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The Grand Turk
Turkey arrests 16 Indonesians before joining Islamic State militants
2015-03-12
[ARA] The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday that units of the Turkish border guards tossed in the calaboose
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
16 Indonesian nationals before crossing into Syria illegally.

The front man of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Tanju Bilgic, said in a presser in Ankara that the arrested Indonesians were taking the route "usually used by jihadists" to join 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group (IS/ISIS) in Syria.

Bilgic stressed that the border guards arrested a group of 16 Indonesians from three families who were about to cross the border into Syria, pointing out that the initial information confirmed that the Indonesian embassy had been in touch with the group.

The Indonesian Embassy in Ankara did not provide any information to the Turkish authorities about the arrested group , according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
is considered a key conduit for imported muscle who join the IS ranks.

Both La Belle France and Britannia have said on previous occasions that Turkey did not take appropriate action to prevent more than 700 French and 500 British nationals from joining the radical group.
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