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If only everyone would prefer drinking or flirting with a girl instead of killing people for doing so.
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If only everyone would prefer drinking or flirting with a girl instead of killing people for doing so.
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To name a few:
Reyhanli bombing 2013, killing 52
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reyhanlı_bombings
Diyarbakir rally bombing 2015, 4 killed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Diyarbakır_rally_bombings
Suruc bombing, 2015, 33 killed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Suruç_bombing
Ankara bombing, 2015, killing 103
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Ankara_bombings
Dozens of rocket attacks around Kilis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIL_rocket_attacks_on_Turkey_(2016)
Ongoing operation in Syria: Euphrate Shield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_military_intervention_in_Syria
Thread for ES Operation: https://defence.pk/threads/operation-euphrates-shield-updates-discussions.445718/page-341
ISIS also claimed the New Years attack at club Reina in Istanbul killing 39
Will update this from time to time with updates regarding operations against ISIS within Turkey.
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Agreed.
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http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/re...rts-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=108033&NewsCatID=509
The Club-Reina attacker is probably of Central-Asian descent (Krgyz or Uzbek) and was probably experienced and received military training. Suspect is still at large.
The Club-Reina attacker is probably of Central-Asian descent (Krgyz or Uzbek) and was probably experienced and received military training. Suspect is still at large.
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http://aa.com.tr/en/turkey/victims-of-istanbul-terror-attack-identified/718436
01.01.2017
Thirty-eight victims of the Istanbul nightclub attack have been identified, Turkish justice ministry sources said late on Sunday.
At least 39 people, including a police officer, died after an attacker opened fire on partygoers at Reina nightclub in the city’s Ortakoy district in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Sixty-nine people were also hurt, with a number of foreigners among the dead and injured.
Eleven of the dead were Turkish nationals and one was a Turkish-Belgium dual-national, said ministry sources who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media.
Seven victims were from Saudi Arabia and had travelled to Istanbul to attend New Year’s celebrations.
Three of the dead were from Lebanon and Iraq each.
Two nationals from Tunisia, India, Morocco and Jordan also died, sources said.
Kuwait, Canada, Israel, Syria and Russia each lost one citizen in the attack.
One victim remains unidentified.
Turkish officials have not yet released the names of those identified.
*Reporting by Mehmet Tosun and Kemal Karadag; Writing by Ayse Humeyra Atilgan
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http://aa.com.tr/en/todays-headlines/police-carry-out-arrests-over-istanbul-nightclub-attack/718872
Police in Istanbul arrested eight suspects on Monday in connection with the nightclub attack that killed 39 people, a security official said.
The gun attack at the Reina club in the city’s Ortakoy district early Sunday left a further 69 wounded.
The suspects were arrested by anti-terror police from Istanbul, the official said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media.
The gunman, who was not among those arrested, killed a police officer and civilian outside the venue on the European shore of the Bosphorus before entering and opening fire on New Year’s Eve revelers.
At least 27 of the fatalities were foreigners and 11 were Turkish nationals. A further victim is yet to be identified, according to a Justice Ministry official.
Meanwhile, investigators released a fresh image on the attacker. The image from a security camera showed a slim young man wearing a dark jacket apparently standing at a shop counter.
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William Jacop Rakk speaks to press during being accompanied by hotel staff of which he was staying, to his plane back to U.S. on January 2, 2017 at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. William Jacop Rakk is an US citizen who was wounded during a terrorist attack at a nightclub in Ortakoy district of Besiktas in Istanbul. (Islam Yakut - Anadolu Agency)
At least 39 people, including a police officer and a number of foreigners, died after an attacker opened fire on party-goers at a nightclub in the city’s Ortakoy district in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Speaking to reporters at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport on Monday ahead of his flight to the U.S., William Jacob Rakk said he was with nine friends in the nightclub at the time of the attack.
He said he wants to visit Turkey again and wished a speedy recovery for those who injured in the attack.
Rakk also praised Turkey as a very beautiful country with good people.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/re...rts-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=108033&NewsCatID=509
“He probably fired these bullets before in real clash zones. He had no hesitation in shooting at innocent people. He is absolutely a killer and he most probably shot at humans before,” Ağar added.
Police have released the first footage of the Reina attacker, who killed 39 people and wounded 65 others, with initial police reports suggesting he may be from Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan. Officials are also investigating the possibility that the attacker may be from Xinjiang in eastern China and aged around 25, according to a report in daily Habertürk.
01.01.2017
Thirty-eight victims of the Istanbul nightclub attack have been identified, Turkish justice ministry sources said late on Sunday.
At least 39 people, including a police officer, died after an attacker opened fire on partygoers at Reina nightclub in the city’s Ortakoy district in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Sixty-nine people were also hurt, with a number of foreigners among the dead and injured.
Eleven of the dead were Turkish nationals and one was a Turkish-Belgium dual-national, said ministry sources who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media.
Seven victims were from Saudi Arabia and had travelled to Istanbul to attend New Year’s celebrations.
Three of the dead were from Lebanon and Iraq each.
Two nationals from Tunisia, India, Morocco and Jordan also died, sources said.
Kuwait, Canada, Israel, Syria and Russia each lost one citizen in the attack.
One victim remains unidentified.
Turkish officials have not yet released the names of those identified.
*Reporting by Mehmet Tosun and Kemal Karadag; Writing by Ayse Humeyra Atilgan
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http://aa.com.tr/en/todays-headlines/police-carry-out-arrests-over-istanbul-nightclub-attack/718872
Police in Istanbul arrested eight suspects on Monday in connection with the nightclub attack that killed 39 people, a security official said.
The gun attack at the Reina club in the city’s Ortakoy district early Sunday left a further 69 wounded.
The suspects were arrested by anti-terror police from Istanbul, the official said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media.
The gunman, who was not among those arrested, killed a police officer and civilian outside the venue on the European shore of the Bosphorus before entering and opening fire on New Year’s Eve revelers.
At least 27 of the fatalities were foreigners and 11 were Turkish nationals. A further victim is yet to be identified, according to a Justice Ministry official.
Meanwhile, investigators released a fresh image on the attacker. The image from a security camera showed a slim young man wearing a dark jacket apparently standing at a shop counter.
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William Jacop Rakk speaks to press during being accompanied by hotel staff of which he was staying, to his plane back to U.S. on January 2, 2017 at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. William Jacop Rakk is an US citizen who was wounded during a terrorist attack at a nightclub in Ortakoy district of Besiktas in Istanbul. (Islam Yakut - Anadolu Agency)
At least 39 people, including a police officer and a number of foreigners, died after an attacker opened fire on party-goers at a nightclub in the city’s Ortakoy district in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Speaking to reporters at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport on Monday ahead of his flight to the U.S., William Jacob Rakk said he was with nine friends in the nightclub at the time of the attack.
He said he wants to visit Turkey again and wished a speedy recovery for those who injured in the attack.
Rakk also praised Turkey as a very beautiful country with good people.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/re...rts-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=108033&NewsCatID=509
“He probably fired these bullets before in real clash zones. He had no hesitation in shooting at innocent people. He is absolutely a killer and he most probably shot at humans before,” Ağar added.
Police have released the first footage of the Reina attacker, who killed 39 people and wounded 65 others, with initial police reports suggesting he may be from Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan. Officials are also investigating the possibility that the attacker may be from Xinjiang in eastern China and aged around 25, according to a report in daily Habertürk.
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The destabilization of Turkey over the last couple of years is very unfortunate, but certainly not unexpected. I predicted it way back in 2013 and 2014 (on another forum).
Unfortunately, the Arab Spring led to this whole mess.
Turkey should have never listened to the United States and gone against the Syrian government. It should have distanced itself from the Syrian conflict and remained neutral. I strongly believe that had the CHP been in power in 2011, then Turkey would've never gone against al-Assad. The CHP would've had a non-interventionist foreign policy and would've supported the secular government in Syria, even if it meant disappointing the Americans and their Gulf Arab allies.
The problem began when Erdogan decided to support radical Islamic militant groups in Syria with the help of his regional and international partners. He assumed that they would quickly take over the country and that he would be hailed as a hero in the Arab and Muslim World. He was basically trying to stroke his own ego. What Erdogan and his government failed to realize was that Syria would end up fragmenting along ethnic and sectarian lines and that this kind of fragmentation would lead to the rise of the Syrian Kurds. Erdogan never thought that the Kurds would one day take over a large chunk of northern Syria and end up posing a significant threat to Turkey's territorial integrity. He also never anticipated that his radical Islamic allies in Syria would one day morph into a nasty and brutal militant group in the form of the Islamic State. After all, let's not forget that most of the ISIS fighters in Syria are former FSA fighters.
I actually think Turkey today should accept Kurdish statehood in northern Syria and Iraq and use it as a buffer against the increasingly unstable Arab World.
Turkey's obsession with the Kurds is holding it back from reaching its true potential. It must make peace with the Syrian Kurds and accept an independent Kurdish state (i.e. Kurdistan) in northern Iraq and northern Syria. Kurdistan can serve as an excellent buffer state between Turkey and the Arab World. Contrary to what many Turks think, a Kurdish state to their south will actually make their country much safer and less vulnerable to Islamic terrorist attacks.
Turkey must make sure it doesn't get bogged down in Syria. The longer Turkish troops remain in Syria, the more likely they'll get bogged down and the easier it will be for ISIS to target them.
In a way, one could make the argument that the ISIS leadership has deliberately succeeded in dragging Turkey into the Syrian conflict. For ISIS, this is a huge political achievement because it will allow ISIS to gain sympathy from the Sunni Arab masses. That's exactly what ISIS wants. ISIS wants to show the Sunni Arabs that they have no friends in the world and that even Turkey has betrayed them and their cause. It wants to show the Sunni Arabs that Turkey has betrayed the anti-Assad Syrians and joined forces with Russia and Assad for the sake of crushing the Kurds. It wants to show the Sunni Arabs that Turkey doesn't care about them and that it's only looking after its own interests. By doing so, ISIS will try to convince the Sunni Arab masses that it's the only polity/force out there that cares about them, and that the entire world is against them.
This is ISIS's long-term strategy in a nutshell. Like I said countless times in the Euphrates Shield thread, ISIS doesn't care about losing territory anymore. It has already conceded that it cannot keep hold of its territories in the face of a multi fronted war. It has decided to eventually go into hiding until it can reemerge at a later date. Its primary strategy is to carry out suicide attacks against its enemies until they collapse due to exhaustion, after which ISIS would reemerge and recapture its lost territories. In the meantime, it'll rely mostly on propaganda in order to gain the sympathy of the Sunni Arab masses and convince them that ISIS is their only hope.
Turkey must have an effective counterinsurgency doctrine to win against ISIS in the long term. Capturing towns and villages from ISIS is not enough; everyone can do that, including the Jordanian-backed New Syrian Army in southeastern Syria. It's not that hard to capture territory from ISIS. The hard part is suppressing the ISIS insurgency. This requires extensive counterinsurgency measures, as well as social and political reforms. Turkey must fight against extremism. It must promote secularization and modernization in the region. This is the only way the Middle East can get rid of Salafism once and for all.
Unfortunately, the Arab Spring led to this whole mess.
Turkey should have never listened to the United States and gone against the Syrian government. It should have distanced itself from the Syrian conflict and remained neutral. I strongly believe that had the CHP been in power in 2011, then Turkey would've never gone against al-Assad. The CHP would've had a non-interventionist foreign policy and would've supported the secular government in Syria, even if it meant disappointing the Americans and their Gulf Arab allies.
The problem began when Erdogan decided to support radical Islamic militant groups in Syria with the help of his regional and international partners. He assumed that they would quickly take over the country and that he would be hailed as a hero in the Arab and Muslim World. He was basically trying to stroke his own ego. What Erdogan and his government failed to realize was that Syria would end up fragmenting along ethnic and sectarian lines and that this kind of fragmentation would lead to the rise of the Syrian Kurds. Erdogan never thought that the Kurds would one day take over a large chunk of northern Syria and end up posing a significant threat to Turkey's territorial integrity. He also never anticipated that his radical Islamic allies in Syria would one day morph into a nasty and brutal militant group in the form of the Islamic State. After all, let's not forget that most of the ISIS fighters in Syria are former FSA fighters.
I actually think Turkey today should accept Kurdish statehood in northern Syria and Iraq and use it as a buffer against the increasingly unstable Arab World.
Turkey's obsession with the Kurds is holding it back from reaching its true potential. It must make peace with the Syrian Kurds and accept an independent Kurdish state (i.e. Kurdistan) in northern Iraq and northern Syria. Kurdistan can serve as an excellent buffer state between Turkey and the Arab World. Contrary to what many Turks think, a Kurdish state to their south will actually make their country much safer and less vulnerable to Islamic terrorist attacks.
Turkey must make sure it doesn't get bogged down in Syria. The longer Turkish troops remain in Syria, the more likely they'll get bogged down and the easier it will be for ISIS to target them.
In a way, one could make the argument that the ISIS leadership has deliberately succeeded in dragging Turkey into the Syrian conflict. For ISIS, this is a huge political achievement because it will allow ISIS to gain sympathy from the Sunni Arab masses. That's exactly what ISIS wants. ISIS wants to show the Sunni Arabs that they have no friends in the world and that even Turkey has betrayed them and their cause. It wants to show the Sunni Arabs that Turkey has betrayed the anti-Assad Syrians and joined forces with Russia and Assad for the sake of crushing the Kurds. It wants to show the Sunni Arabs that Turkey doesn't care about them and that it's only looking after its own interests. By doing so, ISIS will try to convince the Sunni Arab masses that it's the only polity/force out there that cares about them, and that the entire world is against them.
This is ISIS's long-term strategy in a nutshell. Like I said countless times in the Euphrates Shield thread, ISIS doesn't care about losing territory anymore. It has already conceded that it cannot keep hold of its territories in the face of a multi fronted war. It has decided to eventually go into hiding until it can reemerge at a later date. Its primary strategy is to carry out suicide attacks against its enemies until they collapse due to exhaustion, after which ISIS would reemerge and recapture its lost territories. In the meantime, it'll rely mostly on propaganda in order to gain the sympathy of the Sunni Arab masses and convince them that ISIS is their only hope.
Turkey must have an effective counterinsurgency doctrine to win against ISIS in the long term. Capturing towns and villages from ISIS is not enough; everyone can do that, including the Jordanian-backed New Syrian Army in southeastern Syria. It's not that hard to capture territory from ISIS. The hard part is suppressing the ISIS insurgency. This requires extensive counterinsurgency measures, as well as social and political reforms. Turkey must fight against extremism. It must promote secularization and modernization in the region. This is the only way the Middle East can get rid of Salafism once and for all.
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Turkey became the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) top target in the world in 2016, according to casualty figures from attacks staged by the jihadist group.
Some 124 people were killed and 419 were injured in attacks only in Istanbul and Gaziantep in the southeast last year, according to TR Diplomacy, an unofficial social media account that is known for publishing data in support of the Turkish government’s international public diplomacy efforts.
This roughly matched with the official data, as 59 people were killed in an ISIL attack in Gaziantep targeting an outdoor wedding ceremony on Aug. 20, and at least 47 people were killed in a triple suicide bombing and gun attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on June 29.
Three Israelis and one Iranian were also killed and dozens were injured in a suicide bombing on Istanbul’s central İstiklal Avenue on March 19.
Eleven German tourists were killed and another 16 people were wounded in a suicide attack by a Syrian bomber in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet district, the ancient tourist heart of the city.
At least 275 people were killed and thousands wounded in major bomb attacks across Turkey staged by ISIL or the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) over the course of 2016.
The figures do not include the 39 victims of the Reina nightclub attack in Istanbul, which occurred in the first hours of the new year.
Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition against ISIL and launched an incursion into Syria in August to drive terror groups from its borders. It also helped broker the recent fragile cease-fire in Syria with Russia.
One month ago, a spokesman for ISIL urged supporters to target “the secular, apostate Turkish government.”
January/02/2017
This is what you get when you cause divide between your people,idiotic government policies,blunder after blunder,the terrorists be it ISIS or PKK can ''roam'' freely in my country,why should people care anymore,what could be a reason to do so?
I wouldnt be surprized if the attacker turns out to be an Ughur.
Even Somalia is safer then my country
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None of these are true, those fake passport BS has been debunked already, the passports in the picture that has been posted here were old passports that werent issued since years already.
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Don't get disappoint...Your country is quite strong...Pakistanis and Azeris are with you....
We faced similar situation. Now we have have reduced it...U can do it as well and I m sure u will do it...
We are evolving as a nation...Hard times will past...In Sha Allah.
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How the policies of the govt are the reason for all this ?
What should have been done instead of what has been done ?
What should have been done instead of what has been done ?
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Yes we can with this government but...............only in our dreams.
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Islamic State claims Istanbul attack, gunman remains at large
Stay strong Turkish brothers.
Stay strong Turkish brothers.
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Are you serious? Obviously goverment failed to establish the security of its citizen and even made policies doing the opposite.
The real tragedy of muslims in general is always to blame someone else instead of doing some self critisizm.
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