Week in Review: Turkey Terror Attack; Syria Political Solution

Week in Review

Sheikh Moaz Alkhatib, President of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces and U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden (R) meet for bilateral talks during the 49th Conference on Security Policy in Munich February 2, 2013. Senior U.S., Russian and U.N. officials, along with the leader of the Syrian opposition, were all expected in Munich on Saturday, providing a rare opportunity for talks to revive efforts to end the civil war in Syria. REUTERS/Michael Dalder(GERMANY - Tags: MILITARY — Sheikh Moaz Alkhatib, President of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces and US Vice President Joe Biden met for bilateral talks during the 49th Conference on Security Policy in Munich. Feb. 2, 2013. — REUTERS/Michael Dalder

While Al-Monitor "uncovers the trends while covering the news,” this week Al-Monitor broke both news and trends in Turkey and on Syria.

Turkey Pulse on Scene in Ankara

Al-Monitor’s Tulin Daloglu was one of the first reporters on the scene of the suicide bombing at the US Embassy in Ankara on Friday [Feb. 1], which killed an embassy guard, as well as the bomber himself, and injured journalist Didem Tuncay. Daloglu’s reporting included the new Twitter ‘Vine’ technology, and was linked to the New York Times Lede coverage of the bombing aftermath. She appeared as a guest Friday on the PBS NewsHour to discuss the bombing.

Mustafa Akyol provided one of the first analyses of the bomber, Ecevit Şanlı, 39, a member of a radical communist group, the outlawed People's Revolutionary Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), a Marxist-Leninist terror organization which is anti-US, anti-NATO and opposed to Turkey’s support for the Syrian opposition.

Week in Review: Turkey Terror Attack; Syria Political Solution

Al-Monitor’s coverage and analysis of the terrorist attack on the US embassy in Turkey and the possibility of a new opening for a political solution to the Syrian crisis.

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