An investigation into a double suicide bombing in Ankara, Turkey has begun after the attack devastated members of a peace protest. On Saturday 95 people were killed and about 246 injured in the country’s capital in what is the worst terrorist outrage in the country’s modern history.

The first bomb can be seen in the beginning of the video and is followed by a collage of shots from the effects of the bombs – which went off at the beginning of the protest. The protest was backed by the pro-Kurdish HDP political party and leftist secular groups and was calling for the government to make peace with the Kurdish guerrilla group, the PKK. One member of the protest, Goksel Ilgin, explained what happened.

Although those responsible for the attack are yet to come forward, everyone is looking to the local recruits of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). Many Kurds believe that the Islamist AKP government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has encouraged Isil as part of his own political ambitions for Syria.

Before and after the bombings, protesters were shouting ‘Murderer Erdogan’. A protest that was held to promote peace, soon turned into a massacre. Fallen protestor’s bodies were covered with the distinctive yellow flag of the HDP.

This is a telling sign of the effects that Turkey’s decisions regarding the war in Syria are having within its own country.

[source: telegraph]