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Explaining the Istanbul bombing: Turkey's six foreign policy sins

  • Written by Sibel Oktay, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Global Studies, University of Illinois at Springfield

You don’t have to be an avid follower of international news to have heard about the terror attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport – Turkey’s biggest and Europe’s third largest hub for air travel. Most likely carried out by ISIS, the attack killed 42 people and wounded hundreds of others on June 28.

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