The bloodiest and deadliest massacre in the history of the Republic of Turkey took place two years ago, on October 10, 2015. The ruling party AKP’s adventurous moves in Iraq and Syria, which were made so as to demonstrate that they were fully compliant to the plans of the imperialists, echoed in Turkey as massacres, causing hundreds of lives to be lost, leaving many more disabled.
107 people were killed, and more than 500 were injured in the October 10 Massacre in Ankara. However, afterwards, it was seen that the authorities had known the possibility of a massacre, and that no precautions were taken.
On October 10, 2015, the Rally for Peace was to be held in Ankara, with the participation of several political parties, unions, and non-governmental organisations. While the masses were marching towards the rally site, two bombs were detonated in three seconds on two different points in front of the Ankara Train Station, where people were walking on. The youngest one being an 8-year-old boy, 107 people were killed in the massacre.
In the following minutes, the police arrived at the scene long before the medics, and prevented people by tear gas and pressurised water from aiding the injured, blocking the way of the ambulances. What the government did right away was, on the other hand, imposing a broadcast ban on the massacre, slowing down the Internet connection, and banning various websites.
In the aftermath of the massacre, Ankara’s Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that one of the bombers was Yunus Emre Alagöz, the elder-brother of a suicide bomber who had killed 34 people in the Suruç district of the city of Şanlıurfa, Turkey, a few months earlier, on July 20. The Office also stated that the other bomber was at large, and 11 of the 20 suspects who were thought to have helped the attackers were arrested.
It was claimed, however, that Tuncay Kaya, known in Intelligence reports as the "bomb specialist" of the Islamic State (IS), had been released 11 days before the massacre, and started to be searched after following the massacre. None of the officers or authorities were imposed any sanctions due to the incident.
It was also revealed that a report stamped “Confidential”, which involved information as to 3 people who could attempt “sensational” actions, including Yunus Emre Alagöz, had been sent by the Police Intelligence Department to the Anti-Terror Branch of the Police, but it reached its destination after the massacre. All this clearly shows that it was a massacre that could have been seen and prevented in the making.
In the two years following the massacre, nobody has been called or brought to account.
Zeynep Altıok, the main opposition party CHP’s Vice President and Deputy, called attention to the issue on its second anniversary. Stating that the government "decided to ban demonstrations, commemorations, and activities in Ankara right before the massacre’s anniversary, just like the last year", Altıok pointed out that none of those responsible for the massacre or those who acted irresponsibly have been called to account in these two years: the Office of the Governor and the Police Forces who had known that there was going to be a rally in the city for days; those who lit the fuse of the conflicts in Iraq and Syria by sending trucks-load of ammunition and aid to the region; the Prime Minister of the time who admitted that they could not catch the bombers before the bombers attacked, and described IS as "a group of furious people"…
Meral Danış Beştaş, deputy of the opposition party HDP, on the other hand, presented a set of parliamentary questions about the "how"s and "why"s of the massacre to Süleyman Soylu, the Minister of Internal Affairs.
The traces of the October 10 Massacre are still warm. The question of why the authorities did not take any precautions despite the relevant information still lingers. Thus, the massacre continues, and it does not seem to be possible for it to be healed under the conditions, since the trucks loaded with bombs have never crashed the gardens of the palaces, but the lodges where soldiers, children of the people, keep watch. Nothing will change, because the missiles fired by the Islamist terrorists, who were armed by the imperialists and their puppets, have never fallen on the walled ghettos of the rich, but on the streets where the people, the poor live. Nothing will change until the system itself has been changed.
