Turkish special services were aware of terrorist attack, says political analyst (video)
It is not excluded that Turkish special services were aware of the terrorist attack that took place in Ankara on October 10, political analyst Sergey Minasyan told A1+. “In fact, it was used as a major factor by the Turkish authorities at this pre-election period,” the political analyst said. The country will hold early elections on November 1 which might be fatal for [President] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Mr Minasyan says much depends on whether Erdoğan’s AKP will be able to distract voters' attention from Kurdish forces which are involved in the political struggle. “Naturally, the terrorist attack can be advantageous to the authorities in terms of securing more votes during the elections,” he said. Ankara blames the attack on "Islamic state" terrorists though it does not exclude the participation of Kurds. President of the “Kurdistan Committee” Zhenya Amiryan said in this connection: “How can Kurds be suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in a place where members of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party are dancing together with peace-loving Turks? There are even photos and videos available which show that 70 percent of people gathered on the site were Kurds. Kurds cannot simply do such a thing, it is impossible. The London-based human rights group Amnesty International has criticized the attack and accused Kurdish militants of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing. Zhenya Amiryan considers the accusations to be fiction. Ankara also urges Russia and the United States to refrain from providing weapons to the Kurds fighting in Syria, fearing that they will strengthen the Turkish-Syrian border, stimulating distrust and separatist sentiments in Turkey. Relations between Russia and Turkey are also tense against the background of escalating crisis in Syria. Sergey Minasyan says it is not accidental that Turkish helicopters were spotted in the airspace of Armenia last week. That was Turkey’s response to Russia following Russian aircraft’s incursion into its airspace on October 3 and 4. Sergey Minasyan says the violation of the airspace of a country was last recorded during the Cold War.
