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The Grand Turk
Hurriyet: Missing Turkish soldier seen in Islamic State hands
2015-09-06
[Ynet] A Turkish soldier who went missing this week on the border with Syrian territory controlled by 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
has been seen in a hospital run by the bad boys, Hurriyet newspaper reported on Saturday.

If confirmed, the soldier's capture would be a major problem for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, after it stepped up military action against Islamic State in July, opening its air bases to US-led coalition war planes and launching air strikes.

The soldier vanished and another was killed in cross-border shooting with Islamic State fighters on Tuesday near the Turkish town of Kilis, close to Syrian territory that has been under Islamic State control for months.

According to security sources citing intelligence reports, Hurriyet Daily News reported that the soldier had been maimed in the foot and was taken by turbans to a hospital under their control close to the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Turkish officials declined to comment.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  We can guess where this is headed, or rather not headed.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-09-06 14:24  

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