Turkey sacks top cops after Ankara attacks

October 14, 2015 18:39

The Turkish interior ministry today fired Ankara's top police chief and two other officials as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan admitted security shortcomings may have led to a double suicide bombing in the capital that

killed 97 people.

There has been growing anger against Erdogan and the government for alleged security lapses over the worst attack in modern Turkey's history in which two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of peace activists on Saturday.

Announcing the first dismissals in the wake of the disaster, the interior ministry said Ankara police chief Kadri Kartal as well the head of the city's police intelligence and security departments had been sacked.

It said they had been removed on the suggestion of investigators "to allow for a healthy investigation" into the atrocity.

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