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The Grand Turk
Turkey detains sixteen ''foreigners'' with ties to Islamist extremist groups
2023-04-09
[Shafaq News] Ottoman Turkish authorities have apprehended sixteen "foreigners" with suspected links to al-Qaeda and 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...
turban groups, the Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday.

The individuals, suspected of engaging in activities connected to the aforementioned organizations, were detained in various locations across Istanbul.

Anadolu cited anonymous security sources, who revealed that Istanbul's Counter-Terrorism Unit had initiated a coordinated operation to apprehend the suspects, believed to be involved in conflict zones such as Syria and Iraq.

The unit conducted a series of raids on fourteen sites in seven districts throughout Istanbul, successfully detaining sixteen "foreign terrorist fighters" who "pose a risk to the nation," according to the same sources.
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