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Significant Digits For The Istanbul Attacks

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You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news.

Turkey Did Nothing About the Jihadists in Its Midst – Until It Was Too Late

foreignpolicy.com – Paul McLeary – May 29, 2014, 5:16 PM

The Islamic State has waged a yearlong military campaign in Turkey that includes suicide bombings, unguided rockets fired from Syria into Turkish border towns, and the assassination of Syrian journalists living there. The June 28 attack on

Letter from Istanbul: ‘People are angry’

Aljazeera.com

Istanbul – It was one of those texts you get just before switching off the bedside lamp. I was expecting it to be a loving goodnight message from my .

Photos Believed to Be of 3 Istanbul Attackers Emerge

ABC News

Images have emerged that are believed to be of the three men who are suspected of launching an attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, killing 44 people

Debate: Attack on Istanbul airport

 euro|topics

Three suicide bombers killed more than 40 people at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport on Tuesday evening. The Turkish authorities blame the IS for the attack. What goals are the jihadists pursuing with their terrorist attacks in Turkey?

Istanbul airport attackers ‘Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz’

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

The three men who carried out Tuesday’s deadly attack on an Istanbul airport were all from former Soviet states, Turkish media and officials say.

Landmarks across the globe turn red for Istanbul

Mashable! by Tim Chester

Across the world, from Australia to Amsterdam, landmarks were bathed in Turkey’s national colors of red and white on Wednesday as cities stood in solidarity with Istanbul.

Turkey says it has identified the Istanbul airport bombers

VICE News

Three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers who killed 42 people in a gun and bomb attack at Istanbulairport this week were from Russi

Turkey’s in a Terrible Spot

Slate Articles by Steven A. Cook

Istanbul’s Atatürk International Airport was once a gloriously modern, efficient airport for a country with big ambitions. Over the last decade, it reached well beyond its capacity and became a frustrating slog for anyone accustomed to the hurry-up-and-wait aspect of international travel.

Carnage in Istanbul and the point of no return

open Democracy News Analysis – by Karabekir Akkoyunlu

Once the external anchor of Turkey’s democracy, the EU‘s normative influence has sunk as low as its reputation among its many erstwhile supporters, who now feel betrayed and abandoned.

Turkey Airport blasts. Family members of victims outside the Forensic Medical Center in Istanbul, June 29, 2016. Emrah Gurel /Press Association.

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