Turkey Is Turning Into the Next Pakistan

Source:Bloomberg Date:02Mar2018

In some ways, this article understates the threat. The growing presence of   ISIS in Turkey and the slow but visible radicalization of the Islamic movement, alogn with 3.5 million Syrian refugees,   which AKP failed to assimilate would drive the analogy hoem better.

 

Turkey is beginning to resemble Pakistan, a perpetually failing state whose military leadership has tolerated and advanced a vision of political Islam deeply hostile to U.S. and Western interests.