of people then began to march towards the centre of Ankara, chanting slogans against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who many people accuse of increasing tensions with Kurds to profit at the ballot box in November.

Investigators have so far failed to identify the perpetrators of a terrorist attack on a pro-Kurdish peace rally in the capital city.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation denounces this vile massacre of extreme proportions committed against people who were standing for peace, justice and freedom. Turkey opened up its bases to USA aircraft to launch air raids on the extremist group in Syria and carried out a limited number of strikes on the group itself. But he said groups Daesh, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) were capable of carrying out such an attack.