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The Grand Turk
Turkish police detain 9 suspected ISIL militants for ‘planning attacks on referendum ballot boxes’
2017-04-14
Why would ISIS attack the ballot boxes? Since their goal is to overthrow Turkey altogether, making it into another of their caliphates, what difference does it make whether or not the citizenry wants to give President Erdogan more or less power? I could see them attacking the voters, but that is not the accusation.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Police in the southern province of Mersin have detained nine suspected bandidos bandidos myrmidons of 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....
 of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) after receiving intelligence that the jihadist group ordered its followers to carry out attacks on ballot boxes set for the April 16 referendum, which will decide whether the current parliamentary system should be shifted into an executive presidency.

The Mersin Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office released a statement regarding the operation carried out on April 12, saying that the efforts to reveal ISIS’s acts were launched by the provincial police’s counter-terrorism bureau in coordination with the prosecutor’s office.
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