HDP Co-Chair: ISIL Couldn't Carry out Terrorist Attacks without Support from ''Elements within the State''

13:57     13 October, 2015

On October 12 Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtas told Fred Pleitgen on CNN International that the Turkish government is complicit in the Ankara blast as it didn't pay much attention on ISIL and  failed to put appropriate security in place, Hurriyet reports.   

 "They [the AKP government] turned a blind eye to ISIL growing in Syria and their existence; [their] presence is known within Turkey and they haven’t carried out arrests," Demirtas said.

 He also mentioned the fact that ''it would not be possible for ISIL to carry out such terrorist attacks without support from "elements within the state."