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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Turkey's tourism industry on the brink

Turkey's tourism industry on the brink as bookings tumble

24 March 2016 • 11:10am

Last weekend saw the fourth terrorist attack in three months, a bomb in Istanbul’s main pedestrianised shopping avenue, Istiklal Street, which killed five. This year has already seen two attacks in the city, as well as in Ankara. These outrages have been variously blamed on Islamic State operatives from neighbouring Syria and on Kurdish dissidents currently embroiled in a vicious conflict with government forces in the southeast, a region Britain’s Foreign Office now advises against for all but essential travel.

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