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| The Grand Turk |
| Perpetrator of deadly Turkish car bombing ‘linked to IS group’ |
| 2016-05-03 |
| [FRANCE24] The perpetrator of a deadly boom-mobileing that hit the Turkish city of Gaziantep near the Syrian border at the weekend is linked to the 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.... (IS) myrmidon group, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's interior minister said on Monday. The bomber "is a member of a terrorist organization linked to ISIS," Interior Minister Efkan Ala said in televised remarks, using an alternative name for the jihadist group. One policeman was killed when the boom-mobile went off outside the police headquarters in Gaziantep on Sunday morning. Another police officer later died of his wounds. Ala said nearly 50 suspects were tossed into the calaboose in connection with the attack. The announcement will intensify concerns about the risk of jihadist attacks in Turkey, which has already seen tourism fall sharply since the start of the year. Turkey remains on high security alert after a series of attacks on its soil blamed on Kurdish Government front man and Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told news hounds after the weekly cabinet meeting the authorities had thwarted 49 suicide kabooms in Turkey so far this year. A radical Kurdish bully boy group, Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), on Sunday claimed a suicide kaboom in Turkey's former Ottoman capital of Bursa last week, saying the female assailant had failed to reach her intended target. Ala said that the bomber was a member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has waged a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state. The TAK is usually seen as a splinter group of the PKK. A member of international coalition against IS group, Turkey has taken more robust action against IS jihadists since last summer. The Turkish border town of Kilis has come under rocket fire from IS-controlled territory in recent weeks, prompting the army to respond with artillery fire. In the latest strikes on Kilis on Monday, one person was killed and two maimed when Katyusha-type rockets hit an inhabited area in the town, the Dogan news agency reported. Twenty people have now been killed in IS strikes on Kilis since January. Turkish artillery have launched deadly strikes on IS positions in Syria, while drones that took off from an air base in southern Turkey also pounded the jihadists, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported on Monday, citing security sources. "We have discussed steps to be taken by both using our national resources and in international solidarity to stave off threats arising from across the border," Kurtulmus told news hounds. |
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