inside the city , interspersed with civilians – including children and the elderly – describing the sheer terror of living under such relentless attacks in a city under siege . “ They want to kill me , ” a bespectacled young girl with curly hair says when asked about the bombs . In another harrowing scene , an injured young boy lies alongside the corpse of his brother who was killed in a barrel bomb attack , weeping and begging : “ My brother , please do n’t leave me . ”
Hakan Fidan , head of Turkey ’s National Intelligence Organisation ( MIT ) But according to Ahmet Yayla , Fidan was a prime suspect in a series of terrorism attacks in the 1990s — when Yayla worked as a police officer in Ankara . The attacks involved targeted assassinations of leftwing Turkish intellectuals affiliated with the newspaper Cumhuriyet , in the form of car bombings and explodingdisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionparcels . The victims included journalist Ugur Mumtu , women ’s rights activist Bahriye Ucok , and intellectual Ahmet Taner Kislali . Police operations traced the perpetrators of the attacks to a terrorist cell run by the Turkish Hizbollah ( TH ) .
PHOTOS : Russian Meteor Strike Aftermath The event itself is notable because it is the largest atmospheric impact recorded since the famous Chelyabinsk bolide that exploded over Russia in 2013 , causing widespread structural damage and injuries to the city with a population of 1 million . This recent Feb. 6 event unleashed an energy equivalent of 13,000 tons of TNT explodingdisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosioninstantaneously ( a.k.a . a " 13 kiloton " explosion ) ; the Chelyabinsk impact ripped through the Ural Mountain skies with a whopping energy of 440 kilotons . Initially noticed by NASA 's Ron Baalke and then investigated by Bad Astronomer Phil Plait , it quickly became clear that the high - altitude impact was likely caused by a chunk of space rock approximately 5 - 7 meters ( 16 - 23 ft ) wide .