On May 22, a bomb explosion at 6.41pm at Anafartlar Shopping Centre in the district Ulus, Ankara killed 6 people and more than 100 were injured.
After the bombing the state's forces appeared rapidly at the place where the bombing had taken place and showed the PKK and Kurdish patriots as responsible.
Chief of general staff Yasar Buyukanit stated: "We can expect this (bombing attacks) every day in every big city. I don't say it is definitely going to happen, but they might realize that in big cities. We have to think carefully about the forces responsible for the bombing". These words carried the message that provocative counter guerilla actions in big cities could be intensified before the early elections. Buyukanit said also: "We have to look for the organizations which are behind these terrorist organizations. Who is developing them, that's what we have to figure out, I can't say anything else. I leave the comments to you." With this statement, Buyukanit put the DTP (Party for a Democratic Society), which has been facing arrest and detention terror and a ban on newspapers for a long time, and the Kurdish national patriotic organizations as well as the Kurdish press as responsible for the attack.
The bombing happened on the same day as Edip Baser, "coordinator for the anti-terror struggle" was removed by the head of division. His dismissal showed that there are disputes between Abdullah Gul and Baser concerning the cross-border operations in South Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan).
The police forces claim that the bomb of type A4 used at that attack are also used by the PKK:
Bombs of type A4 were used for the counter guerilla actions, too. On 12 September 2006, the counter guerrilla bombing, which exploded at Kosuyolu Park in Diyarbakir and killed 10 people, 7 out of them were children, included the same type of bombs.
Whilst this bomb attack has been an opportunity for the general staff, which wants to realize a cross-boarder operation in South Kurdistan, chauvinist provocations, lynching hysteria and trends as well as arrest and detention terror are used to hinder the DTP and progressive revolutionary forces who are preparing themselves to take part in the elections as independent candidates so that they might break the nationwide 10% threshold.