Oct 14 2015
Making Sense of Turkey’s Terrorist Attack
Turkey experienced what is now being seen as the deadliest internal attack in the nation’s modern history last week. At least 95 people were killed and hundreds injured in two suicide bombings at a peace rally in Ankara on Saturday morning. The rally was being held just weeks before a snap election.
The violence is being linked to the on-going decades-long tensions between Kurdish forces and the Turkish government. Complicating matters is the violence by the Islamic State at Turkey’s borders, and the on-going refugee crisis from the Syrian conflict.
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