Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Turkey is looking more and more like its troubled neighbors | Reuters

Turkey is looking more and more like its troubled neighbors
By Samia Nakhoul

It should have been a moment of unity against a backdrop of horror.

At a qualifying match this month for next year’s Euro 2016 soccer championship in the central Anatolian city of Konya, the teams of Turkey and Iceland stood, heads bowed, for a minute of silence commemorating the 102 victims of suicide bombings in Ankara three days earlier.

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