[Iran Press TV] A newly-released online video shows people in ISIL clothes with the group's flag travelling freely in the Turkish city of Istanbul.The video filmed on the Istanbul subway shows two young men wearing ISIL T-shirts freely heading for their destination.
This comes as shops in several countries have been promoting ISIL clothes, toy equipment and gifts.
The footage has raised major concerns that those purchasing such clothes are somehow showing loyalty to the terrorist group.
Experts say the footage circulating online appears genuine and has been corroborated by other reports.
Quoting Turkish government officials and media reports, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported on Monday that Turkey is one of the biggest sources of imported muscle for the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
group, which has captured large swathes of land in Iraq and Syria.
The newspaper cited the example of one former fighter who had been taken to Syria along with 10 of his friends and joined the ISIL after 15 days of training in the city of Raqqa.
This is not the first time that media expose links between the Turkish government and Takfiri holy warriors.
German television station ARD has recently revealed that an office, run by ISIL-affiliated Turks, helps foreign forces of Evil cross the Turkish border to join the terrorist group's forces of Evil in Iraq and Syria. The report said forces of Evil have been paid up to 400 euros to join the battles.
The German state TV station added that there are more than 2,000 forces of Evil joining ISIL who come from Europe, adding that they enter Istanbul as a tourist and then cross borders into Iraq and Syria.