Turkey’s brittle democracy exposed by killing of 97 people

Suicide bombing this month at Ankara peace rally may further divide a society that has become increasingly authoritarian, says Andrew Finkel

THE date 10/10 is synonymous with Turkey’s most deadly terrorist attack — the day this month when two suicide bombers killed 97 people who were gathering outside the Ankara train station to attend a peace rally.

It will be another tragedy if the carnage fails to unite the country under a banner of grief, but only drives a wedge still deeper into an already divided society, thus serving the bombers’ ends.