ISLAMIC STATE Turkey

ISLAMIC STATE RECRUITING IN INSTANBUL (CONSTANTINOPLE)…….

 

Post-Ataturk Turkey is no longer a secular republic, it stopped being one the moment Mustafa Kemal breathed his last breath.

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(Special thanks to Andy Bostom for digging this up)  

Uriel Heyd: “The religious axiom of the superiority of Islam and the centuries-old tradition of Muslim domination over unbelievers, had created an attitude that did not easily lend itself to change. The transformation of the Ottoman empire, spearhead of Islam, into a secular state where non-Muslims were granted complete equality was inconceivable.”

Soon after his death, Turkey began a long and steady process of re-Islamization, if there is any angst between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Islamic State, it rests solely on the question of who will control the burgeoning caliphate. So it’s my contention that Turkey is more than happy to send weapons flowing into the Islamic State, destroying its traditional enemies, and waiting for the moment it can assume full ownership of the caliphate.

In June, Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper reported that as many as 3,000 Turks have joined the group. “No other Nato country is as exposed to the threat of Isis jihadism as Turkey is,” says Sinan Ulgen, a former diplomat and head of Edam, an Istanbul-based foreign policy think tank. In the past, Western diplomats have accused Turkey of indirectly facilitating the flow of arms and foreign fighters to Isis by operating an open border policy with Syria in its eagerness to help the rebels seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad.

Exclusive: ISIS Starts Recruiting in Istanbul’s Vulnerable Suburbs

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When Deniz Sahin’s ex-husband phoned out of the blue to say he wanted to see their two young children, the call came as a welcome surprise. The father, a former alcoholic, who had kicked his addiction and turned instead to fundamentalist Islam, had shown little interest in his children for the past year, but she thought they missed him.

“I told him not to be more than two hours,” says 28-year-old Deniz, who weeps silently as she pores over photographs of Halil Ibrahim, 4, and Esma Sena, 10. After their father, Sadik, picked them up from their home in Kazan, near Turkey’s capital Ankara, in April, she never saw them again.

In one of the pictures, which were sent by Sadik a week after their disappearance, a smiling Halil Ibrahim clutches a pistol. The index finger of his other hand is held skyward in a gesture associated with the Middle East’s most feared armed group: the so-called Islamic State, also known by its former acronym Isis. The children now live with their jihadist father in Syria’s Isis-controlled Raqqa province. They are among an unknown number of Turks – potentially in the thousands – being abducted or lured into Syria and Iraq either to populate Isis’ self-declared caliphate or to fight in its bloody sectarian war.

More here. H/T: Fjordman

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