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Bombs in Ankara and warships in the Med
September 20, 2011 8:06 pm by Gideon Rachman

The bomb that went off in Ankara today killed three people and looks like the work of the PKK, the Kurdish group that has been fighting Turkey for decades. It probably makes a Turkish army incursion into northern Iraq, pursuing the PKK, all but inevitable. I was in Ankara yesterday. It was the first day back for all the public schools and universities, so the traffic was terrible. A bomb this week was likely to cause maximum mayhem.

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