Questions that will probably remain unanswered

We are seeing a repeat of the same old film. No one in a position of responsibility is stepping forward to shoulder any blame for what amounts to criminal negligence that allowed the perpetrators of Saturday?s massacre in Ankara to carry out their evil plan.  

The interior minister believes there is no cause for him to resign. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan supports him in this, saying this is not a case that requires the minister to resign. The police chief in Ankara and the heads of the relevant security divisions have been temporarily suspended pending an inquiry into the attack. This move is obviously aimed at reducing the pressure on the government.

Another sign of the government?s effort to deflect accusations of criminal negligence came from Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu?. He believes this massacre, which left 97 dead and hundreds injured, was engineered by a ?higher mind? and points to the involvement of a foreign state.

As usual, though, he did not mention any likely state or provide any information about what led him to say this. It is clear he has no evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, to justify his remarks. He is only exercising the age-old Turkish habit of seeking a foreign hand after all bad occurrences in this country. 

When the situation is reversed, though, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu gets incensed. We saw this clearly when Selahattin Demirta?, a co-leader of the pro-Kurdish People?s Democratic Party (HDP), accused the Turkish state of being behind this attack, even though he, too, had no evidence to corroborate this claim.

It would be taking matters to their extreme limit to claim that the Turkish state perpetrated this attack. But there are still questions that come to mind which implicate...