No one has claimed responsibility. Suspicion has fallen upon both the Islamic State and Kurdish separatists. In either case, the use of suicide bombers shows up the jihadist aspect of the attack, as the attackers were claiming Allah’s promise of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” (Qur’an 9:111) in his cause.
“Thousands gather in Ankara in aftermath of deadly blasts that killed scores,” by Jethro Mullen and Arwa Damon, CNN, October 11, 2015:
Ankara, Turkey (CNN)Thousands of people gathered in the streets of Ankara on Sunday near the site of two deadly bomb blasts that tore through crowds taking part in a peace rally in the capital a day earlier.
The attack, for which no group has so far claimed responsibility, killed at least 95 people, wounded nearly 250 others and threatened to deepen divisions and distrust in Turkey’s polarized society.
“This was supposed to be a peace rally. This was supposed to be about bringing Turkey together to show unity amongst the Turks and the Kurds and the other ethnic groups. This attack very much has now ripped that apart,” said Sajjan Gohel, the international security director at the Asia-Pacific Foundation in London.
Two suicide bombers are believed to have caused the blasts near the city’s main train station, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in a televised address to the nation.
The atrocity is the deadliest single terrorist attack on Turkish soil and has happened at a politically sensitive time, just three weeks before national elections.
The huge blasts shook high-rise office buildings and left bodies protest banners and flags scattered across the ground….
Most of the victims were attending a lunchtime demonstration calling for an end to the renewed conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish government. Those taking part included the pro-Kurdish HDP, or People’s Democratic Party, which said on Twitter two of its parliamentary candidates were killed in the blasts.
Rallies involving Kurdish groups in Turkey have been hit by bombings three times this year. A suicide attack in the town of Suruc, near the Syrian border, in July killed 34 people. A supporter of the Islamic extremist group ISIS was blamed for carrying out that attack, but the group never claimed responsibility….
The Turkish government recently changed its stance in the fight against ISIS and allowed the U.S. to launch strikes on the militant group’s positions from Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey.
President Barack Obama spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday and “conveyed his deepest personal sympathies for those killed and injured in these heinous attacks, and affirmed that the American people stand in solidarity with the people of Turkey in the fight against terrorism and shared security challenges in the region,” according to a White House statement….
“Shared security challenges” whose ideology we cannot name or examine.
DeMolay says
Robert – I believe Isis has just claimed responsibility.
DrSique says
That would make the most sense. Kurds attacking a pro-kurdish protest gathering would make none. Plus, the use of suicide bombers is very daesh. Bet they didn’t wake up in paradise surrounded by virgins and rivers of honey.
Dr. Divinity says
The only good point here is the fact that this murderer can kill no more and will be with many others of his kind in the fires of hell.
Rhondakelly07 says
this is why. U don’t let the Democrats like Isis. Or drug cartel. Invade ur nations. Deport them all
Ex-muslim says
And other islamic suicide bombers in Chad and Camroune (Africa) and dozens are dead.This evil cult of death is causing havoc across the globe.
cs says
That is just horrific.
Katnis says
That’s a shame. Taking a stance for peace or co-existence breeds violence? Tragic.
DeMolay says
here is some good news
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3268316/ISIS-leader-Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-convoy-hit-Iraqi-air-strike.html
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I know we’re not a nation of laws anymore, that much is certainly true. And I know that having devolved into a nation of lawyers not laws, which is what we are today, also brings into question contacts. Like international treaties. But, that said, the mass murder operation in Turkey represents an opportunity:
1) Terrorism is war
2) The mass murder of 96 in Turkey was an act of war
3) Turkey is an ally, a military ally, a NATO ally
4) The NATO treaty calls for members to attack any who attack a NATO alliance member
5) Moslem activists attacked Turkey
6) This gives us full legal right to attack the attackers
Let’s go to war, on ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al-Nusra and Basar. Let’s go to war on all of them. If fellow NATO allies decline, immediately stop imports of their products into the U.S.A.
Angemon says
I suspect Turkey is not interested in placing boots on the ground against ISIS – there’s still a Kurdish insurrection going on. Plus, cheap oil.
Sam says
No, never to any war with Obama as the spoke person for Islam. Going to war with Obama as the “chief” is like suicide bombing.
Jay Boo says
“3) Turkey is an ally, a military ally, a NATO ally”
Huh!
In name only
Turkey is directly responsible for mass murder in Syria and Iraq.
We should drop bombs on Islamo-fascist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Basar is less of a problem than Erdogan
kay says
Erdogan let 25,000 foreign jihadis into Islamic State proper.
He’s a big fan of Islamic State.
He wants to clobber both the Alawites in Damascus AND the Kurds in Iraq.
He also wants to overrun Israel.
Seems like you didn’t get the memo.
Erdogan is a major bad guy, a Sunni anti-Shia sociopath. A would be fascist autocratic ruler. He is feared and despised by many.
Where do you think Islamic State sells the oil?
Re: “mass murder of 96 in Turkey was an act of war”
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So, who declared war? This could be Turkey’s Erdogan massacring the Turkish Kurds. He always wants to kill them anyway and their conflict has heated up this year. They repeatedly attack each other.
Re: ” If fellow NATO allies decline, immediately stop imports of their products into the U.S.A.”
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Sorry, but that makes no sense.
1) The Europeans don’t want more American-led wars.
2) The Europeans have to really worry greatly about Russia’s Putin.
3) The Europeans have their hands full with unprecedented influxes of foreign migrants.
Re: Angemon: “I suspect Turkey is not interested in placing boots on the ground against ISIS.”
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Turkey PREVENTED aid from crossing the border to the Kurdish towns for several critical months.
Turkey BLOCKED American use of their major air base Incirlik to resupply the Kurds.
Erdogan and the Turkish intelligence service are the ENEMY, pure and simple.
This was clear many months ago. Did people not hear about the Kurdish border town of Kobane? It was in the news for weeks and months.
Turkey is evil. Erdogan wants to be the new Caliph.
We really want to NOT help any would-be Caliphs.
Can we talk about something real?
kay says
Turkey’s Erdogan is pro-Islamic State and making war on the Kurds.
http://kurdishdailynews.org/2015/10/12/witnesses-police-attack-increased-the-number-of-casualties-in-ankara/
‘POLICE ATTACK INCREASED THE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES’
I can say that many of the wounded lost their lives due to the police attack which caused casualties as many as the blasts did. Police opened fire on the mass and the wounded. How could such a thing ever happen? Where else in the world did such a case take place, with police shooting at the people wounded in a bomb attack?…
“The people who wanted to help the wounded were attacked by police with tear gas, bullets and water cannons. The health workers joining the rally were going to perform emergency response on dozens of people who were slightly injured but suffering a loss of blood. The police attack didn’t allow them to do so, because of which we lost dozens of comrades of ours.
http://kurdishdailynews.org/2015/10/11/protesters-gather-at-scene-of-ankara-bombings-128-dead/
http://kurdishdailynews.org/2015/09/16/prof-michael-gunter-turkeys-attacks-against-kurds-support-isis/
Meanwhile by Turkey renewing its struggle against the PKK, Turkey will be now battling the main anti-ISIS coalition boots on the ground forces in Syria …
http://kurdishdailynews.org/2015/06/06/turkish-elections-turkeys-kurd-hating-grey-wolves-spreading-neo-nazi-poison-across-europe/
http://kurdishdailynews.org/2015/07/25/turkey-blocks-kurdish-websites-to-hide-its-terror-against-the-kurds/
Currently, more than 81,000 websites are blocked in Turkey, according to monitoring website Engelli Web.
http://kurdishdailynews.org/2015/07/30/kurdish-party-chief-dismisses-turkey-anti-is-raids-as-a-show/
Demirtas said that the air strikes on IS were “used as cover” for the far more extensive bombings of PKK positions. For almost a week, Turkish army jets have pounded Kurdish militant targets inside Turkey and in neighbouring northern Iraq.
http://kurdishdailynews.org/2015/08/19/kurdish-forces-repell-attemted-turkish-incursion-into-iraqi-kurdistan/
http://kurdishdailynews.org/2015/07/30/rodi-hevian-turkeys-non-existing-war-on-isis-and-its-terror-against-the-kurds/
kay says
A guide to Turkey’s politics and the PKK
http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/guide-turkey-and-kurds-1907278290
As violence between the PKK and Islamic State continues in Kobane, the different players in the long running Turkey-PKK conflict examine their options.
Bangu says
Thank You.
Westman says
There seems to be a trend toward world violence becoming connected in some way to Islam, particularly when it involves suicide attacks.
Fundamental Islam, following the example of Muhammad, is just another non-productive entity that lives off the productivity of others. Find the warlords anywhere in the world and it will be the same parasitism even if not Islamic.
Could it be that Islam is becoming the ideology of choice for parasitic militants because it glorifies and promotes conflict for Allah, promises an eternal reward, provides an orderly division of the spoils, and requires no central authority to approve the rise of self-appointed warlord/clerics?
Imagine two books, a Bible and Quran, dropped from the sky on an Alien Planet with enough other materials to create a “rosetta stone” to decipher the languages. Which book will cause the most trouble for the Aliens if translated and published in their language?
Walter Sieruk says
As for those deceptive and manipulative Muslim clerics,as those imams, who thoroughly brainwash other people and then use them as tools and stooges to send them out to engage in the murderous jihad as human bombs. The whole point is if those Muslim clerics who who commit the mind programming of others in the deadly jihad mindset. Those Muslim clerics then should go out themselves and commit the suicide bombings if they really believe that doing so is such a grand and wonderful thing to do. That those imams never do the jihad “martyrdom” action only exposes what insincere cowards and villains they really are.
Roger says
This has all the hallmarks of an attack by the Grey Wolves to implicate the PKK.
Sam says
I wonder if this is somehow related to Islam?
Mazo says
The bombing targeted Communist Marxist pro-PKK Kurds and Communist Marxist Turks who were protesting. They were protesting against the right wing Turkish government’s war on Kurds and against American imperialism. Some of the demonstrators were holding banners with hammers and sickles and slogans against American imperialism.
http ://www.liveleak. com/view?i=fe0_1444468537
Many Communist and leftist Turks sympathsize with Kurds and the Communist Marxist PKK.
The bombing was most likely carried out by a right-wing Turkish ultra-nationalist fascist who hate Kurds and Communists.
In the 1970’s and 1980’s during the Cold War, the American CIA supported the right wing Turkish ultra nationalist fascist Grey Wolves in massacring and assasinating leftist Communist Kurds and Communist Turks. America supported the right wing Turkish nationalist government in suppressing and crushing Kurds.
kay says
Re: “The bombing was most likely carried out by a right-wing Turkish ultra-nationalist fascist who hate Kurds and Communists.”
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You’re guessing.
This is in fact a double suicide bombing. This has NOTHING to do with the Americans.
The attack is similar to the earlier suicide bombing against Turkish Kurds, AND the Kurds report that the police followed up the suicide bombing by attacking the Kurds trying to provide emergency medical care. ( See the references I give above in my multiple post. )
Turkey ( “the deep state” ) has been working WITH Islamic State for many months, and working AGAINST the United States. This bloodthirsty action is NOT about American / Middle Eastern political alignments of thirty years ago.
The United States necessarily opposes Islamic State and to some extent supports the Kurds ( in Iraq ). The US also has some co-operation with the vicious Erdogan regime.
The imperialism here is Sunni imperialism, such as Erdogan’s Sunni jihad imperialism against Damascus and strong co-operation with Islamic State.
This demonstrated Sunni Islamofascism is obviously not American.
In overall terms It is Turkish, Saudi, Syrian, Iraqi, and has the direct involvement of jihadis from ninety ( 90 ) nations.
This has nothing to do with Marxism-Leninism nor with earlier anti-imperialism as you claim. This is all about deepening and spreading jihad. Marxist analysis is proven worthless.
This is a ramp up to a Third World War driven by Sunni Islamofascism and answered now very directly by Russia.
It is continuing jihad against the Kurds. That is NOT what the Americans are doing. Your attempt to claim this is Kurdish Marxism opposing the Americans is ridiculous.
I have cited current Kurdish news reports ( above ). So much for deflection and taqiyyah.
Why don’t you write another stupid post here on the wonders of Arab music? The Arab “music” I hear is mainly the Arab / Sunni call to global jihad, the murder, rape, and enslavement of innocents. In Iraq, in Nigeria. And coming soon to Europe.
O’Children – Nick Cave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQL5zdEy-3k
Currently there are fourteen million refugees in Syria, Iraq and Yemen due to Islamic civil war, and in 2015 this Islam-driven crisis is spilling over to Europe and causing massive problems there.
Matters will get far worse for millions of people. All because of an inherently bloodthirsty religious ideology. War is hell. And so is Islam. Fourteen centuries of bloody Islamofascist hell.
bomboclaat says
i think you missed the PKK conversion from marxist leninist views to anarchist murray bookchin’s ideas of basic democratic confederalism some time ago. her some links to that subject:
https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCEQFjAAahUKEwjEqvzMvL3IAhVmqXIKHV1qCQU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freeocalan.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F09%2FOcalan-Democratic-Confederalism.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFHH1am9NM7jLacdjNYNpzPISYVQQ
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-meaning-of-confederalism
both in pdf form:. those ideas don’t have anything in common with autoritarian communist ideas and are way more democratic than any existing state form on earth.
Jay Boo says
Islam thrives on political chaos.
Muslims embrace angry DUTY and crazed VANITY to assuage their lack true faith.
Even five prayers a day cannot alone keep the ever present sense of Islam’s bitter emptiness at bay. Islam cannot survive peace.
Allan Mandrowski says
It wouldn’t make sense for Kurdish Separatists to blow up their own.
This is either Erdogan’s work or ISIS’s. Or both.
David says
I don’t dispute that extremists use an evil, distorted interpretation of the Quran as an excuse for terrorism albeit a corrupt interpretation with a lot of cherry picking.
I don’t dispute that they are using their religion in a wrong, evil manner.
But there is no solution except to discard Islam entirely. Islam was meant for a barbaric, lawless age where there were no prisons or laws or courts or constitution or police to stop brutalities and oppression of innocent men, women and children. Islam was designed to be harsh in nature to civilise a barbaric race.
But humanity has moved on and we are a civilised race now and Islam is no good for our age and must be left in the past.
The Quran is not for our age nor were its teachings ever meant for a nuclear age.
Just like Christians await the second coming to bring a new heaven and a new earth so too Muslims have prophecies about this but have deliberately chosen to ignore the Quran’s promise that it would be superseded
A trumpet blow signifies an announcement.
The Qur’an says, “The trumpet will be sounded, when all that is in the heavens and the earth will swoon away, except such as it will please God to exempt. Then will a second one be sounded, when, behold, they will be standing and looking on!” (Qur’an 39:68)
This verse signifies the ending of the Quranic Dispensation (earth and heaven swooning away) and two announcements that is by Two Prophets of a new age with new teachings.
There is no solution for terrorism until Muslims accept that Islam is not meant for our age and the time has come for them to move on and accept the new universal age that humanity has entered where no one race, religion, nation or culture is superior to another. Until they can accept we are all one human family there will be no end to this strife for all their policies are based upon Muslim supremacy which is contrary to the spirit of the age we live in.
Westman says
And contrary to reality.
Angemon says
David posted:
“I don’t dispute that extremists use an evil, distorted interpretation of the Quran as an excuse for terrorism albeit a corrupt interpretation with a lot of cherry picking.”
They don’t – they strive to practice islam as closely as it was practiced by muhammad. They abide by orthodox islam.
Bandit 4 says
TURKEY DID IT…Why do so many assume this wasn’t done by Turkey itself? Doesn’t ISIS yell immediately when their operations are successful? I haven’t heard that…but those running the Turkish government (running their own sort of jihad) sure did gain from this…
kay says
Yes, technically this is jihad by the Turkish regime of the Islamofascist Erdogan.
By his words and actions Erdogan is explicitly a Sunni jihadi who co-operates very well with Islamic State. I have given references and discussion above.
The Turkish police definitely have blood on their hands in this major incident, and the Erdogan regime may well have been informed beforehand that a major attack was to take place. Vicious Sunni scum and bloody hell.
Falsafa says
to those avid readers and followers of Mr Spencers blogs, whilst I respect your views and appreciate your right to express them…shouldnt you at least show some decency and offer your condolences to the families of the victims and critically injured of this unspeakable act of terror…you may or may not agree with the current or past governments of the Republic of Turkey…and yes the policies pursued “or lack of it” in dealing with the middle eastern chaos which is in our hands at the moment – beginning with the toppling of the Saddam dictatorhip in Iraq in a region not able or mature enough to handle pluralistic democracy, lighting the fire which has lead to this chaos – has not been effective in dealing with this chaos to say the least.
kay says
Re: “shouldnt[sic] you [ readers ] at least show some decency …” and “toppling of the Saddam dictatorhip” [sic] and “chaos”
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Well, that was dumb. Not show decency? The original Robert Spencer post is by definition a memorial to Kurds murdered by the Islamic fascists, and an important statement against the Sunni fanatics like Erdogan and the Islamic State jihadis who want to exterminate the Kurds, the Alawites and so forth.
Let’s diagram the ISLAMIC source of the pain. The big problem was the ( Muslim ) Iraq versus ( Muslim ) war which killed over one million. The next problem was the Shia Sunni civil war which has killed 240,000 and made refugees out of 14 million ( in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen ). Those grave issues and crises are INTERNAL to Islam.
The US SAVED Kuwait and knocked out the fascist Saddam Hussein, at the small price of 220,000 Baathist deaths ( no loss ). For which ALL the Shia in Iraq and Iran should be eternally grateful. Yeah, Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims are not ready for democracy and co-operation; Iraq and Syria and Yemen are the proof!
Sunni Muslim culture and Shia Muslim culture are sick and barbaric and savage overall. More proof needed? Look ALSO at Somalia, Libya, Sudan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Sudan, and Central African Republic ( failed Seleka coup ).
The core problem is this: Muslims are barbarians and savages. Far too many are sociopaths ( 20% ) and psychopaths ( 20% ). And you criticize people HERE?
The Muslims ENDLESSLY condemn the American attack on the Afghan Taliban, but America politely asked the Taliban to hand over Osama Bin Laden FIRST. So technically, the Taliban supported 9/11. And they shoot and poison little girls. I am sick of reminding the apologist carpet pilots about the Taliban, and of Iraq/ Iran.
Killing, abducting, torturing, raping and weaponizing kids is a big pastime among the Sunni. ( They prefer that to football, making out, rock and roll, yoga and Tolkien. )
The “decent” thing would be to minimize child harm and admit the truth: Islam is bogus, a massive failure and the worst thing that ever happened to humanity, worse than Fascism and Communism put together. Clearly, NOTHING is more shameful or more worthless than being Muslim! Muslims have no culture. They went full retard.
Islam is oppression and death, Sharia and jihad. And fourteen centuries of crimes against humanity. Maybe THAT you should worry about INSTEAD. Muslim culture is inherently REGRESSIVE and fascist, and CANNOT be reformed. My condolences.
“Sometimes we gotta dig deeper to mine the true emotional paydirt. Thus we can diagram the source of the pain and live it.”
kay says
Wrote: The big problem was the ( Muslim ) Iraq versus ( Muslim ) war. . .
Should be:
The big problem was the ( Muslim ) Iraq versus ( Muslim ) IRAN war which killed over one million.
Wrote: Sunni Muslim culture and Shia Muslim culture are sick and barbaric and savage overall. More proof needed? Look ALSO at Somalia, Libya, Sudan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Sudan, and Central African Republic ( failed Seleka coup ).
Should be:
Add Iran, Islamic State and supporters Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
Wrote: Killing, abducting, torturing, raping and weaponizing kids is a big pastime among the Sunni.
Should be:
Add the Iranian Shia mullahs for rape and murder of girls ( Evin prison ) AND the use of underage boys as cannon fodder in the Iraq / Iran war.
Re The “decent” thing would be to minimize child harm and admit the truth: Islam is bogus, a massive failure. . .
Add: Aside from all the Islamic violence, in which two hundred million have been killed, there is also the serious problem of the Koran being incoherent due to the false ordering, the abrogations, and the interpretive contexts:
An Historical Critique of Islam’s Beginnings – Jay Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9lIuUjPs0
Finally, re Falsafa: “shouldnt you at least show some decency and offer your condolences to the families of the victims…”
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You weren’t paying attention. I brought in a funeral dirge from Nick Cave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQL5zdEy-3k
Here is another instance.
(HQ) Harry & Hermoine Dance to O’Children by Nick Cave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5n7e6tCZbM
There is NO religion in the path of hatred. And nobody owns us.
Liberte’. Egalite’. Fraternite’. Laicite’. Authenticite’. Solidarite’.