{"id":180792,"date":"2017-01-02T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/01\/02\/this-is-a-direct-consequence-of-turkeys-support-of-daesh\/"},"modified":"2017-01-02T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T01:10:00","slug":"this-is-a-direct-consequence-of-turkeys-support-of-daesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/01\/02\/this-is-a-direct-consequence-of-turkeys-support-of-daesh\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Direct Consequence of Turkey&#8217;s Support of Daesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 30 people were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-38486591\">killed in a terrorist attack of an Istanbul night club<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The manhunt continues for a gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub as Turkey marked the start of the new year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The unknown assailant opened fire at Reina nightclub early on Sunday, before managing to flee amid the chaos.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The motive for the attack is not clear, but suspicion has fallen on the Islamic State group, already linked to at least two terror attacks in Turkey last year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said such groups tried &#8220;to create chaos&#8221;. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would argue that they are not trying to, &#8220;Create chaos,&#8221; they are exploiting the chaos that Erdogan created in Syria through tacit and explicit support of Salafist fighters in his attempt to depose Assad.<\/p>\n<p>This sort of sh%$ always comes back to bite you in the ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 30 people were killed in a terrorist attack of an Istanbul night club: The manhunt continues for a gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub as Turkey marked the start of the new year.The unknown assailant opened fire at Reina nightclub early on Sunday, before managing to flee amid the chaos.The motive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[830,831],"class_list":["post-180792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-near-east","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}