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Six major problems ahead of Turkey in 2016
O lucky country, that has only six problems to face!
[Hurriyet] 2015 has been a problematic year for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 both in domestic and international politics. Two general elections, the changing mood of the Kurdish problem and the spillover of Syrian war in the form of jihadi terrorism were major problems inside Turkey. The Syrian war with the worsening situation with the downing of the Russian plane, the changing nature of the fight in cooperation with the U.S. against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and the possibility of reactivating relations with the European Union
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-03
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=440687