Turkey in mourning after blasts kill more than 100

Human Rights Watch expresses honest condolences to the relatives and friends of all those who died in Saturday’s double suicide bombing in Ankara. DNA tests are being conducted…

Yeni Safak, a newspaper close to the government, said investigators had determined that one of the bombers was a male about 25 or 30.

The two explosions happened seconds apart as hundreds gathered for a march organised by pro-Kurdish activists and civic groups to protest over the conflict between Turkish security forces and militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the south east of the country.

Women chant during the funeral Monday of one of the victims in Saturday’s twin blasts that killed almost 100 people.

Riot police with water cannon and armoured vehicles stood by as the crowd, a few chanting “Thief, Murderer Erdogan” and waving HDP flags, moved towards the mosque.

UMIT BEKTAS/REUTERS A pair of shoes, belonging to a street vendor who was selling Turkish traditional bagels or simit, is placed at the bombing scene during a commemoration for the victims of Saturday’s bomb blasts.

Davutoglu said Turkey had received intelligence that Kurdish rebels or Islamic State militants were planning suicide bombings and said two would-be bombers were detained before Saturday’s attack.

Davutoglu has previously suggested that the attack could have been carried out by ISIL, Kurdish militants or radical leftist groups. However, no organisation has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.

The Turkish army said on Sunday it killed at least 49 Kurdish rebels in a series of air strikes on the group’s bases in northern Iraq as well as southeastern Diyarbakir province. A senior official told Reuters that the PKK ceasefire meant nothing to the government. “Such a political tendency also shows that those responsible for this massacre will also be not brought to justice, and that even the investigation may be hidden from public scrutiny”, the statement said. The security operations began in the wake of a Daesh bombing on July 20 in the town of Suruc, in southern Turkey, that killed scores of people.

The PKK has announced a series of ceasefires in the past, including ahead of elections, often with a view to opening negotiations.

It’s thought more than 128 people were killed and at least 250 were injured in the deadliest terror attack in Turkey’s history.