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The Grand Turk
12 ISIS suspects arrested in Istanbul: state media
2021-04-03
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish anti-terrorism units have arrested 12 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) suspects in Istanbul, state media reported on Friday.

"Anti-terror units reportedly found that the suspects transferred revenues to holy warriors in conflict zones and simultaneously raided 12 locations in eight districts of the metropolis Istanbul, arresting 12," said Anadolu Agency.

"Digital and organizational documents" were found by security forces during the raids, Anadolu added.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of 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.

Numerous ISIS members have been found in Turkey.

Turkey has been accused of financial and military support of ISIS, according to a report from a former UN advisor, conduct Ankara has denied.

A Yazidi girl taken captive in 2014 was rescued during a raid in the Ottoman Turkish capital Ankara in February. Police said that one of her captors was said to be a senior ISIS member from Iraq.

Several other Yazidi children have been found with ISIS-linked families in Turkey.
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