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The Grand Turk
Turkish hospitals treated wounded ISIS jihadists fighting in Syria
2019-09-26
[ALMASDARNEWS] A member of 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
) said that he had received medical treatment in a Ottoman Turkish private hospital, confirming such practice was very common.

Muhammad Balusha, a former Islamic State fighter who was captured by Kurdish forces in northern Syria, said that he and other ISIS members entered The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
to be treated from wounds they had sustained during battles.

Balusha first joined the terror group in 2014 but crossed the border back in 2016 from the border town of Jarablus to receive treatment in Gaziantep alongside 15 other ISIS members.

"There were civilians too, but ISIS members stood out with their beards and clothes. It looked like the doctors and nurses were aware of the situation, and it is impossible that the state did not know," he said.

According to reports, ISIS terror group had cooperated directly with Ottoman Turkish state intelligence agencies for years on areas of "common interest".

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