Ronan Dockery: Underneath the violence something good is taking root in Turkey
Mon, Oct 19, 2015, 02:23
When something as vile and as terrible as the Ankara bombings befall a country, the immediate instinct of the media and the population at large is to perform a very basic whodunnit and why. And in many countries the answers come quick and they come with a satisfying certainty. But in Turkey the opposite is true. For most neutral observers the who did this is obvious, as is the why, but when the Prime Minister immediately comes out and lists the potential perpetrators as pretty much anybody who has planted a bomb in Turkey in the last twenty years, then the hope that, in the first place the satisfaction of truth will ever be felt, and in the second, that the actual perpetrators will ever be fully brought to justice, is washed away in the tragi-comic slanging match that is pre-election Turkey.
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