Personal protection against terror

Not a nice subject, I know. With the renewed wave of terror all around the country, the least we can do, as ordinary mortals, is to take our own personal measures.  

As a plain, commonplace, non-expert Turkish citizen who has lived through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, I (and you in general) have accumulated more knowledge on terror than an ordinary western expert. I did not say that; a couple of international experts told me that. 

As a resident of Turkey in these times, we have to be alert, watchful and extremely observant. Sad, but we are back to the days of the 1970s. 

In the beginning of the terror wave, right after the Suruç massacre, on July 23, two traffic police officers were ambushed, shot and one of them killed while they responded to a (fake) accident call. Well, I'm just wondering, didn't these poor officers or their supervisors read papers about recent incidents? Didn't they know that one of those incidents following the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris involved the shooting down of traffic police after a fake call? This was the repetition of the same plot. I mean, would you not be alert about these kinds of ambushes? 

What else do I remember as fatal personal mistakes against terror attacks? Our beloved colleague U?ur Mumcu died in 1993 when his car exploded. We learned later that as a precaution, he would always start his car a few minutes earlier, alone, while his family remained behind. 

Now, this has been occupying my mind ever since. Obviously he received death threats, serious ones as to keep his family out of danger. Well then, if you can think of that, then maybe think of parking your car in a closed garage, or looking under your car for any suspicious wires, bombs, pipes, cables, or any kind of change ...