A Day After Blasts Rock Turkey Parade, Mourning And Mounting Protests
October 11, 2015
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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
To international news now. Thousands of people gathered in Turkey’s capital today. They were mourning the victims of a bombing yesterday that Turkish officials said was the deadliest in the country’s modern history. Close to a hundred people were killed and many more were wounded in two separate blasts near Ankara’s main train station that went off as activists were gathering for a peace rally. Today, those gathered said they came to honor the victims but also to protest what some saw as the central government’s complicity in the attack. We wanted to understand just what the protesters were talking about so we called Soner Cagaptay. He is the director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Welcome, thanks so much for joining us.
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