Turkey suspends Ankara police, intelligence, security chiefs after bombing

  14 October 2015    Read: 885
Turkey suspends Ankara police, intelligence, security chiefs after bombing
Turkey`s interior ministry said it had removed the police, intelligence and security chiefs of Ankara from their posts in an effort to conduct an effective investigation into Saturday`s bombings that killed 97 people.
Riot police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators, during a protest against Saturday`s bomb blasts in Ankara, in the Kurdish dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, October 12, 2015.

Turkey`s interior ministry said it had removed the police, intelligence and security chiefs of Ankara from their posts in an effort to conduct an effective investigation into Saturday`s bombings that killed 97 people.

The ministry, in a statement on its website late on Tuesday, did not say if the officials would to return to their posts after the investigation.

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