Ankara: Police blocked ambulances/ general strike to take place amid anger and grief

[ellenrr]

Ankara: Police blocked ambulances.
Other links: Call for a 2-day general strike
Rally to commemorate
Police tear gas commemoration

Protesters intent on commemorating their murdered friends attempted to enter the site of the 10 October Ankara Massacre but were met by police barricades on Sunday morning. Despite two attacks featuring tear gas, plastic bullets and truncheons, Ankara residents succeeded in overcoming the barricades and entering the scene of the massacre
http://sendika4.org/…/gas-truncheons-and-barricades-fail-t…/
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Turkey – Thousands gathered in the Turkish capital of Ankara Sunday, the day after twin explosions targeted a massive peace rally, taking the lives of at least 128 people and injuring more than 500.
http://revolution-news.com/peace-rally-explosion-victims-c…/
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Unions and professional organizations that organized the 10 October Labor, Peace and Democracy Rally in Ankara have called for a general strike on Monday and Tuesday to protest a state-instigated massacre against more than 100 people early Saturday.
“To honor our dead friends and to protest the fascist massacre, we are in mourning for three days and on strike on 12 and 13 October,” said the organizing committee, which includes the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DİSK), the Confederation of Public Sector Unions (KESK), the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers And Architects (TMMOB) and the Turkish Medical Association (TTB).
http://sendika4.org/…/turkey-set-for-general-strike-school…/
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Soon after the bombing, within the chaos, cries and screams for help, various civilians in the area and press workers started using the social media announcing that there are tens of dead people in the area and no ambulances were arriving. Doğan Tılıç, a participant of the rally explained the moments of the attack on his article on BirGün newspaper: “I was 20 meters away from the area where the bomb went off. The police forces entered the area by throwing gas capsules. I have not seen any ambulances when the police was arriving. Here [Turkey] the distance between life and death is only 20 meters.”
Member of Turkish Medicine Association, Hande Arpat gave a statement to Agos newspaper: “Because the police attacked with gas capsules right after the explosion, we could not perform immediate medical intervention on those who were wounded.” HDP (People’s Democratic Party) Istanbul deputy Filiz Kerestecioğlu also gave a statement to Agos newspaper: “I arrived 30 minutes after the explosion; immediately we started carrying the wounded people. They [police] made an intervention on the first ambulances that were trying to exit. The explosion happened on HDP cortege. This [bombing] means that you cannot walk here for peace.”
http://sendika4.org/…/who-would-bomb-a-rally-organized-for…/
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[DetlefK]

1. A bombing exactly like this already happened earlier this year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Suru%C3%A7_bombing

ISIS attacked a demonstration in Suruc witha suicide-bombing. Just prior the turkish governor had declared that there is no terrorist threat in the area.

Right after the explosions, the area was suddenly swarmed with police who prevented people from leaving and fired tear-gas at the bombing-survivors. They also prevented ambulances from helping people.

After the attack, Turkey pretended to be angry at ISIS and stepped up the bombing and arrest of PKK-members, instead of targeting ISIS.