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Protests Erupt In Turkey As Government Accused Of False Flag In Weekend Suicide Blast

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For those who might still be unaware, Turkey is playing a large role in perpetuating violence across the Mid-East. 

A few months back, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally decided to allow US warplanes to fly sorties from Incirlik, it was fairly obvious what what was going on. Erdogan had just lost his absolute majority in parliament which is a bigger deal than it might sound. That majority was critical for Erdogan in his bid to alter the constitution and consolidate his power. Adding insult to injury, the AKP’s lost ground at the ballot box was partially the result of a strong showing by the pro-Kurdish HDP. Given the, how shall we say, “contentious” relationship between Ankara and the PKK, that was a bitter pill to swallow.

So, what Erdogan did, is effectively start a civil war by reigniting the conflict with the Kurds. This was done under the guise of a “war on terror” (and when you think about it, what isn’t done under the guise of a “war on terror” these days?) and NATO gave its blessing in exchange for access to Incirlik and a (largely fake) promise from Erdogan that part of his war would be focused on ISIS. 

For Erdogan, the idea was to stir up fear amongst the populace in an effort to boost support for AKP. Once that plan was put into motion, he then moved to stymie the coalition building process. Once he had sabotaged that completely, the path was clear for him to call for new elections. 

In short, this was a gambit to subvert the democratic process by stoking violence which Ankara hopes will lead to stronger support for AKP at the ballot box in November. That, in turn, would pave the way for Erdogan’s power play. Thanks to the fact that Erdogan is a US “ally” in the war on terror, this whole thing gets the Good Housekeeping seal of Western approval.

You’d be hard pressed to concoct a more tragically ridiculous ploy if you tried. Erdogan is simply trying to scare the people into voting for AKP but he’s not doing this in a vacuum. That is, Turkey is right next to Syria and indeed, there have long been rumors that Ankara tacitly supported ISIS. Meanwhile, the Kurdish YPG are fighting ISIS just across the border and the PKK have long accused the Turkish government of supporting terrorists (well, “terrorists” other than themselves that is). So Erdogan should have realized that this political gamble would be impossible to control - there are just too many moving parts and too many people who Ankara had to have known would smell a rat right from the start. That means either one of three things was destined to happen: i) the PKK would be so furious they would start a widespread civil war, ii) the plan wouldn't work and HDP would retain support causing Ankara to step up false flag attacks in a desperate attempt to double down on the "terror" in order to scare voters ahead of November, or iii) some combination of both.

Sure enough, the violence has now escalated to the point that some than 130 people were killed on Saturday in a pair of blasts - at a peace rally no less. Erdogan said the blasts “target [Turkey’s] unity and brotherhood [and] the aim is to make enemies of different groups in the society.”

He is of course exactly right, although because HDP was participating in the rally, blaming the PKK is far-fetched, which leads one to raise serious questions about possible false flags and because no false flag attack would be complete without the mention of the biggest geopolitical smokescreen ever created, Ankara says it suspects ISIS. Of course, as mentioned above, many suspect Ankara of cooperating with the very same Islamic State the government claims to be fighting and none of this is lost on HDP. Here’s more from Bloomberg (note the mention of the bombing at Suruc which kicked off this entire bloody debacle back in July and which we suggested seemed suspect) :

  • Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP calls on intl community to extend condolences to Turkish people, “not to the state representatives who are politically and administratively responsible for the massacre.”
  • "AKP’s policy of relying on radical groups as proxies, which began with President Erdogan’s support of, and even channeling through the intelligence organization MIT, the activities of such groups as ISIS, Al-Nusra, and Ahrar Al- Sham — used particularly against Kurds in Rojava — is at the heart of today’s tragedy’’
  • Accuses AKP-led govt of seeking to escalate violence to try and push HDP below the 10% election threshold
  • Claims “clear links” between bombing of HDP rally on June 5, attack in Suruc on July 20 and Saturday’s bombing of a peace rally in Ankara
  • "We see no political accountability with regards to this bloodiest attack in the history of republic. On the contrary, their public statements show a readiness to blame the victims of this attack and our party’’
  • Expresses concern that investigation may be “hidden from public scrutiny”
  • Statement dated Oct. 12 and signed by Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, HDP co-chairs

But don't worry, because these theories are nonsense according to Ankara and prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu is purportedly "close to getting one name" and "has a list of potential suicide bombers."

Obviously that's completely ridiculous, and Turkey's citizens aren't buying it either. Here's AFP:

Anger towards President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over Turkey's worst-ever terrorist attack intensified as authorities raced to identify the two male suicide bombers it blamed for the bloodshed.

 

The streets of Ankara filled with anti-government and pro-Kurdish protesters accusing the government of responsibility for the blast that ripped through a peace rally a day earlier, with several shouting "Erdogan murderer" and "government resign!"

 

In Istanbul on Saturday, a 10,000-strong crowd accused the government of failing to protect citizens by providing security for the event, carrying placards reading "the state is a killer" and "we know the murderers".

 

As tributes poured in from world leaders, Selahattin Demirtas, leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), was cited as saying "State attacked the people. Condolences recipient should be the people not Erdogan" on the party's Twitter account.

 

In an emotional address to mourners in Ankara, Demirtas said that citizens should aim to end Erdogan's rule, starting with the upcoming legislative elections.

 

"We are not going to act out of revenge and hatred. But we are going to ask for (people to be held to) account," he added, saying the vote would be part of a process to "topple the dictator."

Here are some images from the protests sweeping the country on Monday where police have broken out the tear gas:

And more from WSJ:

“There were too many wounded, tens of dead, body pieces scattered around, and people screaming,” said Onder Bayindir, who was among demonstrators in front of Ankara’s train station in the immediate aftermath of the blasts.

 

“People were dying as we tried to help them, collapsing in our hands as we waited for ambulances,” said Mr. Bayindir, who had also volunteered in a nearby hospital. “We didn’t know what to do. We were also in shock.”

 

Political leaders traded barbs over the attack, a sign that political divisions were hardening ahead of Nov. 1 elections.

 

“The state wasn’t able to prevent a massacre right in the middle of Ankara,” Selahattin Demirtas, head of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, or HDP, said at Sunday’s rally. “Instead, it enabled it,” he said, accusing the government of allowing the attack.

We realize this is all impossibly convoluted and it's made even more so by Turkey's role in Syria's civil war, but the takeaway, as we've explained before, is this: this is a NATO member, run by a US-sponsored President, who is accused by political opponents of not only supporting ISIS, but of using the group as an excuse to start a civil war and possibly to carry out attacks on peaceful protesters. Here, for reference, is a helpful list of key events (via Gefira):

  1. June, the AKP failed to secure a majority in parliament. Erdo?an has to shelve his plan to enlarge the executive power of the president. The emergence of HDP was applaud by Brussels and the international press. Gefira immediately warned for political upheaval and estimated that there would be a reelection
  2. July, Turkey and US agreed to attack terrorists from incirlik air base. Gefira directly predicted that Turkey will never accept the reemergence of a Kurdish autonomous region in Syria and that the unfolding situation will result in more violence within Turkey and could lead the state of emergency and the postponing of the elections.
  3. July 21 The suicide attack in Suluc killed 32 Kurds and was the beginning of the war with the PKK, leaving hundreds of people dead. The AKP opponents accused the AKP and Turkish security service MIT complicit in the Suluc attack
  4. August – September, Turkish press was attacked by mobs, the Turkish government raided news papers for insulting Erdo?an. Many foreign journalist were detained and extradited.
  5. September, the on estimate 3 million refugees that are displaced in Turkey for more than 3 years started their march on Europe.
  6. October, Erdo?an visits Brussels. Europe express sympathy for Turkey and promise to pay for refugees in Turkey. Brussels and Turkey plead to revive the Turkish access process
  7. Bomb attack in Ankara killed almost 100 peace activists, Erdo?an opponents.

And this is the same Turkey who is supposedly one of Washington's greatest allies in the "war on terror" and is also the corridor for Mid-East refugees fleeing to Europe. As Reuters put it, "at stake is the stability of a NATO country seen by the West as a bulwark against Middle Eastern turmoil."

Ultimately, the absurdities run so deep here that it's nearly impossible to disentangle them, but at the end of the day, just be wary of Turkish despots bearing ballot boxes.

 

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Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:32 | 6658793 chunga
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Washington's allies aren't very nice.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:46 | 6658869 22winmag
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The word on the street is Turkey employed the very accurate and deadly Winchester lever-action rifles acquired from the U.S. Army in the Armenian genocide (conveniently not recognized by the U.S. Gov't)

 

Shit never changes.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:28 | 6659107 Latina Lover
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Of course it was a false flag.... who  benefited, other than Erdogan?  Are we really to believe that the crime is already solved, that Assad ordered the Kurds to bomb a peace rally marching in their favor?

 

The good news is that many turks are seeling through the scam. This will not end well for Erodgan.

 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:53 | 6659262 Nenad
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Obama will not finish his second term! Current Events Linked to Ancient Biblical Prophecy!

http://motivationdose.com/is-america-babylon/

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:22 | 6659428 Rockatanski
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i dont wanna wait til 2017. not getting any younger ya know.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:35 | 6659488 Fairly_Uncertain
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2799924/mystery-american-journal...

 

Remeber Serena Shim?  She was killed because she reported ISIS using NGO vehicles to transport arms and personnel into Syria from Turkey.  This will not end well at all.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 15:33 | 6659723 ZD1
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Killed?

Serena Shim and her cousin Judy Irish were returning to their hotel when their car collided with a cement truck. The vehicle driver was subsequently arrested.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:26 | 6658897 Paveway IV
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"...Washington's allies aren't very nice..."

Washington itself isn't very nice - in fact it's evil incarnate. Isn't the next phase of the Total Mideast Chaos Plan by ZATO Team Evil to destabilize Turkey? You know they really don't give a shit about Erdogan. He was a useful idiot while they softened up Iraq and Syra, but it's time to throw that gangster under the bus.

Not that I couldn't believe that Turkish Intelligence is capable of or willing to kill as many Turkish Kurds as possible. It's just that the bigger psychopaths in the room - U.S. and Israeli Intelligence - are looking to keep their domination and land-stealing plans in motion. Driving Turkey into chaos and war before/during/after Turkish elections is next on the menu.

World Domination Step X: Manufacture a Kurdish uprising to create a Kurdish state from Iraqi, Syria and Turkish Kurd areas. Now that the Kurdish Regional Government is thoroughly corrupt and filled with U.S. and Israeli puppets and spies, it's time to create a larger Kurdistan. This will, of course, be an Arab Spring "The Kurdish people just want liberty and democracy" type thing, enthusiastically supported by the West. It would make a good future ZATO member and give the West plenty of access to the Middle East, a stable pipeline route, and a corridor to attack Iran. 

Never mind the HDP was making great progress for the Turkish Kurds already. Those fuckers won't obey Israel and the U.S. - all the HDP cares about are Kurds. Where's the money in that for the U.S.? Fuck that - plant a few pressure-cooker bombs at their rally and let suspicions fall on the Turkish government. Go Team Evil! (Academi/Xe snipers: please report to your positions immediately)

The plan is already falling apart because the Iraqi Kurds are starting to revolt against the corrupt, psychopathic U.S. and Israeli-controlled KRG and their Kurdish puppet Barzani. His presidency ended a couple of months ago, but he as failed to either step down or call elections. The last ZATO puppet Hadi did the same thing in Yemen before the U.S. manufactured civil war there. Hey - stick with what works.

Next up for ZATO's PR arm (the MSM): Drum up emotional support for an independent Kurdish state and back ZATO-corrupted KRG and their stooge - KDP's psychopath Barzani - as 'Kurdish freedom fighters' while branding the average Kurd that wants to kick the U.S.'s corrupt cronies ass out as 'extremist insurgents' and 'terrorists'.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:32 | 6659138 Latina Lover
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Good analysis. Next best thing for the USSA after ISIS would be a puppet Kurdistan.  But the games are too transparent, and in the arab world, they have a saying:  The only thing worse than being an enemy of Amerika, is to be their Ally.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:37 | 6659177 Gazooks
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I didn't know until this very moment

 

 

..that it was Barzani all along

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:46 | 6659231 fudge
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destabilize Turkey

Is there a better way to break Montreux ? No access to the Med for the Black Sea Fleet would things very difficult for Russia.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:51 | 6658900 Hans-Zandvliet
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You are too polite ;-)

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 15:18 | 6659679 SWRichmond
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Washington's allies aren't very nice.

And, by actually fighting ISIS, Putin positions himself as an actual friend of the actual peace in Turkey. 

So on the one hand, Turkey can remain a friend of the West, and in NATO, and continue escalating the bloodshed against its own people, or.....

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:34 | 6658800 thecondor
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Same as it ever was.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:36 | 6658809 RopeADope
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One has to be rather bird brained to take a page from the Obama playbook...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:36 | 6658812 outlaw.guru
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Just remember that 1/5 to 1/4 of Turkish territory has a majority of Kurds and at the same time 1/5 to 1/4 of population is Kurdish. This could be a big problem even for such a great regional force as Turkey.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:41 | 6658821 Dr. Engali
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At least they have enough sense to question their government and not just accept the official narrative. Pull it bitch.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:39 | 6658823 frankly scarlet
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Ergodan's days are numbered as he is pissing everyone off; but especially the CIA, the Russiaians and the good people of Turkey with elections in Nov.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:40 | 6658832 NRGIsFree
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Washington and it's nasy allies soon to be on the wrong side of history. Go Bears!

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:42 | 6658839 HyeM
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The above analysis describes standard Turkish Modus Operandi: they create an internal boogie-man and begin exterminating those people; all in order to consolidate power and control. They did so back in 1915 when they committed Genocide on the Christian Armenians (killing over 1.5 million Armenians), also in the process ethnically cleansing Greeks and Assyrians. 100 years later nothing has changed, they have only refined their tactics. ISIS exhibits classic Turkish brutality. Everything ISIS does today, the Turks did in 1915, only the Turks did so in a much greater scale. The Western powers today, just like 100 years ago, will look the other way because it is in their geo-politically interest to do so, while the innocent continue to die.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:45 | 6658843 All Out Of Bubblegum
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When will a critical mass of Americans wake up to the false flags being pulled on American soil by their own "government"?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:12 | 6658990 Hans-Zandvliet
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@All Out Of Bubblegum

Maybe when the next banking crisis hits and they get robbed of their last jobs, homes and savings.

But more likely, they will just go berserk, plundering shopping centers and shooting eachother, while still remaining unaware of what their government is doing (especially what it's doing abroad).

 

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:44 | 6658849 22winmag
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Cui bono?

 

The South was right.

 

Cops love steroids.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:44 | 6658851 Blopper
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Worst "hairstyle" than Donald Trump.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:04 | 6658965 RaceToTheBottom
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Only thing missing is bird crap mousse?

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:45 | 6658859 I woke up
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Expecting the gov't to be there to help, that's a good one

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:50 | 6658892 NubianSundance
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Not forgetting the Armenian genocide...1.5m people slaughtered by Turkey, they have considerable form when it comes to massacres. Funny how that is conveniently forgotten.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 18:12 | 6660420 Lucky Leprachaun
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Well it kinda undermines the market potential of the Real Homocaust™.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:56 | 6658926 WTFRLY
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:31 | 6658930 Parallelogram
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'There have long been rumors that Ankara tactily supported ISIS'..

I suppose that Ankara leaving Turkish borders open to permit ISIS supply trucks through is a tad more overt than tacit.

For more information about this symbiotic relationship between Ankara and ISIS, I refer you to the link below. The article contians a medley of references to the ISIS/ Turkey cooperation.   Help yourself to the insights.

http://wtfrly.com/2015/02/27/anonymous-op-white-house-ignores-serena-shi...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:04 | 6658966 coast
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turkey is sooo 80's.  get with the times Turkey and demolish a couple high rise buildings...make sure they fall freefall speed in their own footprint then blame it on 19 cavemen....dont do the third building like the u.s. did with building 7, it was a smoking gun..leearn from the u.s. and do it right if you are gonna do it....what a pansy false flag you pulled off, and you should be ashamed...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:24 | 6659093 Plata con Carne
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Erdogan to Obama:  "I learned it from watching you! Alright?! I learned it from watching you!"

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:26 | 6659105 Rock On Roger
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1915

 

"The Islamic Ottoman Government of Turkey is overthrown by Masonic Jewish socialists, who deceptively called themselves, the, “Young Turks.” The upshot of this is a Jewish led genocide of two million Christian Armenians, many of whom are tortured and have their hands cut off. Indeed, according to the British Consul, there were so many severed hands, that if they were laid side by side, a highway could have been made out of them.  

As a result of this revolution, the man who would become known as Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, an alcoholic Crypto-Jew, would rise to dictatorial power in Turkey."

 

The Synagogue of Satan

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:31 | 6659137 Oh regional Indian
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The Talmud is one crazy fucking document to live by...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:30 | 6659126 spanish inquisition
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Looks like the average Turk is smarter than an American

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:31 | 6659136 savagegoose
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i didnt want to say it, but Erdogan was my prime suspect.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 18:04 | 6660383 Lucky Leprachaun
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Always ask cui bono?  Works all the time.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:34 | 6659139 austrogirl
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Remember when Turkey was caught planning a false flag in Syria last year?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-27/here-youtube-false-flag-attack-...

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 13:51 | 6659251 847328_3527
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Used to be a great place to vist; now, too dangerous. Smart Turks who have a little dough will get out fast.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:26 | 6659361 coltek
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Get it clear in your heads folks - this is just another Red Shield Nation State destabilization attack, cunningly disguised as some sort of unfathomable skirmish between various factions.

 

Perhaps the puppet Erdogan has fallen foul of State Department thinking.

 

You are looking at the next Ukraine...in the long line of already chaotic states fucked up by the same psychopaths.

 

They need Syria and Turkey for the pipeline, and the controlled central banks, that they want so badly to keep the global ponzi scheme going - and stop Mr. Putin from pissing on their fire.

Mon, 10/12/2015 - 17:38 | 6660266 harrybrown
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the smell of zionism is all over this attack, indirect as always, but its stinks of their foul deeds & satanic methods of deception.
by deception thou shall do war....

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