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Kurdish rebels claim deadly Ankara blast as strain on Turkey grows
[CNN] Millions of refugees from Syria have flooded into ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , straining its economy and draining resources. Turkey has been drawn into its neighbor's 5-year-long war, spawning discord with Russia. Its leaders have pushed to join the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... while fending off criticism of cracking down on opponents and journalists. On top of all this, Turkey is battling a terrorist insurgency. In the latest violence, a Kurdish rebel group on Thursday grabbed credit for a car kaboom that killed at least 37 people earlier this week in the capital. The Kurdish Freedom Falcons, or TAK -- an offshoot of the Kurdish separatist group PKK -- said on its website that Death Eaters struck Sunday "in the heart of (the) fascist Turkish republic." Posted by: Fred 2016-03-18 |
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