Bombings Lead to Anger, Questions Over Turkey’s Syria Policy
Many Turks are wondering how their nation's Syrian policy can be a success when it has started costing innocent Turkish lives.
The twin car bombings in the Turkish town of Reyhanli near the Syrian border has put the Syria policy being pursued by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government under the most intense public scrutiny since the start of the Syrian crisis more than two years ago.
The pressure on the government was apparent in the defensive manner Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu immediately lambasted critics of his government following the bombings. “Let me put it frankly those who are trying to show Turkey as having pursued the wrong policy (on Syria) are committing a crime against humanity,” Davutoglu told reporters in Berlin.
