A Most Unsettling Year for Turkey
The country continues to descend into uncertainty following the assassination of the Russian ambassador.
by Diego Cupolo
Dec 20, 2016
3 minutes
ANKARA—For weeks, the main shopping areas of Turkey’s capital city have been eerily vacant. On October 29, the U.S. government advised family members of embassy staff to the country, while other nations sent out warnings, recommending their citizens avoid streets with high foot traffic throughout the month of December, in response to intelligence indicating a likely attack by the Islamic State. With two bombings and one assassination over the , everyone expected an attack of some sort in Ankara. But few would have predicted the
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