Ankara bombing victims: lives cut short

There is never a face or a name in a number and when news outlets publish, post or broadcast, as CNN did on Saturday (10/10/15) that: “Two powerful bombs have exploded at a peace rally near the main train station in Ankara killing at least 95 people and wounding 246 others.” We, the audience tend to see the carnage in a macrocosm, we don’t look beyond the numbers. But who were those murdered in Ankara? Why were they there? Social media has provided some answers. Take nine-year-old Veysel Atılgan, he was youngest to perish in the killings. He attended the peace rally with his dad Ibrahim. They died holding hands. En küçüğümüzdü Muhammed Veysel Atılgan..Yarın okulu vardı. Unutmayacağız! pic.twitter.com/Rp1KoY064G— M.Berat Saymadi (@beratsaymadi) 11 Octobre 2015 Eleven of the victims worked for the Turkish Railways. They had travelled together from Adana in the south for the rally. Adana'dan giden çoğu TCDD mensubu 11 kişi yaşamını yitirdi pic.twitter.com/1ocY2O5wgo— WaterLuDA (@WaterLuda) 11 Octobre 2015 @rayihale : Ankara’daki Patlamada Adana’dan Giden Çoğu TCDD Mensubu 11 Kişi Yaşamını Yitirdi http://t.co/QHDmJVZtRk— Ray İhale (@rayihale) 12 Octobre 2015 Adbullah Erol was running for parliament as a pro-Kurdish HDP candidate in the upcoming elections. He posted this on Facebook before the explosion saying “we have arrived at the meeting place.” (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));Posted by Abdullah Tayboğa on Saturday, 10 October 2015 Başak Sidar, a student in Ankara. Her parents arrived from Sanliurfa in southeast Turkey to join up with the march. They met at the station. Başak was killed, she was only 20. Her father,İzzettin Cevik is photographed as he tries desperately to comfort his wife. The picture has became a symbol of the destruction in Ankara. Reuters'tan @tumayberkin 'in fotosundaki İzzettin-Hatice Çevik çiftinin 20 yaşındaki kızları Başak Sidar da öldü pic.twitter.com/DtUVoj3aqR— gökmen karadağ (@haberaktif) 11 Octobre 2015