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| The Grand Turk |
| Davutoglu Vows to Fight Border Threats |
| 2015-07-25 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has pledged to take all measures against threats targeting the country's borders, including those from groups like the so-called '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.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group. "All precautions will surely be taken without further order if any terrorist organization or others approach the borders of the Turkish Republic in a threatening way," he told news hounds after a visit to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Council of State on Friday in the capital, Ankara. His remarks followed early-morning The operation comes a day after a firefight with ISIL fighters across the Syrian border, in which one Turkish soldier was killed and two others were maimed. Davutoglu stressed that ISIL positions were destroyed in Friday's operation, saying Thursday's cross-border shootout gave Turkey the right to exercise self-defense. |
| Posted by:Fred |