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Turkey says 339 possible attacks foiled in 2016, mostly Kurdish
[Ynet] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's interior minister says authorities have thwarted a total of 339 possible attacks in 2016, most of them by Kurdish bully boys. Suleyman Soylu told parliament Tuesday that the foiled attacks include 313 planned attempts by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and 22 by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. The minister said authorities seized 247 bombs, 23 boom-mobiles and detained 23 would-be jacket wallahs last year. Speaking a day after the IS grabbed credit for the deadly attack at a popular Istanbul nightclub, Soylu said some 80 of the attacks were thwarted in the past three months. More than 3,506 IS suspects were detained in 2016, including 1,531 foreign nationals, the minister said. Soylu said authorities had stepped up security on public transportation such as trams and buses as well as airports and at train and bus terminals. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-04 |
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