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The Grand Turk

Turkish police arrest eight Iraqi ISIS suspects in raids: state media

2020-11-16

[Rudaw] Eight Iraqis were among 13 people arrested by ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish police in coordinated raids against suspected members 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) on Friday, ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish state media has reported.

All arrests of Iraqis were made in raids conducted in the Black Sea province of Samsun, according to Anadolu Agency (AA). Police in the province were reportedly after 11 Iraqi suspects, but three remain on the lam.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her.
Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?...
police in the western province of Izmir arrested five people with alleged links to Mahmut Ozden — a suspected senior member of ISIS who was previously arrested by security forces in Adana province, state-owned AA reported. Police also seized digital material at the houses of the suspects.

The ethnicity of the Iraqi arrestees is unknown, and the Iraqi government has yet to comment on the arrests.

~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
is a member of the multinational Global Coalition Against ISIS (ISIS), formed when ISIS took control of swathes of Syrian and Iraqi territory in 2014.

Though Turkey has undertaken domestic operations against the bad boy group, its efforts beyond its borders have been limited. Instead, it has conducted major cross-border offensives against the Kurdish-led forces that fought ISIS on the ground.

According to data by AA, ISIS has carried out at least 10 suicide kabooms, seven kabooms and four armed attacks in the last six years, killing some 315 people and injuring hundreds others.

A new report by ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish security forces said that they arrested 204 ISIS suspects in raids in the month of October.

Turkey has been accused of financial and military support of ISIS, conduct Ankara has denied.

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