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Turkey risks relapse into ’90s violence – POLITICO

Turkey risks relapse into ’90s violence

The country is vulnerable to intercommunal tension and attacks from abroad.

By Aykan Erdemir

8/17/15, 5:30 AM CET

A specter is haunting Turkey. Suicide bombers, assassins and an alphabet soup of terrorist organizations seem to have brought back the carnage of the 1990s. The rapid escalation of violence of the last three weeks may be puzzling for Turkey’s younger generations. For those of us who lived through the 1990s, however, it is eerily familiar.

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