Attack in Turkey, the condolences of San Marino
The ambassador of the Republic of San Marino in Turkey, Giorgio Girelli, having learned of the attack in Istanbul, sent a message to the Turkish ambassador in Rome and San Marino, Ömer Gücük, declaring himself “deeply dismayed by the cowardly attack perpetrated in the Taksim of Istanbul”. Girelli expressed “intense condolences for the victims and solidarity with the people and the government of the Republic of Turkey”. The San Marino diplomat then expressed the hope that “those responsible for this infamous tragedy will be punished in an exemplary manner and that reasonableness and peaceful confrontation will prevail as means capable of establishing a solution to conflicts, which are not extinguished but accentuated by useless and unfortunate massacres. The cultural and mental path hoped for is certainly difficult but we must not give up encouraging it so that they find space for peaceful coexistence and solidarity”, as reported by the Diplomatic Journal. Should we therefore assume that someone is not happy with Ankara’s position within the Russian-Ukrainian conflict? Or are they old reminiscences of regime opponents who are waking up from a long slumber? The matrix could be Syrian because a woman was arrested after one day; she allegedly entered Turkey illegally from the Adria region in northern SyriaIstanbul bombing, which caused the death of six people, is of Syrian nationality and confessed to having been trained by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish militias of the Ypg. “According to initial assessments, the order for the deadly terrorist attack came from Ayn al-Arab (Kobane) in northern Syria, where the PKK-YPG has its Syrian headquarters,” Minister Soylu said, referring to to the PKK and the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Unit, deemed “terrorist” by Ankara. Fahrettin AltunTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s communications director added that “terrorist attacks are direct or indirect consequences of some countries’ support for terrorist organizations.” The six people who lost their lives in the attack are all Turkish citizens. This was announced by city prefect Ali Yerlikaya expressing closeness to the families of the victims, including a mother and her daughter, a father and his daughter, a married couple and another person. Of the 81 injured in all, 50 have been discharged while 31 are still in hospital and two are serious, Yerlikaya added.