The Turkish government wants internal terrorism, so it implements it. In all the other countries, it is the same story...

How Turkish police could have prevented IS massacre in Ankara

KADRI GURSEL for Al-Monitor Recent reports in the Turkish press have fueled claims that police were more than just negligent in their failure to act on intelligence reports before the Islamic State attacked Ankara on Oct. 10.

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