Bloodbath in Istanbul: Terrorists kill at least 13 in machine gun and twin bomb attack on Turkish ri

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Bloodbath in Istanbul: Terrorists kill at least 13 in machine gun and twin bomb attack on Turkish riot police outside major Istanbul football match

Twin blasts rocked Istanbul this evening, with a car bomb detonating at a football stadium as a suicide attacker struck at a nearby park, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens more.

'Two bombings may have taken place according to our understanding: one outside the stadium... the other at Macka Park,' Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.

'The explosion at Macka Park is believed to have been carried out by a suicide bomber,' he added.

The Turkish government imposed a media ban in the wake of the blasts, citing 'national security' concerns.


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[DetlefK]

2. That's what they get for supporting ISIS.

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3. What an offensive post

[DetlefK]

4. Is it factually incorrect? Or merely an inconvenient truth?

1. Turkey did nothing to stop the ISIS-recruiters operating in Turkey and shipping recruits into Syria and Iraq. It was turkish students who tried to stand up to them and ISIS simply told them "stop that or you get a bloodbath". And the turkish police did nothing. The turkish government knew that the impoverished areas are a breeding-ground for islamic extremists. And they did nothing.

2. Erdogan let ISIS run amok in the region because he saw them as a tool to get rid of Assad without much effort.

3. I have never understood how Turkey never managed to stop ISIS from smuggling truck-loads of crude oil into Turkey. How about asking for documentation???

4. Turkish humanitarian volunteers were killed by ISIS in a bomb-attack in a syrian town just across the border. (IIRC Suruc) And Turkey did NOTHING. No investigations, no arrests. Nothing.

The one occasion that caused Turkey to start caring about ISIS was their bomb-attack in Istanbul in fall 2015, right before the redo of the national elections (they had to be redone because Erdogan wanted an overwhelming win instead of a narrow win), just in time for Erdogan so he can play strongman.

And what is Turkey doing, now that it has FINALLY joined the "war against ISIS"? They are fighting the guys fighting ISIS.

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5. Jesus. Did all of the 9/11 victims deserve to die because the U.S. has been

supporting Saudi Arabia for decades?

[DetlefK]

6. Was the US harboring and intentionally ignoring Al-Qaeda-recruiters on US soil prior to 9/11?