[Hurriyet Daily News] Fifty individuals have been detained for alleged links to 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Istanbul, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported, in the wake of the Oct. 10 Ankara bombing that killed at least 102 civilians.
The detained suspects, all of whom were foreign nationals, were detained in a pre-dawn operation against ISIL Lions of Islam on Oct. 18 after Istanbul Police Department Counterterrorism Unit officers raided 17 homes in Pendik, a district on Istanbul's Anatolian side.
Speaking after the deadly twin blasts that killed at least 102 civilians and maimed hundreds of others ahead of a peace rally in the Turkish capital on Oct. 10, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said ISIL was the focal point in the investigation launched into the deadly bombings.
Ömer Deniz Dundar, allegedly one of the two jacket wallahs in the Ankara blast, and his twin brother, Mahmut Gazi Dundar, had previously been probed by Turkish prosecutors for alleged links to al-Qaeda, but the investigation was dropped, news website Radikal reported on Oct. 16.
The police raids came as the Istanbul Police Department gathered intelligence that newly arrived ISIL-linked suspects were about to head to conflict zones in Iraq and Syria.
The detained suspects were taken to the police department in Istanbul's Fatih district after undergoing health check-ups.
In a separate anti-terror police operation against the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) Lions of Islam in Istanbul, the police department's counterterrorism unit officers raided 16 homes in the districts of Atasehir, Sariyer, Gaziosmanpasa and Sultangazi early Oct. 18, although there was no immediate word of detentions.
A 24-year-old woman identified by the initials D.D. was maimed being shot by a person sharing the same apartment with D.D. as the latter reportedly grabbed a police gun while coppers searched D.D.'s home, Anadolu Agency reported. On the other hand, the victims' brother, Emrah Dogan, speaking to journalists in front of the hospital where D.D. was taken in for treatment, accused the coppers for the shooting, stating that police had directly aimed at his sister.
D.D., who was taken to a public hospital in Istanbul's Okmeydani neighborhood with gunshot wounds to the lungs, is reported to be at death's door.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has stepped up anti-terror police operations against ISIL Lions of Islam in the country, as the Oct. 10 twin blasts in the Turkish capital sent shockwaves through the country, with at least 102 civilians dead and hundreds of others injured.
Thirteen ISIL-linked suspects have reportedly been detained so far within the investigation launched into the Ankara bombing.
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