Opposition furious at PM's warning about return to era of unsolved murders

Opposition party leaders have furiously responded to Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu?s claims that a government without the Justice and Development Party (AKP) would lead to a period similar to the 1990s, an era of unsolved murders and disappearances mostly in the predominantly Kurdish-populated eastern and southeastern Anatolia.

?For God?s sake, what happened after June 7 and terror restarted?? Davuto?lu said on Oct. 20, referring to the June 7 elections and the rising conflict between security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK). The unrest escalated following a July 20 suicide bomb attack that killed 34 people in ?anl?urfa?s border town of Suruç and was blamed on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

?Was Van under the rule of bloody terrorist organizations from every fraction during the 1970s better? [?] Were these lands, which suffered from inhumane and militarist practices of the Sept. 12 junta, better earlier?? Davuto?lu asked, speaking at a rally in the eastern province of Van.

?Well, were the 1990s better? Were the days of the ?White Toros? better? [?] Which one was better than June 8?? he asked.

White models of the Renault 12-based ?Toros,? manufactured in Turkey between the 1970s and 1990s, are infamous for being used by J?TEM, an alleged clandestine intelligence unit within the gendarmerie whose existence has never been confirmed by the military and was accused of countless unsolved cases of murders and disappearances.

?Axes of evil, beware of our determination. They know terror axes will become strengthened and the resolution process will end when AK Parti [the Justice and Development Party] weakens; terrorist gangs or ?White Toroses? will come around like in the past. We will no...