Turkey: Payback Time?
By Burak Bekdil September 2, 2015 , 7:00 am
It came as no surprise that the Islamic State recently threatened to “conquer Istanbul.”
The AKP, preparing for snap elections on Nov. 1 — only five months after parliamentary elections were held on June 7 — must now fight two asymmetrical wars against radical Islamists and Kurdish separatists at the same time and in three theaters of war: Iraq, Syria and Turkey. It is also calculating the damage the renewed wave of violence could inflict on its popularity in the elections.
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