Sebastian Usher

And it isn't now.

It's been very much curbed and curtailed.

And all this news has come out really just in the past week or two.

The ambition of it was so extreme that it could never match that.

And, you know, remember that Saudi Arabia is going to host the World Cup in 2034.

So I think some of this is...

is looking at what money they have now and where they can get the best bang for their buck.

And also certain things that they cannot back away from.

I mean, the World Cup, they can't.

They have to come up with extraordinary stadiums and so on for that.

That's Sebastian Usher reporting.

This is not unusual in Turkey.

They take these preventive measures regularly and often detain quite large numbers of suspects.

And it's been pretty successful.

I mean, if you go back about a decade in Turkey, there was a real threat from ISIS coming across the border from Syria and then from Iraq with what was going on with Islamic State then.

Since then, there have been attacks, but not on that scale and not with that regularity.

This is not unusual in Turkey.

They take these preventive measures regularly and often detain quite large numbers of suspects.

And it's been pretty successful.

I mean, if you go back about a decade in Turkey, there was a real threat from ISIS coming across the border from Syria and then from Iraq with what was going on with Islamic State then.