I'm still baffled what on earth Kılıçdaroğlu thought he was going to achieve by making that request - if he isn't utterly clueless he must've known he would be creating far bigger trouble for his own party than for the government, so is he really that gutsy that he was willing to pay that price?

And yes, you could certainly call the apology opportunistic. Erdoğan was offered the easiest of chances to simultaneously look statesman-like and trash his political opponents - but you can't blame him for taking it, especially not when the apology is undeniably a step in the right direction.

As for him ignoring people's involvement... well. Today's CHP is still the same CHP that had a monopoly of power for decades and was responsible for this and other crimes - and takes no small amount of pride in being that same party. Inönü is their hero, second only to Atatürk himself. Perhaps the political right at the time - to the extent any political movement was allowed to exist outside the CHP - was not blameless either (I know very little about the whole revolt), but any connection between those people and Erdoğan or his party is far more tenuous and debatable. The earliest party in the Turkish Republic that you can really associate with today's AKP is the Democratic Party of Adnan Menderes, which was founded in 1945 and came to power in 1950 (governing until the military deposed and hanged Menderes, so if the AKP gets nervous about the possibility of military coups, you know why). And even then they don't associate themselves with Menderes or admire him remotely as much as the CHP does with its heroes.

And yes, let's hope the apologies for that other massacre come eventually, as well. If Kılıçdaroğlu wants to try and nail his party's coffin shut, he can try asking for that next time.