Turkey: ISIS's Hostage Again
by Burak Bekdil
August 4, 2015 at 4:00 am
Erdogan is hostage to the jihadists of his own making.
In March 2014, Turkey's main opposition social democratic party submitted a parliamentary motion to investigate alleged failings of safety standards at a coalmine in Soma, in western Turkey. The ruling Islamist party's parliamentary majority voted to reject it. Less than two months later the same coalmine exploded, killing more than 300 miners.
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