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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish town haunted by lost sons, hand of Islamic State |
| 2015-10-16 |
| In a small teahouse in the conservative southeastern Turkish town of Adiyaman, two brothers would hold court with young followers, praying, reading the Koran and painting a picture of a better life across the border in Syria, in the ranks of Islamic State. Now the Islam Tea Shop, its upper windows blacked out and etched with white Arabic script, has closed down and the brothers, according to authorities, are both probably dead; one behind a July suicide attack that killed 33, the other a prime suspect in Saturday's Ankara bombing that claimed 99 lives...[Hikmet] Kizilbay said he reported his son to police two years ago after he disappeared, abandoning plans to go to university. He returned some seven months later and tried to take his mother's gold bracelets, accusing her of being an infidel and saying he wanted to give money to "our Muslim brothers fighting in Syria". "He's gone, they brainwashed him," Kizilbay told Reuters, fighting back tears as he sat in the car he now uses to earn money as a private taxi driver. "Even if he comes back again, he's not the same person any more ... If he's going to harm our society, kill our soldiers, police, teachers and students, it's best he comes back in a coffin," Kizilbay said. |
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