Despite the broadcast ban imposed on all kinds of news, interpretation, publication, interview, and criticisms in all media organs regarding Ankara massacre, details as to the investigation are surfacing.
We've compiled news by Fevzi Koyun from Hürriyet daily, İsmail Saymaz from Radikal daily, İsmail Saymaz from Cumhuriyet daily, Alican Uludağ, and Fırat Kozok.
Intelligence as to attack had come
Here are the notes from article titled "Last 3 Days of Omission" by Fevzi Kızılkoyun from Hürriyet:
One of the suicide bombers, Yunus Emre Alagöz has been identified by both images and DNA test, and Ömer Deniz Dündar has been identified by images. Yunus Emre Alagöz was being searched for 4 months.
It was determined that Alagöz and Dündar went to Gölbaşı district of Ankara from Antep by car. The suicide bombers taking a taxi went to a cafe in Balgat where they waited for the rally.
Alagöz and Dündar went to terminal square by taxi, waited at separate points for the participants to gather and executed the bombing.
Three days before the Ankara bombing, the information that there might be a suicide bombing or bomb attack on the rally by a group of 16 people was shared.
Vehicle owner who brought the attackers in Antep, driver of the vehicle and three people who were allegedly guiding were seized. Two people thought to be related to those people in addition to thee people linked with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in total eight suspects were detained.
Attacker's older sister notified Prime Ministry and Presidency
Here are the notes from the article titled "She notified human bomb to both Prime Ministry and Presidency" by İsmail Saymaz from Radikal:
It has come to light that Ömer Deniz Dündar's older sister Fatma Dündar had notified and brought a complaint to both Prime Ministry Communication Center (BİMER) two years ago.
Fatma Dündar in her application and complaint no. 789498 to BİMER said, "Many youngsters are being taken to Syria in Adıyaman. My two brothers have been missing for 15 days. As we filed a missing persons report we learned that there are around 100 families having the same issue and no one can find a solution for this problem."
Dündar wrote these in her complaint to Presidency on September 24, 2013: My 20-year-old twin brother were taken to Syria with the idea of jihad. (...) Neither security forces nor prosecution has stepped in. We wrote this to BİMER but no one has replied yet. The families are devastated."
Al Qaeda case file of two bombers was closed
Here are notes from Saymaz's article titled "Ankara and Suruç Human Bombs were Investigated and Their Case Files Closed":
Leader of ISIS cell called "Dokumacılar," Mustafa Dokumacı, and his two friends fighting in Syria like him were sued over the charges of "Membership of Al Qaeda armed group in Adıyaman last year.
However, within the scope of the same investigation, non-prosecution was decided for 19 people including Suruç bomber Şeyh Abdurrahman Alagöz and Ankara bomber Ömer Deniz Dündar and his twin Mahmut Gazi Dündar.
Claim that plan was made in Kilis
Here are notes from article titled "Massacre Plan was Made in Kilis" by Fırat Kozok from Cumhuriyet newspaper:
According to allegations, a group of ISIS members went to border village in Elbeyli district of Kilis one day before the explosion.
After the initial meeting, the militants again crossing into Syria brought along two people who would become the suicide bombers. Those two were delivered to Ankara group. Suicide bombers were brought to Ankara by midnight.
There was arrest warrant on two bombers
Here are the notes from article titled "Suicide Bombers were Officially being Looked For" by Alican Uludağ from Cumhuriyet:
It has surfaced that arrest warrant was issued by Adıyaman Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on human bombs who carried out Ankara massacre which left 99 people dead.
It is learned that within the scope of ISIS investigation in Adıyaman, arrest warrant was issued on Suruç massacre executer Şeyh Abdurrahman Alagöz's brother Yunus Emre Alagöz on July 23 and on Ömer Deniz Dündar on July 26.
So, two attackers freely came to Ankara while they were being "officially" looked for. If a search was carried out at city entrance, then two suspects would have been seized. (EKN/TK)
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