Op-Ed via RT.com,
It was expected ISIS would turn against the Ankara regime at some point, and Turks are now paying the price for creating and training a monster like this, political analyst Roula Talj told RT. The worst has started between Turks and IS, she concluded.
On Friday, the EU and Turkey came to an agreement on a set of proposals to stem the flow of Mid-East asylum seekers into Western Europe.
The focus of the discussions in Brussels was cutting off the sea route to Greece. On the front lines is the Greek island Lesbos where at least half of the 144,000 refugees who have entered Greece in 2016 have landed. More than a million people crossed the Aegean to Greece last year.
On Saturday, a suicide bomber detonated on Istiklal Street in Istanbul’s most popular shopping district killing 4 and wounding dozens in the fourth attack on Turkey’s largest urban centers since the beginning of the year.
The blast came less than a week after a female TAK supporter carried out an attack on a transit hub in Ankara’s Kizilay neighborhood where 37 people lost their lives and more than 100 sustained injuries.
For the fourth time this year and the second time in seven days, one of Turkey’s major cities has been hit with a deadly suicide bombing.
Just six days after an explosion ripped through a transit hub in Ankara’s Kizilay neighborhood killing 34 people and wounding more than 100, a bustling shopping street in Istanbul was shaken by a powerful blast on Saturday.
Three academics in Turkey has been thrown in jail after they signed a peace petition in January 2016 criticising Erdogan’s regime. The academics were charged with “making terrorist propaganda” and jailed on March 15, 2016 amid an ongoing criminal investigation. Hrw.org reports: At least 30 other academics have been dismissed and 27 suspended by their universities pending investigation. The Istanbul prosecutor responsible for terrorism crimes is conducting a criminal investigation into all the academics who signed the petition and many local investigations are taking place.