How the ‘Normalization’ of Salafi Extremism Has Come Back to Haunt Turkey
07/05/2016 08:17 pm ET | Updated 9 hours ago
Yusuf Muftuoglu Former Advisor to Abdullah Gül, the 11th president of Turkey
ISTANBUL — The escalating terror acts by the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Turkey are exceedingly dangerous because the ISIS presence in the country is organic — a direct consequence of larger developments in the Middle East in which Turkey has purposely become an active party.
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