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The Grand Turk
Turkish security forces arrest 24 Iraqis for alleged ISIS links
2021-01-03
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish police arrested 24 Iraqis for alleged ties to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) in the central province of Kirsehir on Thursday night, state media reported on Friday.

Counter-terrorism units in Kirsehir city carried out simultaneous raids against 26 suspects at 32 addresses and arrested 24 people. They are searching for the two remaining suspects, according to Anadolu Agency.

ISIS-related documents and materials were confiscated in the raids.

Ottoman Turkish security forces have carried out several large-scale arrests of foreign ISIS suspects recently. On November 13, they arrested eight Iraqis in the Black Sea province of Samsun. On Monday, forces in Kayseri province arrested seven Syrians allegedly involved in armed ISIS activities in Syria's Azaz town between 2011 and 2015.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
has not disclosed the ethnicity of the Iraqis arrested and there have been no comments from the Iraqi government.

Turkey is a member of the multinational Global Coalition against ISIS (ISIS), formed when ISIS took control of swathes of Syrian and Iraqi territory in 2014. Though Ankara has undertaken domestic operations against the bad boy group, its efforts beyond its borders have been limited. A 2016-2017 Ottoman Turkish military campaign in northern Syria, dubbed operation Euphrates Shield, aimed to push ISIS fighters away from the border and halt the advance of Kurdish forces. Ankara has conducted two other military operations against Kurdish forces in Syria, in 2018 and 2019.

Ankara has been accused of providing financial and military support for ISIS, a charge it has denied.
Related:
Kirsehir: 2020-11-03 Turkey detains 15 Iraqi nationals for links to IS group
Kirsehir: 2020-09-05 Yezidi children held by ISIS return from Turkey with KRG delegation
Kirsehir: 2018-03-24 Scimitar-wielding Turkish governor vows to conquer Jerusalem
Related:
Kayseri: 2020-10-24 Turkey captures alleged PKK member in ‘northern Iraq’: state media
Kayseri: 2019-12-31 Turkey Arrests 100 IS Suspects
Kayseri: 2019-10-20 Erdogan says Syrian Army is active in Turkey’s operation area
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  These ISIS radicals are to be reprogrammed and redeployed against Turkey's real enemies; the Kurds in Syria, LNA in Libya and against the Armenians in Azerbaijan.
Posted by: boomerc   2021-01-03 03:38  

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