Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday his country was suffering “one of the biggest waves of terrorism in its history”, vowing to crush the ISIS and Kurdish rebels behind a string of attacks. “We will hit these terrorist organisations as hard as possible,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul, two days after a suspected ISIS suicide attack in Istanbul that killed four foreigners.
“Faced with the terrorists’ new strategies we will develop new modes of combat and quickly overcome them,” Erdogan said, promising democratic values will not be sacrificed in fight.