ISIS Has Polarized Turkey Domestically
By Lauren Williams
Daily Star, Lebanon
Posted 2015-01-04 22:57 GMT
The war in Syria has not only tested Turkey's economic and institutional ability to absorb 1.1 million refugees, but has also deepened latent tensions between secularists, leftists, Kurds and Islamists. In particular, the increasingly visible presence of ISIS in Turkey has polarized the country, with opponents of the Erdogan government saying its support of the Syrian opposition has allowed ISIS to flourish, even generating homegrown support for militant Islam.
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