Monday, January 09, 2017

Does New Year's nightclub attack signal tough year ahead for Turkey?

Does New Year's nightclub attack signal tough year ahead for Turkey?

As 2016 was ending, millions of Turks were hoping that the struggles against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Islamic State (IS) and armed leftist organizations would be over and 2017 would be less violent. But an attack by an IS militant in the first two hours of the new year at Reina, a popular, highbrow nightclub on the Bosporus, ruined those hopes.

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