The Ankara Bombing Reveals Scary Political Rifts in Turkey
Karl Vick @karl_vick
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While the Turkish government has pointed the finger at ISIS over the Anakara attack, others wonder about the role of Turkey's "deep state"
Protest against the Ankara bombings
Whoever was responsible for the bombs that killed 128 people in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Saturday, the benefit of the resulting turmoil clearly accrues to the country’s embattled president. In late August, Recep Tayyip Erdogan called national elections for Nov. 1 to recover his role as Turkey’s “indispensible man”—and in the process appears to have unleashed the forces that kept Turkish politics snarled in the fear and suspicions that he called on everyday Turks to rise above when he first burst on the national stage more than a decade ago, as a celebrated political reformer.
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