Cyprus from space. Wikicommons/ Nasa image. Public domain. Some rights reserved.We cannot think about Cyprus without recognising the role that Turkey plays, the 1 November rerun general elections, and without remembering all those hurt and killed in the bombing of the peace rally outside the main station in Ankara on Saturday. Apparently the bombs were aimed at the HDP and the Kurdish block in the demonstration. It was a day before a ceasefire was expected to strengthen the democratic forces in Turkey. People trying to help were attacked by police as if they and not the bombers themselves were the enemy. But see here.
The HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtas accused the AKP government of direct complicity in the bomb attack. Speaking of the events in Ankara he said:
“Here are the corpses of the victims still lying on the streets, while the injured are transported to the hospitals. And in the middle of this situation the police are shooting at the crowds of people with gas grenades, and the ambulances are not able to leave the place. In the middle of Ankara a massacre is taking place, but they are not allowing the ambulances to move, and there is only police there. It appears they want many more people to die. Now the President will soon appear and call on us all to be restrained, while at the same time police forces who are under his command attack the injured at the scene with gas grenades. We are dealing here with a Mafioso, murderous and mass murderous state mentality.”
