As Ankara bombings suspicions point to ISIL

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu revealed on Oct. 12 that the government was considering the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as the ?first suspect? of the Ankara twin bombings on Oct. 10 which claimed at least 97 lives so far according to official figures with reports of a rising toll.

In a live interview with Turkey?s private NTV, Davuto?lu also said that the identity of one of the two suicide bombers was about to become clear and that could point out an ?organizational link,? without elaborating which organization.

?dris Emen from Hürriyet?s website reported on Oct. 12 that, according to security sources, one of the suicide bombers could be Yunus Emre Alagöz. He is the brother of ?eyh Abdurrahman Alagöz, who was the suicide bomber of the Suruç attack on July 20 this year in which 34 people were killed. The government held ISIL responsible for the Suruç attack, and responded by air force and artillery attacks on ISIL targets in Syria after July 23 when a Turkish soldier was killed by fire from ISIL positions in Syria. It triggered Turkey?s opening up of its strategic ?ncirlik air base for the U.S.-led coalition against ISIL.

The Alagöz brothers were considered to have been recruited by ISIL as they frequented the ?Islam Tea House? in Turkey?s southern town of Ad?yaman. At some stage the teahouse was understood as working as a major ISIL recruitment center before being closed by local authorities for lacking license documents.

Another person who had frequented the same tea house was Orhan Gönder, the one who was arrested by the police for committing the bomb attack on June 5 this year as a crowd gathered for a rally of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) in the southeast town of Diyarbak?r, killing...