Hundreds of anti-government protesters took to the streets of Antakya, Turkey on Sunday, condemning government policy as the major cause of Saturday’s car bombings in Reyhanli, which killed 46.
The protesters included both nationalists and leftists, who accused the Erdogan government of meddling in Syria’s ongoing civil war, and inviting “jihadist murderers” into southern Turkey by overtly backing the rebels.
“Erdogan has made a big mistake. Syria was a neighbour with a fire – we should have taken water to put it out, not gas to make it flare up,” noted one of the protest leaders in a speech.
Though exactly who launched the attack is so far unclear, officials were quick to blame the Syrian government, despite all those arrested for the attack being Turkish citizens. The protests suggest that not everyone is buying this, and is seeing the spillover violence as blowback for the government’s hasty decision to take sides in the war.
The irony of Turkey, the UK, and France (all former colonial occupiers of Syria) leading the charge against Assad is much too much.
Moreover, a lot of Armenians settled in Syria after fleeing the Ottoman Empire's genocide. They will again have to flee if Erdogan's favorite jihadi rebels take over.
edorgan ia a supreme jackass playing into the hands of britain america israel.
This is funny when out of desperation the Turkish government blame the bombing on group of socialists among others…, yet this bombing have all the hallmark of al-Qaeda…, that tells me that Turkish government is not after Al-Qaeda nor other islamist terror groups.., but rather playing the blaming game on socialists rather then giving a solid proof of their accusation. That tells me that the Turkish government is affried of those terrorists that they themselves brought into turkey, trained and then sent to fight the syrian people…, now they are defeated in syria returning to turkey for revenge…, and therefore this bombing is blamed on socialists by the turkish government…, what would they gain by bombing innocent people..,??
Yeah Turkish gov't wants to blame Socialists and other non-Islamist group–of course because Erdogan's go'vt is maybe not exactly Wahhabi or MB but highly sympathetic–doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that one out.
Turkey is a mere pawn of the US, Incirlik US Air Base is close to Antakya, no doubt the Washington warmongers are behind this, planning a full blown attack on Syria through its proxy Turkey.
Go protesters. Any of them is more truthful than the liars in the Turkish government.