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Alwaght- Over 86 people have been killed and almost 200 injured after twin bombs exploded near the main train station in the Turkish capital, Ankara on Saturday.
The attack, which targeted a peace rally, has been as the deadliest attack in the Turkish capital in recent memory.
The march involved, among others, the pro-Kurdish HDP, or People's Democratic Party.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in a televised address to the nation that the suicide bombers are believed to have caused the blasts.
The attack came before national elections scheduled for November 1.
So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack though suspicion immediately fell on the ISIS terrorist group, or on Kurdish separatists in Turkey.
Davutoglu said there were "strong signs" that the blasts were due to two bombers blowing themselves up, adding that Daesh Takfiris, the PKK militants and the outlawed leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) are potential suspects. While, declaring three days of national mourning, he added that an investigation is continuing into the attack.
Elsewhere, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has called on its members to halt militant activities in Turkey unless they are threatened by an attack.
On Saturday, the Firat news agency, which is close to the PKK, cited the group’s head as saying that the militants had been ordered to stop activities inside Turkey following calls from both in and out of the country.
The PKK reportedly said its militants would avoid acts that could prevent “fair and just election,” which is scheduled to be held on November 1. In the June polls Erdogan's party lost its overall majority after HDP's major gains.

The PKK announcement came just hours after the Ankara blasts
Meanwhile the leader of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish HDP party has blamed a "mafia state" in the country over the death of more than 85 people in twin blasts in the capital, Ankara that targeted pro-Kurdish members and activists.
"We are faced with a huge massacre. A vicious, barbaric attack has been committed," HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas said in Ankara on Saturday.
"We are faced with a murderous state which has turned into a mafia and a state mentality which acts like a serial killer," Demirtas said.
Demirtas said the attack was a repeat of the bombing of an HDP rally in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir ahead of June 7 elections and a July 20 bombing blamed on ISIS Takfiris in the town of Suruc that killed scores of pro-Kurdish activists. The bombing of the HDP rally in Diyarbakir killed four people while the bomb attack in Suruc left 32 pro-Kurdish activists dead and hundred others wounded.
Turkey's former president Abdullah Gül has criticized the country’s foreign policy warning that consequences of a bad policy would be dire.
In an interview last year, Gül criticized the Turkish president’s policies vis-à-vis the chaotic situation in neighboring Syria, saying, “I am sure that one day (God forbid) the chickens of Erdogan’s past follies in Syria will come home to roost.”
Turkey has also been one of the main supporters of the Takfiri terrorism against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with reports indicating that Ankara actively trains and arms terrorists operating in Syria.