Turkey is alone. First, we’ll take a look at the racist reasons for this. If 39 men and women had been slaughtered in Paris or Brussels or Berlin on New Year’s Eve, the headlines would ripple on for three or four days. Two or three days if the victims had been western European. But of course, this being Turkey, which is a Muslim country – whose people are not always as white as those from “Christendom” – the headlines drifted off far more quickly. Not our lot, we Westerners said.

Thus few readers of this article will know that, proportionately, Arabs were among the largest number of casualties of this mass murder: from tinyLebanon alone, three dead and four wounded, both Muslims and Christian  …

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http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/turkey-isis-istanbul-new-year-shooting-nightclub-erdogan-turks-kurds-syria-why-we-dont-dwell-in-the-a7505606.html