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| The Grand Turk |
| Trial begins of Islamic State suspects in Turkey's worst suicide bombing |
| 2016-11-08 |
| [REUTERS] More than a dozen suspected members of 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.... appeared under police protection in an Ankara courtroom on Monday accused of involvement in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's deadliest suicide kaboom, which killed more than 100 people in the capital just over a year ago. The defendants were brought into the courtroom under the protection of riot police in body armor and helmets, as families and lawyers of the victims chanted "murderers" and demanded the state also accept responsibility. "If the security measures used to protect the killers today were taken during the rally, the Ankara train station massacre wouldn't have taken place," said Mahmut Tanal, a member of parliament for main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). The defendants were among 36 suspects, some still on the lam, on trial for plotting the double suicide kaboom outside the main train station in Ankara on Oct. 10, 2015, which killed mainly young pro-Kurdish and left-wing activists at a rally. The 35 Turks and one Kazakh face charges of murder, membership of a terrorist organization and seeking to change the constitutional order, according to the indictment. Some face multiple sentences of up to 11,750 years in prison. The twin suicide kaboom took place in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member Turkey 20 days before a fiercely contested general election, raising tensions between the authorities and opposition supporters among the Kurdish community, Turkey's largest minority. "A comprehensive and effective investigation has not been carried out into the bombing. No state officials are accused of neglect in the indictment. How can we expect justice from such a trial?" lawyer Mehtap Sakinci Cosgun, whose husband was killed in the bombing, told Rooters outside the courtroom. Turkish forces have been combating an armed campaign by Kurdish holy warriors while Kurdish political organizations have also been the subject of arrests over the last week. One of the jacket wallahs was identified as Turkish citizen Yunus Emre Alagoz and the other as a Syrian citizen who has yet to be identified, according to the indictment seen by Rooters. Three of the suspects on trial on Monday appeared by video link from the southern city of Gaziantep near the Syrian border, where the Islamic State cell responsible for the attack is thought to have been based. |
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