Turkey, which at first avoided any conflict with the terrorist group ISIS, recently changed its stance and allowed the U.S. to launch anti-ISIS strikes from a Turkish airbase.

New reports have said that many Turks have joined ISIS' ranks.

No group is yet known to have claimed responsibility for the blasts.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/10/middleeast/turkey-ankara-bomb-blast/index.html

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Twin bomb blast has hit a road junction in the center of the Turkish capital of Ankara, many feared dead, Doğan News Agency reported.

More than 50 people were injured, according to the Turkish media.



Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20151010/1028303276/ankara-explosion-casualties.html#ixzz3o9MseaC8

details to follow.

"@SlemaniTimes
#BREAKING - Explosion targetted a rally of the pro Kurdish #HDP in Ankara. #TwitterKurds #Turkey #PKK
3:33 AM - 10 Oct 2015"

Sedat Yağcıoğlu at HDP crisis centre:
52 people died immediately, 17 died in hospital: total 69 dead, 230 wounded. Thousands of people are straggled in ‪#?Ankara‬ after the demo was bombed, station off limits.
Marchers nearing Ankara central Kızılay square shouting "Murderer Tayyip Erdoğan.
Trade unionist quoted in SoL: "After the incident, police came shooting gas, firing guns in the air. They were trying to create a massacre."

Ankara bombs were reported by observers to have hit Partizan and HDP groups - i.e. those with links to Kurds fighting in Syria were targeted. Police on the lookout for another bomb in Ulus, Ankara's old town. Protests planned in Ankara and Istanbul at 6pm tonight following bombings.

via: https://twitter.com/06JAnk/

#ankara

It was one a few weeks ago that resulted in Erdogan declaring war on ISIS (and attacking the Kurds).

Latest death count is 86.

ISIS is the obvious suspect, but I wonder about Erdogan and his buddies, too.

The Kurds need a homeland.

It is not the first attack of its kind, there was one last summer. In both cases, who committed the assault remain unknown, but the dead are known: peace activists, Kurds, and protesters against the increasingly authoritarian rule of the Turkish government. I fear that there will be more attacks before the scheduled elections in November; a Turkish friend of mine says that some Turks think that these attacks are part of a government plot to cancel the elections. We shall see, but in the meantime, it is very sad to see a secular Muslim country becoming an increasingly anti-democratic and Islamist state.