[Hurriyet Daily News] Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chair of the People's Democratic Party (HDP) whose members are among the victims of the Oct. 10 Ankara attack, harshly criticized both government and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
for poor inspection on recent similar attacks.
"We have lost almost 150 of our people before and after the elections," he said in Ankara, referring to the June 7 elections that failed to produce a one-party or coalition government but brought the HDP to the parliament as a party group as it surpassed the 10 percent election threshold. "There is nobody who has been designated as 'responsible' around. There is no effective investigation. There will be none regarding today's attack either. This is not an attack against unity of our state and nation. This is an attack by our nation against our people," he said.
According to official figures, 86 people were killed at the attack at the start of a peace rally in the Turkish capital, as dozens remained in intensive care or surgery.
"Until this day, No perpetrator has been revealed. They are able to arrest somebody just because he tweeted. They are able to arrest somebody just upon an order by the palace," Demirtas said, in an apparent reference to President Erdogan.
"From our perspective, this is not a dark and deep attack or an attack which is launched by external forces," he said.
On June 5, two days before the general elections, four people died in a twin kaboom on a HDP rally in Diyarbakir, one of the strongholds of the party in the southeast, where Demirtas was scheduled to address the crowd. He then called calm after the attack.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
is once again heading for a re-election on Nov. 1.
A sum of 33 people died in a July 20 attack on a socialist youth group by the 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) in the southeastern district of Suruc.
Demirtas, who likened the Ankara attack to Suruc and Diyarbakir raids, questioned why none of the governmental or bureaucratic authority has so far acknowledged failure and presented their resignation.