Trouble In Turkey
Turkey enters mourning after Ankara blasts killed almost 100:
Turkey is beginning three days of mourning after two blasts at a peace rally in the capital Ankara killed at least 95 people on Saturday, the deadliest ever such attack in Turkey.
The attack left 245 people injured, with 48 of them in a serious condition.
TV footage showed scenes of panic and people lying on the ground covered in blood, amid protest banners.
The government called the blasts a “terrorist act” and angrily rejected allegations that it was to blame.
People were demonstrating against the ongoing violence between the PKK [Kurdish separatists] and Turkish forces. The bombs could have been detonated by groups associated with the PKK, or the Turkish government, or ISIS, or some other homicidal group of whackoes looking for some media coverage.
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Yeah, I saw the coverage. I don’t know what to think. There’s so many sides in a place that literally defined the term “byzantine politics” that anybody could be trying to frame anybody, nevermind the usual suspects when there’s violence against anti-government protesters (i.e., the government or supporters of the government).
The KGB used to fund the neofascists in Turkey because they didn’t trust the socialists to cause enough trouble. It could be related to an FSB effort given how much the Turks and Russians hate each other.
Yeah, even if they identify the actual people who detonated the explosives, we probably won’t actually know who was behind it.