Would you like your terror straight up or as a cocktail?
Turkey's Justice and Development Party hopes to boost its image by casting aspersions and creating terror conspiracies.
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.”
Davutoglu continued to refer to the terror cocktail concept in his subsequent television appearances. In one case, he said, “Terror organizations all drink from the same glass." He said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Islamic State and the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) "all want chaos in Turkey."
"We know the perpetrators and connections of the latest attack [Ankara bombing]," he said, adding there are "elements" of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad inside IS. "There are intelligence elements of other countries in the PKK" and the US-supported, Kurdish nationalist Democratic Union Party (PYD). "This is what I mean by terror cocktail.”
