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| The Grand Turk |
| Anti-ISIL operations in Turkey continue, police detain over 20 suspects |
| 2017-01-19 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish police have been conducting operations against 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in the northwestern province of Bursa and the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, a day after Reina attacker Abdulkadir Masharipov was apprehended in an operation in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district. Police in Bursa have apprehended 27 ISIS suspects along with 29 children due to their alleged links to the terror attack on Istanbul’s Reina nightclub on New Year’s Eve that killed 39 people, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Jan. 18. Counter-terrorism police had previously revealed that one suspect, who lived together with Masharipov, in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, came to the province following the attack. Police units later followed the suspect and other connected people, conducting simultaneous operations on seven different addresses in the province’s Nilufer and Göksu districts with the participation of special forces. During the operation, police apprehended a total of 27 suspects, including 15 women, of Tajik, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Uighur origin, along with 29 children at six residences. Police also seized 40 passports, 38 fake identities and 15 packed mobile phones during searches at another address that was empty. According to police, the empty house was used by two organizers identified as Tajik citizens M.S. and N.S. The latter was apprehended in the western province of Izmir while M.S. is still on the run. The two suspects reportedly rented houses for ISIS members in Istanbul, Bursa and Izmir provinces by introducing themselves as dentists, doctors or businessmen. M.S. reportedly settled foreigners who illegally entered the country to join the jihadist group in Istanbul before taking them to residences rented in Bursa and Izmir with N.S. The suspects who were settled at such residences reportedly knew the duo according to different names and professions. Elsewhere, an ISIS courier was caught near the Turkish-Syrian border on Jan. 18. Abud Mahho, who illegally entered ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... through the Akcakale district of the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, was caught in an operation near the border, Dogan News Agency reported. Anti-terror police have conducted an operation at a house near the border where they apprehended the courier. Mahho, who was carrying weapons and ammunition for the jihadist organization, pointed to a spot near the border where ammunition buried underground in bags were found, as well as material used in making boom jackets were seized. Police have determined that the seized materials carried similar features with the materials ISIS used in previous attacks in Turkey. |
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