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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has reiterated Turkey?s belief that the 10 October Ankara Massacre was committed by a medley of mutually antagonistic entities, including extreme jihadists and Kurdish militants.

The original target of the two suicide bombers who attacked a peace rally in Ankara on Oct. 10 was the headquarters of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkey?s main opposition leader has openly and directly accused the caretaker of the interim government of providing ?protection? for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), thus paving the way for the Oct. 10 Ankara double suicide bombing which killed at least 102 people.

Diyarbak?r Association head Tahir Elçi, who was detained in the southeastern province late on Oct. 19 for recent remarks that ?the PKK is not a terror organization,? was released on probation on Oct. 20 but has been barred from traveling out of the country.

The death toll in the twin suicide bombing in Ankara on Oct. 10 increased to 102, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor?s Office announced on Oct. 16, adding that 13 people allegedly linked to the attack were in custody.

All but one of the victims have been identified, and the suspects are being interrogated, according to a written statementby the prosecutors.

The Ankara Public Prosecutor?s Office has launched an investigation into two private broadcasters recently removed from Turkey?s leading broadband provider.

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Mui?nieks has expressed concern about recent negative developments affecting the right to freedom of expression in Turkey, citing the recent ban on reporting about the investigation into the Oct. 10 suicide bombing in Ankara. 

Seventeen suspects, including 15 foreign nationals, who purportedly planned to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria, have been arrested in the southeastern province of Gaziantep.

Some 200 migrants of Syrian origin, who had been attempting to reach the European Union, have been saved from within a truck that was abandoned by its driver in a parking lot in Turkey?s Aegean province of ?zmir. 

One soldier was killed and four security forces wounded Oct. 12 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) attack targeting an operation team in the southeastern province of ??rnak.