a short time ago i spoke to zafar arapkirli, a turkish journalist and broadcaster, on the line from istanbulabout it, but the very sad part of the story, we were expecting this. you won't ask why we were expecting this, there were passed attacks and three weeks ago we were outside the stadium, there was a twin bomb attack where 35 people died and... a5 people died and hundreds injured. i narrowly escaped that attack by a couple of minutes. last summer there was an attack on the main airport of istanbul. it wasn't a matter of if anything would happen but it was a matter of when and how and how big the casualties would be. it came just on the night of new year's eve and at the very moment when people, including me, hundreds of thousands, maybe tens of millions of people, we re maybe tens of millions of people, were exchanging goodwill messages for the next year. believe me, honestly, everyone was using the same centre. —— sentence. they were saying to each other that never again should we repeat 2016. it came just at the moment when we were exchanging these sorts of goodwill messages. 25 polic