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The Grand Turk
Turkish authorities arrest suspected IS member planning New Year's attacks
2025-12-27
[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish authorities said Friday that they have apprehended a suspected member of the Death Eater Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group who was planning attacks on New Year's celebrations.

State-run Anadolu Agency reported that Ibrahim Burtakucin was captured in a joint operation carried out by police and the National Intelligence Agency in the southeastern city of Malatya.

Security officials told Anadolu that Burtakucin was in contact with many IS sympathizers in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
and abroad and was also looking for an opportunity to join the ongoing fighting in conflict zones.

Authorities also seized digital materials and banned publications belonging to IS during the raid of his home.

The arrest was reported a day after Istanbul's prosecutor's office said Ottoman Turkish authorities carried out simultaneous raids in which they detained over a hundred suspected members of the bully boy Islamic State group who were allegedly planning attacks against Christmas and New Year's celebrations.
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