The bodies of 102 victims of Saturdaya's deadly blasts in Ankara have been handed to their families after the completion of post-mortem examinations in tears and amid protests against the AKP ruling and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over their war and massacre policies.

The remaining 26 bodies will be handed over to families following a DNA test to verify the identities.

The post-mortem examinations for 102 the victims of the Ankara massacre have been completed at Ankara Forensic Medicine Institute yesterday evening, while the identity verification could not be accomplished yet for 26 other bodies without a DNA test. Hundreds of people kept waiting in front of the Forensic Institute for over 24 hours since the delivery of the bodies from hospitals starting from Saturday evening. As each vehicle left the Institute with the bodies of peace martyrs, the crowd continued waiting outside, chanting the slogan “Martyrs are immortal”.

Throughout yesterday, bodies of 102 victims were delivered to families, who were waiting at the Institute to take their beloved ones to their hometowns. The bodies of 26 people on the other hand have yet to be identified through a DNA test due to the strong effect of the blasts.

Many volunteers from Ankara also flocked to the Forensic Institute to show their solidarity with the families of the victims. Volunteers did not only work to meet the basic need of families, but also shared the pains of the families and one another.

In the meantime the families of the wounded also kept waiting in the gardens of the hospitals in Ankara the whole night despite a heavy rain in the city. A physician from Ankara Numune Hospital told that tents were set up in the garden of the hospital for the families for overnight stay while at the same time raincoats were delivered.

The bodies of those delivered from Forensic Institute have been sent to their hometowns, where they were welcomed by masses and laid to rest following funerals that witnessed anger and protests against the AKP government and mainly the Turkish President Erdoğan.

ISTANBUL

11 victims of Ankara massacre; Tekin Aslan, Tayfun Benol, Güney Doğan, Cemal Avşar, Vahdettin Özkan, Selim Örs, Ahmet Katurman, Azize Onat, Fatma Esen, Dicle Deli and Binali Korkmaz, are being laid to rest in Istanbul today.

One of the founding figures of Construction Workers’ Trade Union (Inşaat-İş), Tekin Aslan has been laid to rest in Aydınlıkköy cemetery following a ceremony in Kartal Cemevi (Alevi place of worship). HDP co-chair Selahhattin Demirtaş has also attended the ceremony.

Another member of İnşaat-İş, Tayfun Benol, has been laid to rest in Başıbüyük cemetery following a religious ceremony in Karacaahmet Mosque today noon.

Student of Istanbul Technical University, Güney Doğan, has been laid to rest in Sarıgazi earlier today.

Vahdettin Özkan, HDP Üsküdar branch members Cemal Avşar, Selim Örs, Ahmet Katurman and Azize Onat were laid to rest after a ceremony at Ümraniye Yavuz Selim Mosque at 12:30. HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has attended the ceremony.

Fatma Esen was also laid to rest following a ceremony outside the Association of Eruh Citizens in Fatih district.

University student Dicle Deli was laid to rest in Silivrikapı Cemetery, and Binali Korkmaz in Garip Dede Cemetery in Küçükçekmece at 12:00.

BATMAN

Aycan Kaya, İbrahim Atılgan and his 9-year-old son Veysel Atılgan were laid to rest in Batman following a mass ceremony attended by thousands. The crowd carried a banner which read “You will be choked in the blood you shed” as they marched after welcoming the victims. While HDP İstanbul/Üsküdar branch co-chair Aycan Kaya was laid to rest in the city cemetery, Transportation Workers Trade Union member İbrahim Atılgan and his son were laid to rest in Gercüş district, where rage erupted for 9 year-old boy against the AKP government and the President Erdoğan for the savage murders and pro-war policies.

ADIYAMAN

Peace martyr Bilgen Parlak was laid to rest in Kahta district of Adıyaman, where anger against the ruling party AKP and the Turkish President Erdoğan dominated the ceremony through the slogans chanted against Erdoğan and the AKP. The banner opened in the ceremony was expressing the anger: “We condemn those shedding blood on peace”.

MARAŞ/PAZARCIK

Another victim of Ankara massacre, Ali Deniz Uzatmaz, was laid to rest in Pazarcık district of Maraş in tears and anger expressed in slogans against the AKP ruling and President Erdoğan.

MERSİN

Following a ceremony in Cemevi in Mersin, from which hundreds had gone to participate in Saturday's Peace Rally in Ankara, Gazi Günay was sent to Dersim where a funeral ceremony will be held today.

Other victims of Ankara massacre from Mersin will also be laid to rest today. Newly-married couple Yılmaz Elmascan and Gülhan Karlı Elmascan went to death together along with their friends from the United Trade Union of Transportation Workers. Şebnem Yurtman, a member of the Labor Party; Hacı Mehmet Şah from the HDP; and Metin Peşmen, a member of the Pir Sultan Abdal Foundation, were among victims from Mersin.

TEKİRDAĞ/ÇORLU

The chair of Çanakkale branch of Labour Party, Ercan Adsız, was laid to rest in Çorlu district of Tekirdağ yesterday following a mass ceremony that witnessed anger against the AKP ruling and its war policies.

ADANA

Dilan Sarıkaya, a young woman member of the Labour Party in Adana, was laid to rest in Asri Cemetry in the city following a large ceremony that witnessed the same anger against the AKP.

MANİSA

Emin Aydemir and Resul Yanar were laid to rest in Manisa. The daughter of Resul Yanar, Aslı Yanar, said in the funeral “The murderers took my father away from me. I know the murderers. Those murderers, who did not send any police to Ankara, filled our village with police and soldiers today. If you had taken this measure in Ankara, my father would not have died”.