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Erdogan became even more emotional when he referred to the November terrorist attacks on Istanbul, stressing that Islam does not promote violence...
...train's original 1920s and '30s carriages are decorated with marquetry panels, finely cast solid brass and Art Deco paintings. The traditional London-to-Venice trip takes 31 hours and costs $2,400 one way. But the train's trophy trip, which mirrors its virgin journey from Paris to Istanbul, takes place only once a year?and costs $4,000 more...
...Caliphate State group, which seeks to replace Turkey's secular government with an Islamic one, has been linked to terrorist plots there. Five people were arrested on weapons, drug and illegal-immigration charges. Meanwhile, Syria has handed over 22 suspects sought by Turkey in connection with the November Istanbul blasts. And French police rounded up four people accused of assisting an al-Qaeda operative last year as he passed through France on his way to London. Are police methodically rolling up terrorist networks--or frantically trying to stave off a suspected holiday attack...
...bombings in Istanbul, the latest in a wave of terrorist attacks across the Muslim world [Dec. 1], created the sense that there is some strange new kind of world war. The U.S. and its allies are not only fighting "over there" but are now subject to attacks on their own streets. There is no justification for acts like those in Istanbul. There is most definitely a need, however, for us as a global community to address the grossly unequal distribution of wealth and power in the world that has generated murderous rage against rich nations. The roots of terrorism...
...Turkey reels from last month's suicide bombings in Istanbul--which killed 61 and seemed to open a new front in the war on terrorism--Turkish police are homing in on several obscure Islamic militant groups, notably Turkish Hizballah, a senior police official tells TIME. Security analysts say Hizballah, not to be confused with the radical Lebanese organization that shares its name, is a loose association of some 20,000 extremists based in Bingol, an impoverished province bordering Iraq. Turkish officials say three of the four suicide bombers, and many of their accomplices, called Bingol home...