‘Things Look Gloomy’: Turkey in Desperate Need of Security Upgrades

‘Things Look Gloomy’: Turkey in Desperate Need of Security Upgrades

Facing an increase in domestic terrorism, Turkish President Erdogan’s government is scrambling to fine-tune its terrorist prevention methods and plans to purchase a number of new intelligence and surveillance systems.

Last October, suicide bombers killed over 100 peace activists in Ankara. In January, a radical Islamist killed ten in Istanbul. Earlier this month, an attacker killed nearly 30 people after detonating a bomb near military buses in Ankara.