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The Grand Turk
Turkey detains 20 suspected IS group members, including 15 foreigners: Police
2018-01-01
[AlHaram] Ottoman Turkish police have detained 20 people, including 15 foreign nationals, on suspicion of links to 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....
group during raids in Istanbul, tightening security ahead of the anniversary of a nightclub attack in which dozens were killed.

The raids by the anti-terrorist branch of the Istanbul police took place on Saturday and targeted four locations across the city, the police said in a statement on Sunday. They did not give the nationalities of the foreign suspects.

The state-run Anadolu news agency said the suspects were believed to have been plannning an attack during New Year's Eve celebrations in the city.

Ottoman Turkish police have been ramping up operations against suspected Islamic State group faceless myrmidons in recent days, detaining around 195 on Thursday and Friday.
A good portion of those are Kurds, not ISIS jihadis, but you aren’t to pay attention to that detail, dear Reader.
During New Year's celebrations a year ago, a man with an assault rifle rubbed out 39 people including Turks and visitors from several Arab nations, India and Canada at an exclusive nightclub in Istanbul, the country's biggest city. Islamic State group grabbed credit for that shooting, one of a series of attacks believed to have been carried out by the jihadists and Kurdish faceless myrmidons in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
in the last couple of years. A trial of those allegedly involved in the nightclub attack began this month.

On New Year's Eve, the number of coppers on duty in Istanbul will be doubled to 37,000 and public celebrations will be cancelled or banned in some districts for security reasons, officials have said.

Many roads in central Istanbul districts will be closed, while heavy vehicles will not be allowed to enter some areas, police have also said.
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