86 People die,leaving 186 injured after explosion

Two powerful bombs exploded near the main train station in Ankara on Saturday morning, causing carnarge, killing
at least 86 people and injuring 186 others, in the deadliest attack in the Turkish capital in recent memory.

The explosion, which caused chaos and bloodshed, took place during a peace march involving, among others, the pro-Kurdish
HDP, or People's Democratic Party.
The attack also came before national elections scheduled for November 1.

Video showed bodies strewn on sidewalks, with injured people lying on the ground with bystanders trying desperately to help
them. The blasts were so powerful they shook high-rise office buildings at some distance. The death toll is expected to climb.

A newly aggressive stance toward ISIS
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, though suspicion immediately fell on the ISIS terrorist group, or on
Kurdish separatists in Turkey.
Turkey has avoided conflict with ISIS, perhaps in exchange for the release earlier this year of dozens of Turkish hostages
seized in the Iraqi city of Mosul. The quid pro quo of that deal has never been announced.

However, Turkey recently changed its stance and allowed the U.S. to launch strikes on ISIS from the Incirlik Air Base in
southern Turkey. But there was no initial word on who might have been
responsible. CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen said there was nothing about the attack that would point to one
group over another.

"I think that from what we know, it appears to have been a suicide bomber," Bergen said. "Both groups have deployed these
in the past. "I will say that when we've seen ISIS attacks, they have tended to be in the border region along the Turkish/Syrian
border.

This is of course in the capital, Ankara, in the middleof the country, so that's something to think about. And again,
go back to the context of this rally. It was at a rally to protest the war by the Turkish state and Kurdish separatist.