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‘Once I saw the dead bodies I thought there is no God’
On the fourth anniversary of the October 10 massacre at a peace rally in Ankara, those who miraculously stayed alive and the relatives of the dead speak to the Morning Star

IT HAS been four years since the explosion that took the lives of 102 people who were attending a peace rally in Ankara. 

The terror attack, named as the worst in Turkey’s history, left behind hundreds of wounded too. 

Victims of the massacre still await justice. Gokhan Yarali, who lost his leg in the massacre, is one of those alive by chance. 

Gunay Karakus lost two friends and a leg in the explosion
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