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Turkey Foils New Year's Eve ISIS Suicide Plot
Back on July 20, a suicide bomber detonated in Suruc, Turkey, killing 33 people.
Suruc is a mere stone’s throw away from the Syrian border and from Kobani, where many of those killed were planning on assisting in a rebuilding effort.
The attack was quickly attributed to Islamic State. Two days later, two Turkish police officers were killed by the PKK in Ceylanpinar. Kurdish militants said the men had cooperated with ISIS. Their deaths, PKK’s Syrian affiliate said, were “in revenge for the massacre in Suruc.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used the death of the officers as an excuse to reignite a longstanding conflict with the PKK. In order to persuade NATO to sanction the crackdown, he cited Suruc on the way to explaining that in addition to the PKK, Ankara would target ISIS. There was widespread suspicion that the government was somehow involved in sparking the violence as a way of undercutting HDP’s success at the ballot box in June.
Less than three months later, a suicide attack in Ankara killed 102 people. It was the worst attack in Turkey’s history. It too was attributed to ISIS.
“Although intelligence reports have claimed that ISIL militants Abdurrahman Alagoz, Yunus Emre Alagoz and Omer Deniz Dundar were preparing suicide attacks, they were not captured,” Today’s Zaman wrote, earlier this month. “They entered Turkey from the Syrian border and masterminded the blasts that killed 135 people, 102 in Ankara and 33 in the Suruc district of Sanl?urfa.”
Why were they not captured, you ask? Well, that’s an open question. As TZ goes on to say, “Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says that even when [the government] has already uncovered the identities of potential suicide bombers, police cannot take action until suspects engage in an attack.”
Apparently, that policy has since changed because on Wednesday, Turkey arrested two suspects the government says are members of ISIS and were conspiring to carry out suicide attacks on New Year’s Eve in Ankara.
“Turkish police have arrested two suspects over an alleged suicide bomb plot to attack New Year's Eve revelers in the capital Ankara,” AA reports, adding that “the suspects - identified as M.C. and A.Y. - planned to attack the city’s main square, which is the scene of annual Dec. 31 celebrations.” Here’s a bit more:
Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s office said the suspects had targeted two locations near Kizilay, a shopping and restaurant district in the heart of the city, and were equipped with explosive vests packed with steel ball bearings.
Prosecutors said the arrests were carried out in Yakup Abdal, a neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Ankara, but gave no detail on the timing of the police operation.
The suspects are being held by counter-terrorist police.
Although AFP says "Turkish authorities have over the past months cracked down on the group's so-called "sleeper cells" throughout the country," those who follow the situation closely know that it's virtually impossible to say with any degree of certainty what the government's official stance on Islamic State is.
What we do know is that Ankara routinely funnels weapons and money to various opposition groups in Syria and is aligned with the Saudis and other regional Sunni benefactors when it comes to bolstering anti-Assad elements. We also know that Turkey has in the past been accused of turning a blind eye to the flow of foreign fighters entering Syria to join ISIS. More recently, we've seen reels of footage depicting what certainly look like oil tanker trucks speeding across the border into Turkey with impunity suggesting that Ankara is helping to faciliate the sale of illegal ISIS crude.
All of that raises questions about Wednesday's arrest and on that note, we'll simply close with the following quote from the Russian Defense Ministry which suggests that at the same time Ankara was busy arresting two alleged ISIS suicide bombers, the flow of ISIS oil into Turkey continues:
"A convoy of oil tanker trucks heading to the Syrian-Turkish border escorted by vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft weapons was uncovered during aerial reconnaissance in the Kafr Nabl area of Idlib province. Russian aviation deployed a Su-34 aircraft to strike this target."
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turkey is such a beatiful cuntry if you remove all people
I call BULLSHIT! Erdogan is trying to make himself look good with an ISIS false flag, pretending to protect the Turkish state when in fact he is a prime sponsor of ISIS.
You can always count on our criminal MSM media whores to faithfully repeat his lies.
depends on the question if ISIS is a tame dog of war or more of a fire that someone started and is now quite indiscriminately burning in all possible directions, though
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Biting the hand that feeds?
Maybe ISIS is pissed when they realized how much value their Toyotas lost once they drove 'em off the lot.
turkey cracking down on sleeper cells? Must mean Erdogan waking them up and telling them to get back to work
Cry me a River Turkey. Your own fault.
Ghordius
Is there any government you dont blow,you sicken me.
and how is that "blowing government"? ISIS sees itself as a Caliphate, i.e. a country. willing to gobble up the whole world, if possible, if you look up it's state propaganda
do you have proof that ISIS is fully tame? do you have proof that it's left hand does know what it's right hand promised? do you have proof that they have full control of all their terrorist cells?
particularly since they are called "cells" for an organizational reason that prevents full and immediate control? my goodness, some here adore simple
some crimes are similar to setting fire to a building and then stand back and watch what happens... and then exploit on them. you live in a "tightly controlled fantasy world", imho
I believe Ergodan claiming that Turkey was actually a target of ISIS as much as I believe al-Bagdadi when he claims ISIS is targeting Israel
That is to say, its all invented by the same Zionazi scriptwriters for the consumption by stupid people.
Its all mean to maintain the narrative and the carefully crafted veil of illusion spun by the Zionazi neocons and their UK and EU satraps.
Are Bagdad Bob and Ergodan the same person? Just asking.
No, Erdogan is Turkish Ted. However, as the 'e' in Ted is pronounced 'ur' in Turkish, he is known as Turkish Turd.
And only a few days after fellow NATO Member, Greece, chase his air force out of their country. Go figure. This Mental Midget may actually start WW III. I am not sure who the bigger idiot is, Erdogan or Obama.
@Latina Lover
At least he did not kill dozens or thousands to convince US, pun intended. /s
I even doubt that ISIS would pick its best ally Turkey to commit a ter. act. Especially on New Yaer's eve in a Muslim country. I guess they test our stupidity with these kind of "news" and thinking of new BS to sell to the public that lost elementary logic and sense.
Turkey has become a bitch any thing comes out of her mouth is a filth. Fuck you erdogan.
Erdogan found a few Kurdish hobos to frame up.
(social justice)
"Oh, the world is cathing up onto us and discovering we are supporting ISIS. Let's do some tiny resistance against them, and the rest of the world would never know we support them! Genius!
Yours sincerely,
The Stupid Turks"
The suspects are being held by counter-terrorist police.
Held? kill them and be done with it...then hang their bodies at the boarder for all to see.
let me guess... your nick there, it's ironic, isn't it?
Well I was going for the retarded Euro look but you took that already...
I love the acrid smell of discourse in the morning. Smells like .....
Freedoms.
One of them is the same secret police guy who tried to commit suiside by jumping of the bridge and erdogan sob saved him.
Headline:
Erdogan saves kitty cat stuck on utility pole.
Barehanded in the rain....
no, no, that was brian williams
That's as convincing as the headline, "Erdogan saves man from jumping off a bridge". It's not a joke.
Surely the bloke must have some idea how contrived and pathetic his lies must appear to anyone with over a couple of neurons rolling around in their head? I've searched the dictionary to find a word that matches the superlative of pathetic and failed, so when describing someone whose infantile lies are too crummy to believe, we'll say, "It's Erdoganic".
Remember this?
http://freebeacon.com/blog/7-years-ago-today-hillary-said-she-came-under...
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...unless suspects also as reporters employed.
Damn, have the turks took a page from our domestic 3 letter security agencies luring some naive zit faced boys into an entrapment scenario so they can loudly proclaim their agencies training, value and adeptness???
yes
One gets the feeling Erdogan will be swallowed by the shithole he has created.
Pray to spare the innocent from the shithole event horizon. Send the entire Deep Statists Shitheads into another Universe-Time-Continuum FUBAR by the gravity of their crimes. Saddle up my Unicorn .... I need a happy ride in the Colorado mountains this morning.
Will blow up a place occupied by those investigating his criminality.
I always preferred "homicide bomber" to suicide bomber. "Suicide" just focuses on the scumbag.
-Argenta
Yea right!! We know who you are, your actions speak clearly for anyone who is willing to listening.
More disinformation from Turkey....
ISIS or just anti-government anti-Erdogan 'rebels'?
So if ZH stories are true then ISIS is biting the hand that feeds them. Yeah, those ragheads will last a long time. Buh bye, morons.
Two down, how many hundred to go ?
"Gollum calls off strike against own people"
Exactly!
Fuck you Turkey and the people of Turkey are slaves... No internet if the govermnet decides to turn it off? Journalist in Jail for reporting real news? Midnight Express movie gives you a sneak preview of turkish law.. quote from Billy Hayes " In a Country were you are forbidden to eat pork you are nothing but PIGS.... True Story Midnight Express..
So was an ISIS plot foiled or a Turkish mission scrubbed? Perhaps both?
Turkey is Lying. ISIS training camps are all over Turkey.
I think that Turkey's support of ISIS through their military and money laundering training programs in cooperation with NATO and the CIA is going to come back to haunt them.To maintain the program of instability and chaos in the MiddleEast the CIA will need somewhere for their ISIS commanders and fighters to run to now.They will ose the battles in Iraq and Syria because of Russian and Iranian intervention to halt the Wolfowitz Doctrine and Plan.What better choice than Turkey for ISIS to hide and disrupt?Where else can they go?The CIA has their ISIS partners now in Libya and Afghanistan but they are not very strong in those locations and local tribal leaders are ready for them and aware now of how Obama is operating and they are knowledgeable about the American NeoCon Wolfowitz plan of bombing and political chaos to try to control oil and the political leaders.They're wise now to corruption in Washington.It's a little strange to be seeing Russia and Iran helping to defend elements within the Afghan Army and the Taliban as well against the U.S. strategy of bringing ISIS into Afghanistan.The Afghan Government forces have complained for a very long time that they cannot get the proper training or military equipment from the U.S. or NATO.This goes along with the continued failure of U.S. Foreign Policy directed by the Inner Government run by the X-Cheney NeoCons that control the black puppet.They control the State Department and elements within the Pentagon,but not completly.The way this CIA terrorism operates is to allow Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to run these religious schools teaching young children this violent Wahhabi philosophy deveoped by Saudi-CIA Intelligence Agencies.These children are brought up through indoctrination by brainwashing techniques and then trained in military techniques and money laundering which is used to destabilize countries the United States doesn't like but more importantly this system is used to protect the CIA's heroin trafficking networks which provide billions of dollars in funding for bribes and foreign operations.It's vey important for the NeoCons to keep the oildollars flowing for their military-industrial complex that most of the Washington politicians have shares in along with their shares in the privatized jail system in America that is used to make cheaper products to compete with China.
Lee Harvey Mohammed