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It does make some sense though. Paris carried a greater impact because of the shock of it happening on European soil in a country that has been stable and peaceful for decades. It's also a country that, for the vast majority of us, we're likely to have more affinity with and feel closer to than Ankara or Beirut. It's true that much worse violence goes on everyday in Syria, Iraq etc. and that worse violence has occurred in Lebanon, Gaza and other countries but its exactly because the violence is so frequent there that it feels like another world to us, it's very hard to comprehend. Going to a rock concert or drinking at a bar on a Friday evening we can comprehend. There's more a feeling that that could have been us who went out to enjoy the start of the weekend and somehow ended up at the centre of a deadly terror attack.