Murkier in Turkey
A bomb went off in Küçükçekmece this morning, apparently aimed at a police bus, injuring 15. Küçükçekmece is one of those suburbs out past the airport that no one really puts on top of their list of local tourist attractions. It sounds like a typical PKK hit to me, but who knows. The PKK, by the way, declared an end to the cease-fire on June 6. This would usually be really big news around here, but given other events, the declaration went almost unnoticed. If the PKK's responsible for this bombing (I bet they are), then you have to assume they were getting a little jealous of all the attention everyone's giving the İHH these days.
Meanwhile, it's pouring (and flooding) here, with traffic snarled, so no one really feels like taking to the streets to protest. Now, if you ask me, what the Turkish people should be protesting are the "non-standard" construction practices that cause the streets here to flood whenever there's a heavy rainstorm. That's what's most likely to kill them, given the seismic risk here. It's odd that for all the Turkish passion for conspiracy theories, no one here really discusses the biggest real conspiracy and the biggest real threat to the country: the nexus between construction money and the political parties, all of which run on it.
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