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The Grand Turk
Report: Turkish Professor Loses Three Sons to IS
2015-03-21
[AnNahar] An assistant professor at a Turkish university has appealed to the government for help after his three teenage sons left to fight with 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 jihadists in Iraq and Syria, the Hurriyet daily reported Friday.

The professor, named only as Dr M. Sefik I., first lost his elder son, a dentistry student at Hacettepe University in Ankara, who on March 10 sent his parents a message asking them to pray for him before leaving Turkish territory.

The elder son then helped his 16-year-old twin brothers to cross the Turkish border to Syria, the paper added.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's National Intelligence Agency (MIT) has informed the family the three are believed to have first gone to Syria and then to Iraq to fight with the IS jihadists.

The parents have now appealed to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and the MIT for help in urging them to come back.

"We taught them to be human beings. We do not know how they arrived at that stage," said the father, whose place of work and full name was not given by the paper.

According to Hurriyet, over 2,300 Turks are believed to have joined the ranks of IS faceless myrmidons who have taken swathes of Iraq and Syria up to the Turkish border.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Look at the bright side there Professor; at least they didn't join ACORN.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2015-03-21 11:03  

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