Posted on 02/17/2016 10:46:03 AM PST by Trumpinator
Explosion strikes Turkey's capital; casualties reported
By Jason Hanna and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN
Updated 1:16 PM ET, Wed February 17, 2016 turkey ankara explosion damon phoner_00010401
(CNN)An explosion rocked the Turkish capital of Ankara on Wednesday evening, killing five people and injuring 10 others, Turkey's semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported, citing Ankara Gov. Mehmet Kiliclar.
The explosion happened as a convoy of military vehicles was passing by, Turkish state broadcaster TRT reported.
Video aired on CNN Turk showed large flames reaching toward the night sky from an area on the ground. Lights from numerous emergency vehicles flashed nearby. Who is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan?
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Definitive information about the cause of the blast wasn't immediately available. But Kiliclar said it "may have been caused by a car bomb," according to Anadolu.
Soner Cagaptay, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank, said that if it was a bomb attack, suspects could include ISIS or the PKK, the Kurdish militant separatists that Turkey considers a terrorist group.
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The Kurds are allied with both the USA and Russia. It is a dangerous WW3 pending situation.
The headline recalls anti-gun people speaking of guns shooting people.
Erdogan’s “Reichstag Fire.”
False flag. This will be Erdogan's reason for bombing the Kurds. The Turks wouldn't blame their allies, ISIS.
Turkey should be thrown out of NATO and sanctions put on them for their war crimes against the Kurds.
They are now always going into Greek airspace.
and then
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/17/ankara-explosion-turkey-injures-large-number-of-people-reports-say
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Security sources told Reuters that âinitial signs [indicated] that militants from Turkeyâs outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were behind the Ankara bombing on Wednesday that killed at least 18 peopleâ. This has not been confirmed.
How did the Turkish authorities know so fast it was the Kurds? Erdoganâs âReichstag Fire" indeed.
I support the Greeks over the Turks. And Hitler was inspired in part to do the Holocaust by the way the Turkish genocide against the Armenians was ignored. And then there is the way they treat the Kurds. If karma exists, the Turks are screwed.
I want to see Russian tanks liberate “Constantinople.”
I have met many Turks , worked for them and met many Greeks and I trust the Greeks anytime over Turkey. Not one Turk I have met in my life have I ever trusted and they have no respect for women or Western ideas.
Sounds like a set-up!....................
Islam makes Turks bad people. It makes anyone a bad person. Arab Christians are awesome people - Danny Thomas - Muslim Arabs? Not so good people.
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The Kurds want their own country. UNFORTUNATELY that would mean Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey GIVING the Kurds some of THEIR land.
AIN'T never gonna happen.
The Kurds will continue to INSIST on their own country. It's a no-win for them but they don't care. They want what they want and to heck with the FOUR nations that WON'T give the Kurds land.
You KNOW that even if one of those countries gave the Kurds some land, it would NEVER be enough or GOOD enough and the Kurds would take up their fighting yet again. They WOULD want MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE. It would never end.
How many Muslim Arabs do you know? As neighbors, friends, co-workers, shop owners, whatever?
Sounds like a set-up!....................If Turkish tanks roll into Syria we will know for sure it’s a false flag attack.
Russians using spec ops?
Probably your man Putin did it. He’s blown up apartments in Russia under a false flag to install that weird puppet of his in Chechnya.
I wouldn't be surprised.
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