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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish opposition castigates evacuation of tomb in northern Syria |
| 2015-02-23 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish opposition parties have harshly reacted to the evacuation of the Tomb of Suleyman Sah in northern Syria, accusing the government of abandoning the country's only territory outside its borders. "We are losing our lands without fighting for the first time in the 90-year history of the republic; this is not acceptable," main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Secretary General Gursel Tekin said during a presser in Ankara on Feb. 22. Turkey evacuated its military personnel protecting the tomb, as well as the artifacts in the mausoleum in an operation jointly conducted by the intelligence organization and the Turkish army. The operation came a few days after reports suggested that 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists had besieged the tomb and that Turkish soldiers protecting the enclave had been trapped by the krazed killers. The CHP politician recalled that he had invited government officials to visit the tomb together two days ago after the siege reports, but "they said then there is no problem." |
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