Old Demons in New Faces? The 'Deep State' Meets Erdoğan's 'New Turkey'
Posted: 10/25/2015 8:49 pm EDT Updated: 2 hours ago
One suicide bombing after another, Turkey's public is growing accustomed to images of carnage that no longer originate from Syria or Iraq, but from their own capital. The twin blasts that killed at least 102 people at a peace rally in Ankara on 10 October follow a string of deadly explosions in Suruç in July and Diyarbakır in June, and claim the unenviable title of being Turkey's deadliest terror attack from the Reyhanlı bombings of May 2013.
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