The Turkish interior ministry said the officials fired included the head of police for the greater Ankara area, as well as his intelligence and public security chiefs, amid accusations of security lapses.
Earlier Wednesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan laid a wreath in front of the city's railway station where two suicide bombers blew themselves up on Saturday in a crowd of leftist and pro-Kurdish activists attending a peace rally.
The government has said ISIS is the prime suspect behind the attack, which also injured more than 500.
- Without giving further details, Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey had received intelligence indicating that the Ankara attack may be linked to Syria, where ISIS extremists have captured swathes of territory up to the Turkish border.
The weekend bombings have raised political tensions to new highs as Turkey prepares for a November 1 snap election, with polarization within the country now greater than ever.
Erdogan has admitted there were security shortcomings but said their magnitude would only be made clear later. He has ordered a top-level probe into the bombings.
- There have been growing indications that the authorities are focusing on possible parallels or even links to a July 20 suicide bombing at a peace rally in Suruc on the Syrian border that killed 34.
The government blamed ISIS for that attack, which also targeted a gathering of pro-Kurdish and leftist activists.
alarabiya.net by AFP
14/10/15
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Turkish PM says 12 detained over Twitter messages on Ankara bombing...
ReplyDeleteTurkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Thursday that 12 people have been detained in connection with messages they wrote on Twitter regarding the suicide bombings in Ankara that killed 99 people.
Davutoğlu was speaking on live television on the TGRT news channel. It was not clear on what grounds the people were detained.
todayszaman.com
15/10/15