“There is no reason why the bomb that exploded in Ankara cannot explode in Brussels ,”

“There is no reason why the bomb that exploded in Ankara cannot explode in Brussels, in any other European city,” Erdogan said during a Friday speech to commemorate a famous World War I battle in the Turkish coastal town of Canakkale.

A few days later on Tuesday, two bomb attacks at Brussels airport killed at least 14 people and left nearly 100 people wounded, while a separate bombing in a metro station killed around 20 people and injured about 100 more.