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The first two days of the past week saw
two momentous developments on the diplomatic front take place on the Turkish scene. But Tuesday night then witnessed
a heinous terror attack that left the country reeling. The ruling Justice and Development Party (or AKP), led by Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım (aka Hapless) and staunchly supported by the nominally neutral President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (aka the Prez), appeared in shock following
a triple suicide attack on the Atatürk Airport in Istanbul . . .
but could it be that these seemingly random and unrelated events are somehow interlinked and interconnected?Last Monday and Tuesday (27-28 June 2016) have constituted a most momentous 48 hours for Turkey. At the very outset of the week, things looked up with the Turkish media (read, the state propaganda apparatus) reporting that
Israel had finally decided to make reparations and reinstate cordial relations with Turkey, relations that have been shaky ever since then-PM Erdoğan's "One Minute" performance at Davos (30 January 2009) and the subsequent deadly Mavi Marmara incident (31 May 2010).
Later on during the same day then news emerged that
Turkey had, in turn, made overtures towards Russia, in an attempt to patch up things between Ankara and Moscow, between Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin. Following these two major developments on the political scene, pundits and the public alike were busy regurgitating the facts when Tuesday night, towards 10 PM,
terrorist struck at Istanbul's main communication artery, the Atatürk Airport in Yeşilköy, the nation's biggest and Europe's third largest, in operation since 1924, serving more than 60 million passengers last year.
Comment: Psychopathic maneuvers, assuredly. Questionable sincerity, definitely. Connection of events, likely.
See also: Double trouble: Israeli rapprochement deal and the tragedy of Turkish treachery