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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey puts travel ban on 12,500 suspected foreign fighters |
| 2015-04-13 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has slapped a travel ban on more than 12,500 suspected imported muscle, and deported another 1,200, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said, noting that 5,000 people have been put on a blacklist since January, when Ankara strengthened its efforts to stem the flow of jihadists to Syria. Most of the fighters were determined on the basis of Turkey's own intelligence, not from the information given from source countries of imported muscle trying to cross into Syria through Turkish territory, Cavusoglu said April 10 at a training program for foreign diplomats. Turkey has bolstered its effort to stem the flow of and deny entry to potential imported muscle. Turkish leaders frequently state that Ankara is facing unfair accusations over the flow of imported muscle into Syria even though it has been doing its best to close its borders. Turkey has long been criticized by the international community for tolerating imported muscle passing through its territory 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria. In the second half of 2014, Turkey increased its intelligence cooperation with European countries, as the former began putting a travel ban on several thousand foreign individuals. Turkish officials have stressed the failure of European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... countries in halting the travel of imported muscle and called on them to intensify intelligence sharing with Turkey on the alleged jihadists. Ankara describes the imported muscle issue as "complicated" and has called on EU countries to stop imported muscle as they leave their own countries. |
| Posted by:Fred |