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The Grand Turk
Turkey Detains over 750 in Anti-IS Raids
2017-02-07
[AnNahar] Turkish security forces have detained over 750 people suspected of links to 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
turban group in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's biggest ever crackdown against the organization, state media said Monday.

Some 450 suspects were picked up in the initial phase of the nationwide operation on Sunday but the number held has now risen to 763, the Anadolu news agency said.

It said raids took place in 29 of Turkey's 81 provinces and documents, weapons and ammunition were also seized.
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