Would you like your terror straight up or as a cocktail?

Metin Gurcan

Oct 22, 2015

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu talks during an interview with Reuters in Istanbul, Turkey, October 14, 2015. Davutoglu told Reuters on Wednesday some of the suspects in a suicide bombing that killed 97 people in Ankara had spent months in Syria and that they could be linked to Islamic State or to Kurdish militants. "We are working on (investigating) two terrorist organisations, Daesh (Islamic State) and PKK, because we have certain evidence regarding the suicide bombers having links with Daesh, but — Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu talks during an interview with Reuters in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 14, 2015. Davutoglu told Reuters that some of the suspects in a suicide bombing that killed 97 people in Ankara had spent months in Syria and could be linked to the Islamic State or to Kurdish militants. — REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Türkçe

Turkey was introduced to the phrase “terror cocktail” in the first television appearance of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu after the Oct. 10 bomb attack in Ankara.

“[The attack was] an attempt to prevent the AKP [Justice and Development Party] from becoming the single ruling party, to influence the outcome of the election,” Davutoglu said. “It is clear that someone is blending all terror organizations in what I call the terror cocktail, to carry out operations.”