2015 Ankara bombings 2015 Ankara bombings On 10 October 2015 at 10:04 local time (EEST) in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, two bombs were detonated outside Ankara Central railway station. With a death toll of 109 civilians, the attack surpassed the 2013 Reyhanlı bombings as the deadliest terror attack in modern Turkish history. Another 500 people were injured. Censorship monitoring group Turkey Blocks identified nationwide slowing of social media services in the aftermath of the blasts, described by rights group Human Rights Watch as an "extrajudicial" measure to restrict independent media coverage of the incident. The bombs appeared to target a "Labour,
Çankaya, Ankara (district) changed in the 1920s when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk came to stay in one of the garden houses. Atatürk selected Ankara as capital of the new republic and in the 1920s and 30s the city quickly grew, especially in the direction of Çankaya. In 1934 the writer Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu described the area as ""a wooden bridge, a dirt road, and when you come round the hill you see a hillside, green in gentle contours. That's Çankaya"." Çankaya eventually developed into one of the largest central districts of Ankara in later years. The climate in Çankaya is cold and temperate. The