ISIL in the frame for Ankara bomb attacks says Turkish PM

The twin blasts in the capital city of Turkey on Saturday is viewed as an attack that is well planned by the Islamic State as analyzed by many.

“This attack will not turn Turkey into a Syria”, he said.

A few government critics, including the HDP, think the state was involved in the bombings and was trying to bost its support in the November elections.

No organization has yet claimed responsibility for the deadly bombings.

Turkey’s prime minister says authorities are close to identifying one of the suicide bombers who carried out the blasts in Ankara that killed 97 people.

“We are close to identifying one of the bombers”, he said on Monday.

The renewed attacks on Kurdish targets comes after bombs detonated just seconds apart in Ankara on Satursday, as crowds gathered for a march to protest over the deaths of hundreds of people since the collapse of a ceasefire between security forces and the rebel PKK in July.

Two almost simultaneous explosions targeted a Turkish peace rally Saturday by Kurdish activists and opposition supporters in Ankara.

The Queen said she is “shocked and saddened” by the suspected suicide bombings.

HDP spokesman Ayhan Bilgen told Reuters that the party is considering canceling all rallies amid security concerns.

“Murderer Erdogan!” was one chant, referring to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

On Sunday, the Turkish military said its warplanes struck PKK targets in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey over the weekend.

Designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States, and European Union, the PKK launched a separatist insurgency in 1984 in which more than 40,000 people have been killed.

“He can criticize me as a prime minister and as AK [Justice and Development] Party chairman”, Davutoglu said. A pro-Kurdish party has said that up to 128 people died in the attacks Saturday.

They were due to take part in a rally calling for an end to the violence between Turkish government forces and the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Two senior security sources said initial signs suggested Isil was behind the Ankara attack, and that it bore striking similarity to a July suicide bombing in Suruc near the Syrian border, also blamed on the radical Islamists.

The leader of the HDP, Selahattin Demirtas, said the state had attacked the people – and that the people of Turkey should be the recipients of global condolences, not President Erdogan.

The attack occurs three weeks before the national elections and three months after the breakdown of a mutual ceasefire between the Turkish government and the (PKK).