The assassination in Istanbul, Turkey, the result of helplessness – Virtual Poland

The assassination in Istanbul is a consequence of the ongoing political instability the country – we read in “Rzeczpospolita”.

The suicide attacks at the airport were killed on Monday evening, 41 people, 239 ended up with the wounds. This is the most bloody act of terror in Istanbul during ongoing since July last year, a wave of violence. According to the Turkish authorities are behind the jihadists of ISIS, which is a self-proclaimed Islamic State. Whoever they are the organizers of the attack, deliberately they chose one of the largest airports in the world, with the final collapse of the tourist traffic to Turkey. Airport them. Ataturk serves annually more than 50 million passengers and is the true gateway to Turkey for millions of tourists. Some of them have already bypassing Turkey for months, aware of the risk posed to stay in the country conducting a regular war on two fronts.

One of them takes place in the south-eastern part of the country, where for months last large-scale military action against the Kurdish militants of the organizations associated with the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The same – recognized in Turkey, the US and the EU as a terrorist organization – of which the authorities in Ankara agreed in 2013 to negotiate, hoping to end nearly four decades of ongoing armed conflict, which killed approx. 50 thousand. people. In July last year, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a process of reconciliation with the PKK.

The second war is being waged on the Syrian side of the border, where the Turkish aircraft bombarded positions of one of the Kurdish organizations accused of supporting separatist tendencies in Turkey and in cooperation with the PKK.

  Turkish army is also involved recently in the fight against ISIS in Syria. Jihadists in retaliation carry out terrorist attacks in Turkey. Just make radical Kurdish groups.

In July last year, 33 people were killed in an attack in Suruç in the south of the country. It was the beginning of the current wave of terror in almost the whole country. In October last year in Ankara, 102 people were killed by the explosion of a bomb in the vicinity of the railway station. In January this year in Istanbul ISIS terrorist blew himself up among German tourists. 12 people were killed. In March, on the famous street of Istanbul Istiklal Caddesi bomb killed four foreigners with Israeli passports. A few weeks ago in another bombing killed seven policemen.
 Another attack like the one at the airport, it was only a matter of time. No one is able to rule out that the next target of terrorists will seaside resorts.

Peter Jendroszczyk, Republic