Weekly Tracker: January 18-24

TURKEY - Report 18 Jan 2015 by Murat Ucer and Atilla Yesilada

Executive Summary As ISIS and Yemeni al-Qaeda urge their followers to attack Europe, authorities in large EU countries remain on high alert, leading us to think that Charlie Hebdo-like incidents may occur more frequently. Ankara, too, remains deeply concerned about contagion from fundamentalist terror. Charlie Hebdo may go down in history books as a turning point in the relationship of Turkey with the West. Mr. Erdogan could have proven his mettle as a Moslem and a Global Leader, but he chose to take sides and debased his currency. His hectoring of the West for Islamophobia and discriminati...

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