Erdogan seizes on Ankara bombing errors

It comes as Turkish police arrested two people who tweeted there could be a terrorist attack in Ankara the day before the attack.

Quoting police officials, Turkish media said one of Saturday’s bombers is the brother of a suicide bomber who killed 33 pro-Kurdish activists in the Turkish town of Suruc, near the Syrian border, in July.

As for the PKK, why would they target a protest led by their fellow Kurds namely the HDP (Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party)? They also hung out in a teahouse called Islam Cayevi (Islam Teahouse), owned by Yunus, and located in Adiyaman, which is known as an IS kernel in Turkey. Radikal has reportedly covered the ISIS cell Alagoz belonged to since 2013. Man Haron Monis, the Iranian cleric who took 17 hostages in a Sydney cafe previous year, had been interviewed by Australia’s Security Intelligence Organization several times and cleared before that incident, which left three people dead.

Image processed by CodeCarvings Piczard ### FREE Community Edition ### on 2015-10-14 07:48:57Z | http://piczard.com | http://codecarvings.comWounded people wait for help at the site of an explosion in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, October 10, 2015.

He rejected criticism that the authorities had not been robust in rounding up suspected jihadists and described as untrue reports that the father of one of the main Ankara suspects had alerted the authorities about his son’s radicalization a year ago and that nothing had been done. I told police to jail him. “He was released after questioning and went to Syria for another 8 months”, he said.

The president said he is using his executive powers to initiate an investigation into the attacks.

The bombings targeted a public rally calling for peace between the PKK and the Turkish forces.

The bombings killed at least 97 people and wounded hundreds more, the deadliest terror attack on Turkish soil in recent history. DNA tests have identified the terrorist as Seyh Abdurrahman Alagoz, a university student recently radicalized at the “Islam Tea House” in Adiyaman. Senior security sources noted from the beginning that the double bombings bore striking similarity to the Suruc attack. A Kurdish official in Syria said arms were also sent to the YPG, according to the Associated Press. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) failed to win a majority in the June parliamentary elections and could not form a coalition government with the main opposition factions.

The bombing in Ankara shows that ISIS is a major threat not just in the ever-tense southeastern cities, but even now in the very capital of the country.