Another car bomb killed 34 in Turkey (wounding 125)

[The Midnight]

Is this the new norm?


Isn't Turkey supposed to be an Islamic friendly country?


https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/13/world/ankara-park-blast/index.html

 

[Gameface]

OL, did you know that not all Muslims get along with each other?

 

[Stoked]

Or of the Kurdish tension in Turkey

Or the terrorist groups in Syria that have members in Turkey.

Or the Russian/Turkish tension played out thru subordinate groups.

 

[Siro]

Can you be this oblivious OL?! Islamist groups MOSTLY operate in Muslim countries. It's been "the norm" since this latest violent Islamist movement began.

 

[The Midnight]

OL, did you know that not all Muslims get along with each other?

Or of the Kurdish tension in Turkey

Or the terrorist groups in Syria that have members in Turkey.

Or the Russian/Turkish tension played out thru subordinate groups.

Can you be this oblivious OL?! Islamist groups MOSTLY operate in Muslim countries. It's been "the norm" since this latest violent Islamist movement began.

Great info thanks... admittedly I'm not really up to date with my Islamic/terrorist info.

 

[jjscap]

This bombing has nothing to do with Islam or Islamists. Also Turkey is not a Muslim country technically.

 

[addictionary]

Yes. Turkish Republic is a laicist state that religion is pushed away from the laws, governance, institutions etc. But it had strides throughout Turkey's short republic history. Because there always were religious leaders and cults that had the power and effect over simple peoples in mostly rural areas. They are strong as **** right now. That is why AKP and Fethullah Gülen has so many damn support. Ignorance and ethocentrism destroyed the chemistry of this society.

* * *

Terrorist groups that supposedly kill in the name of Islam do that in Islamic countries, coz it's cheaper and you get to be the enforcer of states like USA and Israel and gain a force out of nuthin' .

 

[Miggs]

This sucks. I hope all our Turkish posters are safe and sound.

 

[addictionary]

This sucks. I hope all our Turkish posters are safe and sound.

Thanks P. I can't tell because a lot of'em are not here anymore. I hope they are too. I know that jjscap, Hekate, Diamond and One Love are alright.

 

[JimLes]

Leave it to Turkey to somehow currently be at war with people trying to set up the Caliphate and the only people seriously trying to prevent the setting up of said Caliphate.

 

[Surely]

My little brother taught briefly at a university in Turkey. While he was there my parents went to visit. Some of the local professors (all Muslim) took them all out to eat and they had a great time. My dad told one of them that he had changed my dad's opinion of Muslims. To which the professor said that my dad had changed his opinion about Americans. Lol. I think for the most part people all over the world are the same and want the same things. Unfortunately there are a few that don't want to ride along.

 

[jimmy eat jazz]

So where is the outpouring of sympathy and grief from the West that we saw after Paris?

Oh, that's right, Turks don't look like us. They don't belong to our tribe. They're one of the 'others.'