Did IS officially claimed it?
I didn't follow it closely, and I heard nothing about that, and they always claim for what they do, and even when they haven't planned like for something like San Bernardino, they manage to make it clear that they didn't decide it but still officially endorse it...
Well, they could very well have made it, the more you spread terror, the better.
Especially against Westerners, especially against tourism in countries where it is economically very important, like Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, and well, the most touristic one in the world, France, with the most touristic city in the world, Paris...
'Amusing' that in all cases it always benefits to our fancy blonde blunt national one (do I have to tell her name?), since one of her big economical tag words was 'they want to change France into a big touristic park!'.
Fact is, one of the big economical perspectives of this French govt was 'We have 80 millions tourists a year? We can reach 100 millions in the coming years.'
30 millions tourists a year for Paris, and well, big decrease after attacks, would be down by arround 30% lately iirc.
(I managed to hijack it toward France again.
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Well, very tough for a country like Tunisia for example, after the attack on the beach it decreased by about 80% iirc, in a country where tourism is very important, at least 10% of GDP iirc.
I haven't heard any figures for Turkey so far, would be too early, but could become tough for them too, but personally, I was pretty pissed by the reactions I heard from French and German administrations for example:
'We ask people to stop to go there.'
F**k, people aren't little clueless sheep, should be up to them they want to go as long as it's allowed by the country in which they go.
Moreover they are not helping countries touched by that, and it makes leaders of those, such as Turkey or Egypt, still more trolling around...
And, here we are in that wonderful tricky
Turkish Erdoganish kingdom, and it's not easy not to turn paranoid with such fancy people/trolls...
Hmm...
I made a quick Google search to try to answer my first question before posting, and it confirmed all what I thought, IS never claimed for any terror attack in Turkey, and several big ones happened during 2015, never claimed.
I found an interesting article on Slate.fr that confirmed all of this for me:
http://www.slate.fr/story/112791/daech-attentats-turquieHere for French speaking eyes.
They notably pointed out that they quickly claimed for terror attacks that recently happened in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and Jakarta, Indonesia, and they did that 2 days after the Istanbul attack, and not a word for that one.
In that quite interesting article, in which you can find 2 of 3 best guys in France to speak about EI/'Jihadism' (Wassim Nasr, France24, Romain Caillet, analyst, 3rd one being David Thompson, notably working for Radio France), they try to analyse and to find WHY OH WHY??!!
And really, when you try to look at all parameters, all contexts, in something as tricky as Erdogan parallel universe it's really not easy to find something clear.
You can at the very least notably see what a Turkish political analyst pointed out, during the 3 big enough terror attacks during 2015 in Turkey, it always benefited to AKP, and always been something bad for AKP political opponents.
But might not be as simple as that either...
Then the article tries to point out that some individuals could have decided that by themselves, but still, IS already endorsed several unplaned initiatives, and according to what Turkish authorities show, it's a whole cell that is under arrest for that last terror attack, then it would show an a significant organization.
So maybe you can say that IS claim for what it's the most strategical for them to claim, and the relationship they have with Turkey is very strategical, article well pointed this out too, for both economy and their 'international logistic', and they can try to play with that too...
And Turkey would, since the beginning apparently, play a very dangerous game with them, eventually playing with that very dangerous fire, sometimes maybe more or less letting them do, to eventually, who knows, sometimes helping them...
Crazy how that place, Turkey, and its brilliant administration, manage to totally sicken themselves...
