Turkey in recent times has often been held up as the model standard of how an Islamic democracy should function. President Abdullah Gul enjoys very high approval ratings and the country's economy is amongst the strongest in the Islamic world.
Why then the attacks perpetrated tonight in the southeastern portion of the country, which the government claims to be the doing of a Kurdish terrorist group? Could it be that this country, so long acting as a stable military partner for the United States, has ethnic and religious tension of its own?
Turkey has been repeatedly denied membership into the European Union. Symbolically, these attacks, deemed Islamic extremist related, come during the holy month of Ramadan. Turkey obviously has some internal resolution ahead of it before it can be fully embraced by Western society.
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