Turkey after the Ankara attack

14 October 2015 | In the Media

Following the attack that killed up to 100 people in a pacifist demonstration in the Turkish capital, Ankara, Senén Florensa, executive president of the IEMed, has analyzed in various media the context in which it was produced and the consequences it may have for the country, which on November 1 holds early legislative elections.

The attack, carried out on Saturday, October 10, by two suicide bombers during a peaceful pro-Kurdish demonstration, has not been claimed. Florensa has pointed out that the logic of regional conflict suggests that Islamic State is behind the attack as further polarizing the historic conflict between the Erdogan government and the PKK, an armed faction of the Kurds and great enemies of ISIS in Syria and Iraq suits them.

According to the Executive President of the IEMed, this attack in a candidate country for the European Union is nothing more than “the extension of all the conflict in the area.”