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| Turkey arrests 23 people near Syrian border before joining ISIS |
| 2015-04-07 |
[ARA] On Monday, the Turkish army patrols tossed in the calabooseDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! 23 people in separate areas near the Syrian border, saying they were on their way 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group (IS/ISIS). The Turkish authorities didn't reveal the identities of the detainees. Also, a testimony of a Turkish citizen in countryside of Ankara confirmed in front of the Turkish parliament that the detained people were aiming to enter the Syrian territory to join the radical group of IS, the Turkish news agency Cihan reported. A patrol of the Turkish army stopped these people's car ــ based on intelligence informationــ near the village of Asagi Biler Bay of the city of Kilis on the Syrian border, carrying 20 people from different nationalities, who were on their way to cross the border into IS-held Syrian areas, according to a statement issued by the Turkish army leadership on Monday. The Turkish army leadership announced that they arrested a German man on the Turkish-Syrian border in Gaziantep state on Sunday, who was trying to cross the border to join the IS group, and two other people were arrested near the town of Agca Kalla near the Syrian city of Tel Abyad while trying to cross the border. The Army's leadership pointed out that these two young men were carrying weapons and military equipment. "The Turkish people's concerns mounted recently about the 'brainwashing cases' taking place in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , aimed attending youngsters to join the IS' ranks," Turkish journalist Mehmet Ozbelek told ARA News. "Many of them are being transferred by buses to the Syrian border." Speaking to ARA News, civil rights activist Abdo Baqi reported that aside from those who have been arrested, there are dozens and hundreds of bully boyz cross daily these borders, without being questioned by the Turkish authorities. "If Turkey did not allow the The Turkish opposition activists and Syrian media workers accuse the Turkish government of being soft on the issue of bully boyz crossing from Turkey into Syrian territory. |
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| Posted by: Raj 2015-04-07 00:21 |