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| ISIL behind Oct 10 Ankara Massacre, says prosecutor’s office |
| 2015-10-29 |
| [Hurriyet] An Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) sleeper cell based in the southeastern province of Gaziantep was behind the twin suicide kabooms that killed 100 peace activists in Ankara on Oct. 10, the Ankara Prosecutor's Office said in a written statement. "It is understood that a terrorist organization in [the southeastern] Gaziantep province planned attacks inside Turkey after taking direct orders from Daesh [Islamic State] in Syria," the prosecutor's office said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIL. "The cell received permission from the terrorist group in Syria to attack all PKK [outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party] and anti-Daesh [Islamic State] targets inside Turkey," the office said. The postponement of the Nov. 1 snap elections was one of motives behind the attack, it said. The attack aimed to have "the Nov. 1 general elections postponed by having terrorist activities extended," the prosecutor's office said in a written statement. "Disrupting political stability by sabotaging the upcoming elections and complicating the formation of a government ... that would emerge after the elections" were some of the other hypothesized reasons for the massacre, it said, adding that it arrived at these conclusions from "data found on digital material." The Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was among the organizers of the peace rally in Ankara and, according to the prosecutor's office, previous attacks against the party were also probably committed by ISIL. "According to recordings that have been investigated, there is strong evidence that the said terrorist organization committed the attacks against the HDP in Adana and Mersin, the kaboom at the HDP rally in Diyarbakir and the kaboom in Suruc," said the statement. On May 18, bombs went kaboom!at two local HDP headquarters in Adana and Mersin. Hidden in a cargo parcel and a gift-wrapped flower pot, the two bombs injured four people and caused damage to the building. Four people were killed in a bombing at an HDP rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on June 5, only two days before the June 7 parliamentary elections. On July 20, a suicide kaboom in the border town of Suruc in the southeastern Sanliurfa province killed 34 people. On Oct. 19, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office announced that one of the two jacket wallahs in the Oct.10 Ankara massacre was Yunus Emre Alagöz, the brother of Seyh Abdurrahman Alagöz, who was the perpetrator of the Suruc attack. The attack aimed at creating turmoil by prompting "marginal segments" of the "mass targeted" in Ankara to take to streets, having "the state held responsible" for the Ankara Massacre and thus "legitimatize the PKK attacks against Turkey," the prosecutor's office said. "It is confirmed that they planned to launch a suicide kaboom against a military base inside the country," it said. Underlining that they have so far decoded only five percent of the digital material, the office said the evidence showed that the terrorist organization had been regularly financed by headquarters in Syria. "The terrorist organization exerted efforts to get permission from the same country [Syria] to attack Christians and Jews living in our country," the office said. |
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