The New York Times - OCT. 5, 2014
Last week, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
declared that Turkey is ready “for any cooperation in the fight against
terrorism.” Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu argued that Islamic State
militants pose a greater threat to Turkey and the Muslim world than to
the West.
But
Turkey’s dilemma is far more grave than its leaders realize. Indeed,
Turkey’s current situation resembles the early years of Pakistan’s sponsorship of the Taliban.
The Islamic State is recruiting militants in Turkey. And failure to
clean its own house now could lead Turkey down the path of
“Pakistanization,” whereby a resident jihadist infrastructure causes
Sunni extremism to ingrain itself deeply within the fabric of society.
Although
Turkey now recognizes the threat — the Turkish government voted to
authorize military force in Iraq and Syria on Thursday — it has yet to
come to terms with its own responsibility for helping to create it.
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