Word: turkish
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...twin bombings took the lives of at least 32 people, almost all Turkish citizens, and wounded more than 450. That was shock enough for the country, but the attacks came on the heels of similarly synchronized blasts just five days earlier at Istanbul's two main synagogues, assaults that had killed 25 and injured more than 300, also mostly Turks. Said Semih Idiz, a veteran columnist for the Aksam newspaper: "It's our 9/11...
...Muslim nation to recognize Israel, and cultivates extensive ties with the Jewish state. Long a faithful U.S. ally and member of NATO, Turkey aspires to join the European Union. Although its populace bitterly opposed the war in Iraq and its Parliament refused to let the U.S. deploy soldiers from Turkish soil, the government has been mending ties with the U.S., even offering to send peacekeepers to Baghdad (which the Iraqi Governing Council refused to accept...
...Turkey tries to recover from the bombings in Istanbul, investigators 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 Lebanese organization that shares its name, is a loose association of some 20,000 Islamic extremists based in Bingol, an impoverished province on the Iraq border. Officials say three of the four bombers who carried out the suicide attacks - and many of their accomplices - called the province home. If Turkish authorities are right, Hizballah may be the latest group to have joined...
...possible that even those among the citizenry broadly sympathetic to al-Qaeda's critique of U.S. policy will be alienated by the bloodletting of innocents on their own streets, and turn against the extremists. Those who "massacred innocent people will account for it in both worlds," said Turkish prime minister Recip Erdogan in response to the bombings. "They will be damned until eternity." Erdogan's own ruling party has its roots in Turkey's moderate Islamist movement. But the reaction to jihadi suicide attacks in Iraq raises a cautionary flag: Even when most of the victims are innocent Iraqis, many...
...targeting Turkey, the radicals may also be seeking to provoke a crisis that slows its ascension into the European Union. Those provoking the government in Ankara will know, all too well, the ferocity the Turkish authorities are prepared to bring to bear to stamp out terrorism on their soil - some 35,000 people died in Turkey's bitter war against Kurdish separatists that ended about four years ago. That war on terror saw human rights abuses that were cited by the European Union as reasons to delay Turkey's membership, and the al-Qaeda aligned insurgents may want to provoke...