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| The Grand Turk | |
| Turkey 'Expelled More Than 700 Jihadists' This Year | |
| 2015-08-14 | |
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has enjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and expelled more than 700 "foreign terrorist fighters" so far this year as they were trying to enter Syria, a top official said on Wednesday. Cemalettin Hasimi, head of media relations for the Turkish prime minister, told news hounds in Gay Paree that the rate of expulsions was increasing -- 520 suspected jihadists were intercepted in the whole of 2014. In total, since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, more than 1,800 suspected fighters have been prevented from slipping into that country from Turkey, said Hasimi. Turkey has also drawn up a list of 16,000 "foreign terrorist fighters banned from entering Turkey" from 108 countries, said the official. He urged greater international cooperation to prevent these suspected fighters from leaving their home countries to wage jihad in Syria in the ranks of 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.... (IS) group. Hasimi's comments came after Turkish authorities detained at least a dozen suspected IS members in coordinated dawn raids on Wednesday. On Tuesday, they had announced the arrest of 23 foreign nationals, including women and kiddies, seeking to cross into Syria to join IS holy warriors via the southeastern border town of Kilis. The suspects were reported as coming from China, Indonesia, Russia and Ukraine. The issue of imported muscle is an "international problem that requires an international response," Hasimi said. "It is much easier for the countries of origin to intercept them before they leave the country than to wait for the Turkish authorities to intercept them," he stressed. Turkey attracts around 40 million tourists every year and "there's no question of carrying out security checks on everyone that comes to our country," he said. Ankara has long been accused by its Western partners of failing to properly control the frontier and even of colluding with IS -- allegations it fiercely denies. In places, the border has been marked only with a crude wire-mesh fence ridden with holes that has provided easy passage to holy warriors and smugglers. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Ask, and ye shall receive. An Nahar reports that Israel arrested two, one arrested in Turkey on his way to ISIS, the other turned back at the Turkish border. Link So it does happen. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-08-14 23:27 |
| #4 Probably armed them, too. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2015-08-14 12:11 |
| #3 Expelled right into syria I wondered about that, Chris. I haven't seen reports of expelled people being arrested upon their return home. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-08-14 12:02 |
| #2 Turks been taking lessons from INS? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-08-14 07:32 |
| #1 Expelled right into syria |
| Posted by: chris 2015-08-14 07:29 |