A bomb attack targeting an outdoor wedding party in south-eastern Turkey killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 70 others on the night of August 20th.

Turkey has been rocked by a wave of attacks throughout the last week with hree ‘terror’ attacks taking place within only 24 hours throughout the districts Van, Elazıg and Bitlis claiming the lives of 12 persons including a child and two women. Among the 287 injured are soldiers, police officers and civilians. (Agencies)

Comment:

While the attacks in Van, Elazığ and Bitlis are attributed to the PKK, the attack in Gaziantep according to President Erdogan is more likely to have been perpetrated by ISIS. Throughout this year, the people of Turkey have witnessed continual attacks, either claimed by the PKK, or allegedly conducted by ISIS (who never took on any of the attacks officially), like the one in the Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, the blast in Ankara in March (37 died), and the attack in Istanbul’s main airport, killing 44 people. The attacks in south-eastern Turkey come as the country is still struggling with the aftermath of the coup attack of July 15, which is blamed on the Gulen Movement.

Although the Ummah in Turkey is well aware who the real perpetrators are behind all of these attacks, the leading sphere in Turkey still seeks to diminish these attacks to a few corrupt puppets, the subcontractors of the true powers who order this slaughter on these soils. Furthermore, they seek to silence the people’s voices. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu even insisted, “As politicians, we never said that the US or somebody else is behind the coup attempt, we never take these kinds of rumours seriously…” This stance is not only valid for the coup attempt, but has been proven legitimate for the government’s entire approaches towards ‘terror’ in this country – this for more than 30 years.

No matter what the Turkish politicians dare to say, they are only puppets of their foreign masters – today the US-led AKP government, just like the British-led previous governments. The true enemies of the people living on these soils, regardless of their flags, are the non-Muslim Islam-hostile Western powers. The most severe attack ever faced on Muslims in the region of Turkey and the whole Muslim Ummah was the removal of the Khilafah, through the colonialist powers in 1924. Since that time coups, ‘terror’ and chaos have become the only staple reality upon the Muslim Ummah. As long as the Turkish Government does not change its priorities – its obedience to its colonialist masters and protecting and maintaining their political aims – the attacks and power of the enemies of Islam will continue to increase and will continue to take lives. Therefore, in order to bring an end to this chaos and to these subsequent attacks it is absolutely essential to re-establish the Second Khilafah Rashidah (Caliphate) upon the Method of Prophethood.

Zehra Malik