Turkey's CHP seeks parliamentary inquiry into Oct 10 Ankara massacre

Recent media reports that revealed that Turkish intelligence units were tipped off about imminent suicide bomb attacks targeting rallies 25 days before Oct. 10, 2015, blasts in Ankara have prompted Turkey's main opposition to demand a parliamentary inquiry to determine whether intelligence and security officials were guilty of "negligence" prior to the attack.

Last week, dailies Cumhuriyet and Evrensel both reported that a preliminary survey report investigating the Oct. 10 blasts determined that an intelligence officer failed to convey key information to his superiors due to "negligence or other motivations," thus inhibiting further security measures.

After jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) bombed a peace rally near the Ankara Railway Station on Oct. 10, 2015, authorities delivered "unserious statements such as cocktail terror," a group of deputies from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), said in their motion for an inquiry presented to the Parliament Speaker's Office on April 19. At the time, both President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu suggested that a "cocktail" of armed groups - including ISIL, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and others - was behind the peace rally attack.

"It is seen that the case is not a 'cocktail' and so forth, but was ISIL terror with its name and surname," said the CHP group, led by Ankara deputy Murat Emir.

"According to reports in recent days, in the preliminary survey report drafted by four inspectors tasked by Interior Minister Efkan Ala, serious negligence by the security and intelligence units concerning the attack were noted," they said, listing various questions regarding the course of events before the attack, which they...