As suicide bombings rock Ankara,it’s clear Turkey is being dragged down by multiple crises. Its friends in the west must interveneMurderous suicide bombings. A deadly upsurge of ethno-sectarian violence spilling over from Syria. A country whose friendship with the US and EU is increasingly fragile, and is now at daggers drawn with a historic enemy, or Russia.
With another 28 people killed in the 17 February attack on Turkish soldiers in Ankara,there seems no halt to Turkey’s misfortunes. Even scarier scenarios doing the rounds in the Turkish capital include talk of a 14th Russo-Turkish war, unprecedented polarisation of Turkish society and a continuation of the wave of Syrian refugees.
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Source: theguardian.com