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The Grand Turk
Tones of explosive material seized in city bordering Syria again
2015-11-28
[Hurriyet] Turkish police seized 120 tons of ammonium nitrate, a common explosive used in making improvised bombs, in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on Nov. 27, while four suspected members 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were detained in Istanbul.

Police raided an iron and steel depot at the KÃœSGET industrial site in Gaziantep, where they found 120 tons of ammonium nitrate, Anadolu Agency reported. The police sent the seized material to the Food, Agriculture and Livestock Ministry.

The raid came on the same day Istanbul police detained four suspects linked to ISIL in early-morning raids.
According to security sources, Istanbul police squads mounted simultaneous raids on a several addresses in the city's Bagcilar district, accompanied by special operations teams.

The operation was conducted to catch five suspects who allegedly helped both Turkish and foreign nationals travel to Iraq and Syria, the police said.

There was an ongoing operation to catch a final suspect, the police added.

Officers also seized five mobile phones, a laptop and two tablet computers as well as 18 hard disks at the addresses.

Images from the scene showed at least one squad of masked and armed officers going through a ground-floor entrance.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's General Staff said in a written statement that 509 people were captured while attempting to enter Turkey from Syria on Nov. 26.

Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster...
a local court in southeastern Diyarbakir province ruled for the arrests of five ISIL suspects on Nov. 27.

In September, tons of kaboom was seized near the Turkish-Syrian border.

As much as 6.5 tons of plastic kaboom was seized after coppers in Sanliurfa stopped and searched a long-haul truck full of onions in the Pekmezli neighborhood of Sanliurfa's Akcakale district on Sept. 9.

In another incident in the southeastern province of Mardin on Sept. 10, 20 tons of ammonium nitrate was seized after gendarmerie forces searched a cottage on a road connecting Mardin to Diyarbakir upon intelligence which claimed material used to make bombs was in the cottage on land owned by a private driving course.
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