ABSTRACT
On September 10, 2001, the world press reported briefly that the previous evening a suicide bomber had killed two policemen near the German consulate general in Istanbul. Twenty people were injured in the explosion, including an Australian tourist. She died soon afterwards. The suicide bomber belonged to a Marxist-Leninist group known as DHKP/C (Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front), which had carried out 53 murders in eight years.1 At the time, DHKP/C had an office, which flew its flag, in Brussels. Its newspaper was published in Holland. The free world took little notice as another statistic was added to the toll of terrorist outrages in Turkey. Terrorism had caused the death of more than 35,000 people in Turkey. But the fact that the country was a member of NATO and of the Council of Europe, and that it was an associate member and a candidate for full membership of the European Union did not ensure it sufficient support from its friends and allies in the fight against terrorism.
