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| Turkish PM blames Ankara bombing on Islamic State | Turkish PM blames Ankara bombing on Islamic State |
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| The Islamic State (IS) group is the prime suspect in the Ankara bombings that killed nearly 100 on Saturday, Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu has said. | The Islamic State (IS) group is the prime suspect in the Ankara bombings that killed nearly 100 on Saturday, Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu has said. |
| No group has said it carried out the attack, but the government believes that two male suicide bombers caused the explosions. | No group has said it carried out the attack, but the government believes that two male suicide bombers caused the explosions. |
| The official death toll is 97, but one of the main groups at the march put the number of dead at 128. | |
| The funerals of more of the victims are taking place on Monday. | The funerals of more of the victims are taking place on Monday. |
| Saturday's explosions ripped through a crowd of activists gathering outside the main railway station in the Turkish capital. | Saturday's explosions ripped through a crowd of activists gathering outside the main railway station in the Turkish capital. |
| They were due to take part in a rally calling for an end to the violence between Turkish government forces and the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). | They were due to take part in a rally calling for an end to the violence between Turkish government forces and the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). |
| Speaking on Turkish television, Mr Davutoglu said the bombings were an attempt to influence the forthcoming elections, due to take place on 1 November after a vote in June left no party able to form a government. | Speaking on Turkish television, Mr Davutoglu said the bombings were an attempt to influence the forthcoming elections, due to take place on 1 November after a vote in June left no party able to form a government. |
| Many of the victims were activists of the pro-Kurdish HDP party, which says it is now considering cancelling all election rallies. | Many of the victims were activists of the pro-Kurdish HDP party, which says it is now considering cancelling all election rallies. |
| The HDP believes its delegation at the march was specifically targeted. | |
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| On Saturday the PKK unilaterally declared a ceasefire. However, this was rejected by the Turkish government, which carried out cross-border air strikes on PKK positions in southern Turkey and Iraq on Sunday. | |
| Mr Davutoglu said authorities were close to identifying one of the suicide bombers. | |
| Some local media have implicated the brother of a man who carried out an IS bombing in the southern border town of Suruc in July, which killed more than 30 people. | |
| The BBC's Mark Lowen in Ankara says that critics of the Turkish government believe it is using IS as a scapegoat - and that murky elements of a so-called "deep state" are to blame for the bombings, aiming to shore up his support ahead of the elections. | |
| The leader of the HDP, Selahattin Demirtas, said the state had attacked the people - and that the people of Turkey should be the recipients of international condolences, not President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. | |
| Thousands of people attended the funeral of victim Uygar Cosgun on Monday, some of them chanting anti-government slogans, said the BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen. | |
| One of the victims of Saturday's attacks has been identified as 70-year-old Meryem Bulut, a member of the Saturday Mothers group, who have protested about their missing sons since the 1990s. | |
| The victims | |
| Turkey is mourning the deaths of at least 97 people. These are just a few of those who lost their lives, clockwise from top left: |