Emergencies: France, Mali, and Turkey Are Playing With Fire

Emergencies: France, Mali, and Turkey Are Playing With Fire
Emergencies: France, Mali, and Turkey Are Playing With Fire

Lost in this month’s headlines is the fact that the democratically elected leaders of three countries close to the United States and important for its security strategies — France, Mali, and Turkey — have declared (or in France’s case, extended) formal states of emergency. All three states cited good reasons for doing so: France and…