Istanbul airport explosions: 36 dead, 147 injured, Turkish officials says

[ExPatty 502]

28 killed at current count.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/europe/turkey-istanbul-airport-attacks/index.html

Helps show the problem with checkpoints; you simply attack as people are queued up at them.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Radical Christianity no doubt

[Rob L 3,811]

28 killed at current count.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/europe/turkey-istanbul-airport-attacks/index.html

Helps show the problem with checkpoints; you simply attack as people are queued up at them.

Where did you come up with this title? if anything it is farm more probable that the PKK which is a left wing Kurdish group is behind this. PKK is fighting the Turks and ISIS at the same time. The ignorance of folks in the states on the nuances of politics, religion and ethnic groups is staggering and inexcusable.

Edited June 28, 2016 by Rob L

[Jacque67 7,328]

Untasteful!()

[OriZ 3,157]

Radical Christianity no doubt

What are you talking about...this is nothing compared to all the people that die by guns daily. Actually, it's also nothing compared with those who die from stabbings, car accidents, or choking on their food. In other words: nothing to see here.

BTW...I wonder if buildings all over the world are going to have the colors of the Turkish flag now? nahhh

Where did you come up with this title? if anything it is farm more probable that the PKK which is a left wing Kurdish group is behind this. PKK is fighting the Turks and ISIS at the same time. The ignorance of folks in the states on the nuances of politics, religion and ethnic groups is staggering and inexcusable.

Except that there are already indications this one wasn't the PKK.

[Rob L 3,811]

What are you talking about...this is nothing compared to all the people that die by guns daily. Actually, it's also nothing compared with those who die from stabbings, car accidents, or choking on their food. In other words: nothing to see here.

BTW...I wonder if buildings all over the world are going to have the colors of the Turkish flag now? nahhh

Except that there are already indications this one wasn't the PKK.

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Turkey continues its descent into a state of regular Islamic terrorism"

This sounds like a factual claim

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

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Turkey continues its descent into a state of regular Islamic terrorism"

This sounds like a factual claim

And last year Turkey resumed hostilities with the PKK, Kurdish militant separatists, in earnest after a two-year cease fire broke down.

The PKK, or Kurdistan Worker's Party, has been in an armed struggle with the Turkish government for decades and is considered a terror group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

-- Ataturk Airport is "one of the most secure airports in the world," CNN senior law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes says. But the airport has been "very overwhelmed for several decades with terrorism from PKK."

Just saying, if you changed out PKK for ISIS there would be no question it was Islam. But you know folks want it to be Islam so badly.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Where did you come up with this title? if anything it is farm more probable that the PKK which is a left wing Kurdish group is behind this. PKK is fighting the Turks and ISIS at the same time. The ignorance of folks in the states on the nuances of politics, religion and ethnic groups is staggering and inexcusable.

Left wing or Muslim. I am cool either way

What are you talking about...this is nothing compared to all the people that die by guns daily. Actually, it's also nothing compared with those who die from stabbings, car accidents, or choking on their food. In other words: nothing to see here.

BTW...I wonder if buildings all over the world are going to have the colors of the Turkish flag now? nahhh

Except that there are already indications this one wasn't the PKK.

It is probably Trump's fault or Bush

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

I did a Google on the PKK. The are militant liberal Socialist and Muslims.

We may have a VJ meltdown.

??

[OriZ 3,157]

I did a Google on the PKK. The are militant liberal Socialist and Muslims.

We may have a VJ meltdown.

??

Well yes of course they are Muslim. So are most Turkish innocent victims. That particular conflict has not much at all to do with religion and I think that's the point they are making. Not trying to help them, but...Turkey is just a sammich right now. On the one side their non religion related(mostly territory/autonomy) conflict with the PKK. On the other side Isis etc. Not fun.

[Rob L 3,811]

I did a Google on the PKK. The are militant liberal Socialist and Muslims.

We may have a VJ meltdown.

??

Well yes of course they are Muslim. So are most Turkish innocent victims. That particular conflict has not much at all to do with religion and I think that's the point they are making. Not trying to help them, but...Turkey is just a sammich right now. On the one side their non religion related(mostly territory/autonomy) conflict with the PKK. On the other side Isis etc. Not fun.

Keep up the research boys, the PKK has Marxist foundations and embraces atheism. If you have seen statements linking Islam to PKK they are likely not accurate.

[OriZ 3,157]

Keep up the research boys, the PKK has Marxist foundations and embraces atheism. If you have seen statements linking Islam to PKK they are likely not accurate.

Dude, I ain't doin no research nor do I need to. I've heard all about the PKK since my days in Israel. Israel knows both the Kurds and the Turks very well and has relations with both(not with the PKK but with some of the kurds in Iraq and in Turkey). I was saying it exactly like it is: Most Kurds' religion is Islam, but the conflict with the Turks has nothing to do with Islam as both parties are mostly muslim. Whether or not many or most of the PKK members are marxist or believe in atheism has absolutely nothing to do with my reply to the naitch.

[ExPatty 502]

Where did you come up with this title? if anything it is farm more probable that the PKK which is a left wing Kurdish group is behind this. PKK is fighting the Turks and ISIS at the same time. The ignorance of folks in the states on the nuances of politics, religion and ethnic groups is staggering and inexcusable.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/explosions-rock-istanbul-airport-multiple-injuries-reported-n600561

U.S. officials, meanwhile, said the apparent use of suicide bombers had all the hallmarks of ISIS...Experts say ISIS is likely behind the blasts...A senior U.S. counterterrorism official told NBC News the Istanbul attack "fits the ISIS profile, not PKK."

What was that you were saying about the "ignorance of folks"? Now, isn't this embarrassing.

[Jacque67 7,328]

John Kerry yet to confirm who is behind this?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/28/explosions-and-gunfire-at-istanbul-ataturk-airport-injuries-repo/

[Ryan H 3,812]

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