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Tourism and terrorism: first Paris, then Istanbul

Tourism and terrorism: first Paris, then Istanbul
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People place flowers and Germany soccer clubs scarf for victims who were killed in a suicide attack near by Sultanahmet, home to the Hagia Sophia museum and the Blue Mosque, in Istanbul, Turkey, 13 January 2016. German Chancellor Angela Merkel described 12 January 2016's suicide attack in Istanbul in which 11 people died, eight of them Germans, as a 'murderous act.' The Turkish government blamed Islamic State for the suicide bombing in the tourist heart of Istanbul in which eight German citizens were among the dead and nine were injured.

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