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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group grabbed credit for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during a Sunday Mass that killed one person, in a statement issued late Sunday.
The 72 year old Christian Turkish woman, as she was described previously.
The turban group said that it "attacked a gathering of Christian unbelievers during their polytheistic ceremony" inside the Santa Maria Church in the Buyukdere neighborhood in Istanbul on Sunday....the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said shortly before midnight that two men he described as members of the Islamic State turban movement had been arrested for the attack. One of the suspects is from Tajikistan, and the other from Russia.
The statement claiming responsibility was published on Aamaq, the media arm of the murderous Moslem group, along with photos of two masked men holding guns whom it identified as the attackers.
It described the attack as killing one person and wounding another, while Ottoman Turkish authorities said no one was injured besides the person killed.
Yerlikaya said police had raided 30 locations and detained a total of 47 people as part of the investigation into the attack.
"We will never tolerate those who try to disrupt the peace of our country — terrorists, their collaborators, both national and international criminal groups, and those who aim at our unity and solidarity," Yerlikaya said.
On January 3 this year, 25 suspected Islamic State members were arrested across Turkey, accused of plotting attacks on churches and synagogues, according to state-run Anadolu Agency.
Probably somehow connected to the current attack, or the tail supporting two separate planned attacks.
Islamic State has not previously targeted places of worship in Turkey, but the group has carried out a string of deadly attacks in the country, including a shooting at an Istanbul nightclub in 2017 that killed 39 people, and a 2015 bombing attack in Ankara that killed 109.