has been using every terrorist attack in turkey as a pretext to launch a crackdown on any other group that he sees as his own political opposition. some of these attacks that seem to have the indicators of isis being behind them he s blamed on kurdish separatists. one of the most recent attacks, earlier in december that was a bombing that struck mostly police officers outside of a stadium in central istanbul and killed about 38 police officers and wounded some 150 more, erdogan went ahead and already in the last few days blamed it on a social movement that fell out of the favor with, and for a tula gulen is actually now in exile in the united states, erdogan has blamed all sorts of attacks and really political inconveniences on on fatula