[AnNahar] ...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....
during morning raids in two provinces, state news agency Anadolu reported.
In Ankara, 52 people were taken into custody after the capital's chief prosecutor issued 64 arrest warrants as part of a probe into the IS jihadist group.
Raids continued to find the 12 other suspects.
Police discovered weapons including guns and ammunition at the homes of the suspects in Ankara, Anadolu reported.
And in the northern province of Samsun, 10 Iraqis were detained over suspected IS ties, the agency said.
The arrests come as
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has vowed to eliminate IS in Syria, threatening to launch an offensive soon against jihadists and a Syrian Kurdish militia in the wake of the U.S. announcement to withdraw all ground forces from the war-torn country.