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| The Grand Turk |
| Two police officers, seven ISIL militants killed in major operation in southeastern Turkey |
| 2015-10-27 |
| [Hurriyet] Two coppers and seven 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) Lions of Islam were killed on Oct. 26 in a major operation in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told news hounds in Istanbul that 12 ISIL Lions of Islam were captured in the operation while five coppers were maimed. "The operation started at 4 a.m. as a result of intelligence sharing from different intelligence sources. Unfortunately, when our coppers were breaking the doors with a sledgehammer using a routine method, a booby trap planted around the house was set off unexpectedly, and two of our coppers were martyred. Seven Daesh [Islamic State] [ISIL] Lions of Islam were killed during the operations in around three or four houses. Twelve Lions of Islam were captured alive. Apart from the two martyred coppers, we have five maimed officers," Kurtulmus said. Police organized simultaneous operations on 17 houses suspected of harboring ISIL Lions of Islam at around 4 a.m. on Oct. 26. Security teams raided a detached house in the Huzurevler neighborhood of Diyarbakir's Kayapinar district as part of the operation. As soon as the police entered the compound, Lions of Islam detonated a remote-controlled explosive previously placed in the house's garden, killing the two officers and wounding five colleagues. The injured officers were transferred to nearby hospitals. "This was an important operation... we can say we have neutralized a major Daesh [Islamic State] cell," said Kurtulmus, using an Arabic name for ISIL. "We are trying to determine any links with cells in other cities." Two coppers, identified as Gökhan Cakici, 22, and Sadik Özkan, 25, shuffled off the mortal coil, while five other officers were being treated at Dicle University Medical Faculty Hospital. The seven deceased Lions of Islam and 12 Lions of Islam captured alive were all Turkish citizens, according to state-run Anadolu Agency. Police are focusing on whether they have any link with the recent ISIL bombings in Ankara, Suruc and Diyarbakir. |
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