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The Grand Turk
Turkey detains 35 suspected Islamic State members in Istanbul: Broadcaster Haberturk
2017-02-23
[AlAhram] Turkish authorities on Wednesday detained 35 suspected members of 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....
in raids across Istanbul, broadcaster Haberturk said.

Police carried out simultaneous raids in 41 locations across the city and collected several documents linked to the myrmidon group, it said.

The group has been blamed for at least half a dozen attacks on civilian targets in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
over the past 18 months, prompting the authorities to intensify efforts to break up its suspected networks.
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