Who Masterminded the Diyarbakir Blast?

Özkan claims that the Diyarbakir blast was a piece of MİT's puzzle.

Two dead, more than 100 injured in blasts at HDP's Diyarbakır rally. Courtesy: national.bgnnews.com

(SALEM, Ore.) - Tuncay Özkan, Turkish journalist, writer and politician, and one of the leaders of The Republican People's Party (Turkish: Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi - CHP), revealed important information about the Diyarbakır bomb attack in a secret meeting with a representative of Halkların Demokratik Partisi (HDP) in Ankara.

According to Tuncay Özkan, Hakan Fidan, the head of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) after election monitoring and observing development of social capital of HDP, designed a secret plan to create unrest in the HDP election campaign.

Under the scheme, it was decided that ISIL terrorists attack and destroy sensitive and influential centers of HDP Party in some areas.

Özkan claimed that Saladin Demirtaş was supposed to be arrested after the election for financial crime with an expert team in MİT framing him, but when the HDP Party achieved victory it was removed from the agenda.

In addition, Özkan claims that the Diyarbakir blast was a piece of MİT's puzzle and it was Fidan's plan that was carried out by ISIL terrorists but due to HDP Party's good propaganda of it, MİT's secret plan failed.

It is worth noting that Tuncay Özkan had a wide range of relations with disgruntled MİT senior officers. He also has published a history book based on interviews with those officers.

He was arrested on 27 September 2008 by the ruling party and held in prison until August 2013. MİT has repeatedly threatened him.