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Why the Carnage in Ankara Has Left Turkey Even More Divided

Riot police secure the site of twin explosions near the main train station in Turkey's capital Ankara, on Oct. 10, 2015. — Riot police secure the site of twin explosions near the main train station in Turkey's capital Ankara, on Oct. 10, 2015.
Photographer: Adem Alian/Getty Images

By

Isobel Finkel and

October 12, 2015, 6:17 AM UTCUpdated onOctober 12, 2015, 4:50 PM UTC

Suspected suicide bombers killed at least 97 people in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, in an attack on Saturday at a rally calling for a peaceful solution to the fight with Kurdish rebels.

The worst such attack in the country’s recent history comes amid a divisive election campaign and a deepening entanglement in the civil war in neighboring Syria. Here are some of the questions it has raised: