Attack on Ankara Police Station Leads to New Questions for AKP
An attack on police headquarters further deepens mutual suspicions between anti and pro-AKP Turks.
On Friday evening, Sept. 20, national police headquarters and its guest house in the heart of Ankara were attacked by rockets. It was after business hours and no casualties were reported.
As soon as the news of rocket explosions broke, Emre Uslu, a prominent journalist from Taraf daily, tweeted, “This rocket attack to the police headquarters must be the work of leftist organizations, such as DHKP-C (Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front). They have attacked the police headquarters in the 1990s also.” DHKP-C, with its new name, was formed as a leftist, Marxist-Leninist political party in the 1970s. The party is considered to have been the culprit in several assassinations; hence DHKP-C is classified as a terror organization in Turkey, the US and EU. DHKP-C recently made international news with the suicide bombing of the US Embassy in Ankara on Feb. 1, 2013.
