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   Secret EU report: AKP missioned ISIS for Ankara massacre    
      
   According to a report by EU Analysis (EU INTCEN), the October 10, 2015 suicide   
   bombing of a peace march in Ankara may have been committed on the orders of   
   the AKP.    
      
   Monday, 11 Jun 2018, 11:55   
       
   An EU's official intelligence body EUINTCEN report, of which Ahval has   
   obtained a copy, has suggested that the October 10, 2015 suicide bombing of a   
   peace march outside the Ankara train station may have been committed on the   
   orders of Turkey’s ruling    
   Justice and Development Party (AKP).   
      
   The bombing, in which two bombers belonging to the Islamic State (ISIS) blew   
   themselves up in the midst of a crowd made up largely of leftists and Kurdish   
   sympathisers, was the deadliest terrorist attack in modern Turkish history,   
   killing 109 civilians    
   and injuring 500 more.   
      
   It followed ISIS bombings of a pro-Kurdish political party rally in Diyarbakir   
   on July 5, in which five were killed and over 100 injured, and on a group of   
   leftists in the town of Suruç in Turkey who were planning a trip in   
   solidarity with the Kurdish    
   Syrian town of Kobani on July 20, in which 33 were killed and 104 injured.   
      
   Ahval News stated that the three-page long EUINTCEN report was circulated   
   apparently as an urgent, top classified briefing note, dated October 13, 2015   
   - only three days after the attack.   
      
   “The modus operandi of the attack (suicide bombers) points to Da’esh,”   
   report notes, and offers a conclusion:   
      
   “Given the circumstances (arriving buses with demonstrators not searched,   
   police almost absent at the huge demonstration), there is reason to believe   
   that in this case, forces within the AKP commissioned the Da'esh operatives.”   
      
   The report also described the political situation, in which the Peoples’   
   Democratic Party (HDP), was desperately seeking to calm down renewed violence   
   in Turkey’s southeast in order to retain its seats in parliament at upcoming   
   November 1 elections    
   by overcoming Turkey’s 10 percent electoral threshold.   
      
   On the other hand, the AKP had been deprived of its majority at elections on   
   June 7, and “the last thing Erdogan really wants at this juncture is a   
   Kurdish peace,” the report said.   
      
   At a hearing in the trial over the case in November 2017, the court heard that   
   police had stopped monitoring ISIS bomber Yunus Emre Alagöz 11 days before   
   his brother Yusuf Alagöz carried out the Suruç bombing and three months   
   before he would be one of    
   two bombers involved in the Ankara train station attack.   
      
   A lawyer for the prosecution, Dogukan Tonguç Cankurt, said that police had   
   cancelled their phone tapping of Alagöz on the basis of having collected   
   sufficient evidence on him.   
      
   “If this tapping had continued, maybe neither the Suruç nor the train   
   station massacres would have taken place,” Cankurt said.   
      
   He said that public officials had known what ISIS was doing and they had   
   buried their heads in the sand.   
      
   The fact that it took medical teams 44 minutes to reach the scene of the   
   blasts was clear negligence, another lawyer, Ziynet Çelik, said.   
      
   There were three ambulances within a short distance of the train station, but   
   according to their GPS records one of them left the scene without taking any   
   wounded demonstrators following the blast, and only 16 wounded out of over 500   
   were taken to    
   hospital within the first half hour, she said.   
      
   In contrast, riot police had arrived on the scene with water cannons within 14   
   minutes, she said, and at a similar size, but government-endorsed, open-air   
   meeting the year before there had been 141 first aid specialists, 24   
   ambulances and a crisis centre,   
    Çelik said.   
      
   One of the suspects in the trial, Suphi Alpfidan, claimed that several   
   Gaziantep police officers had known about the bombings and had personally   
   known the ringleaders among the Gaziantep ISIS cell that carried them out.   
      
   Policemen Tahir Sariisik of the Intelligence Branch and Bestami Duman of the   
   Anti-Terrorism Branch, who had been named by Alpfidan, testified that they   
   neither knew nor had spoken to any of the suspects in the case.   
      
   The new round of hearings on the trial is set on June 12 -13.   
      
   In a recent press conference, members of the ''October 10 Lawyers's   
   Committee'' (defence attorneys of the victims) claimed that the case was being   
   dragged deliberately 'to rot' and that the security staff responsible for   
   severe oversights in the    
   surveilllance of the suspects from ISIS were not put on trial in an attempt   
   for a cover up. They accuse the police in the city of Antep for not arresting   
   the suspects despite wiretapping, and 'allowed them' to conduct the massacre.   
      
   Left wing Duvar reported on June 9 that Yunus Durmaz, the prime suspect for   
   planning of the Ankara attack was on the watch list of the Police forces in   
   Gaziantep, including having an arrest warrant on him. Nevetheless the police   
   did not arrest him.   
      
   Yunus Durmaz is known as an emir of the ISIS in Gaziantep and also accused for   
   planning of both the Suruç and the Ankara bombings. According to the same   
   report on Duvar, there was an arrest warrant issued by an Istanbul court on   
   Durmaz on November of    
   2013 but the Gaziantep police did not arrest him.   
      
   It was reported that Durmaz blew himself up during a police raid to his house   
   in Gaziantep, on 19 May 2016.   
      
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