Sunday, January 08, 2017

Opening Borders to Extremists Comes Back to Haunt Turkey

Opening Borders to Extremists Comes Back to Haunt Turkey

For Turkey, the difference between 2016 and 2017 might be very little, says Vijay Prashad

Following the Reina nightclub shooting in Istanbul, Turkey, Turkish officials are saying they have killed at least 18 ISIS militants in Syria. ISIS did claim responsibility for the attack, but the actual identity of the attacker and his affiliations are still unknown. Chief of the Turkish General Staff said to its state news agency Anadolu, that they attacked a hundred jihadist targets in Syria immediately after the nightclub attack.

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