ISTANBUL (A.W.)””Armenian member of Turkey’s Parliament Garo Paylan of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) said the target in the recent bombing in the town of Suruc, located near the Syria-Turkey border, was the solidarity movement linking Turkey’s west””as many of those targeted in the attack hailed from Istanbul””and Kobane.
Speaking to Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos following the HDP’s Istanbul Provincial Organization’s meeting, Paylan said that it is inconceivable that the authorities were unaware of the attack in which more than 30 people were killed and around 100 were injured.
“The State refuses to take a clear stance regarding ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria]. As long as the perpetrators and their connections are not revealed, further attacks will be encouraged. It is inconceivable that Turkey’s comprehensive intelligence network was unaware of this attack,”
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