TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) vowed to continue resistance at the weekend after police attacked a march commemorating those who died in the October 2015 Ankara bombing.

Security forces detained 11 people and blocked survivors and victims’ families from attending a vigil at the train station to mark the fifth anniversary of the country’s deadliest attack in the Turkish capital.

At least 103 people were killed as an Isis suicide bomber detonated an explosive as HDP supporters, trade unionists and campaigners gathered for a peace rally.

Questions have consistently been raised over how the attack was allowed to happen with European intelligence services pointing the finger of blame at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

A three-page report by the EU Intelligence Service leaked in 2018 concluded: “Given the circumstances (arriving buses with demonstrators not searched, police almost absent at the huge demonstration), there is reason to believe that in this case forces within the AKP commissioned the Da’esh [Isis] operatives.”

The allegations were further fuelled after comments made by former Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu in August 2019 in which he appeared to implicate senior figures from the AKP and the leader of its coalition partners the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in both the Ankara and Suruc bombings.

The HDP has consistently pressed for an independent inquiry into the Ankara bombing which has been denied by the Turkish government. It has also called for a commission to investigate Mr Davutoglu’s comments.

Speaking to the Mesopotamia Agency on Saturday Gokhan Yarali, who lost his leg in the blast, called for peace but said his wounds can’t heal because those responsible have not been brought to justice.

“They put the rhetoric of war against the rhetoric of peace,” he said. “If you call for peace you are labelled as a terrorist, a traitor, a separatist …”

Ilyas Kaya, who was also injured in the attack, said: “We came to Ankara to demand peace on October 10. We were slaughtered.”

But he insisted that despite what happened he would attend the rally again saying he is “ready to pay the price for peace.”

HDP women vowed to continue the resistance, saying they “will not forget the lives of those murdered by Isis in front of Ankara station.

“The struggle of those who have not lost their hope for peace in this country will not end. October 10 — do not forget.”