Only a small group of close relatives of the bombings' victims in addition to representatives from the Turkish parliament and other political groups and NGO's were allowed to gather around the area in the capital where last October bombings took place, despite Ankara police previously banning any meetings and protests in the city.
"Of course our citizens would like to commemorate the pain. In order to provide that, we allowed symbolic commemorations to be performed with small groups of relatives of the martyrs and those who would like to remember. Apart from that, no program will be permitted," Ercan Topaca, the Ankara governor, said, as cited by the Hurriyet daily.
On October 10, 2015, twin bombs exploded near a railway station in the Turkish capital of Ankara ahead of a peaceful anti-war march to protest against the increasing violence in the Turkey-Kurdish conflict. The suicide bombers killed 103 people and injured some 500 others.
The investigation found that the bombings were organized by the Daesh jihadist organization, which is banned in Russia and many other countries, with the aim of disrupting the 2015 parliamentary election.
