Saturday, April 11, 2015

ISIS's Turkish Brothers

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ISIS's Turkish Brothers

by Burak Bekdil  •  April 11, 2015 at 5:00 am
The Turkish ISIS is an ideological inspiration by an Islamist poet, who happens to be President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's favorite.
"From now on, life in Turkey will be difficult for the occupying seculars." — Editorial, Taraf, August 1993
Is it still too hard to understand why Erdogan's "fight" against radical Islamists in Syria and Iran cannot be serious?
If a "mere" 11.3% of Turks think so generously of ISIS, it means there are nine million Turks sympathetic to jihadists. And if only 10% of those decide to support ISIS's jihad, that comes to nearly 900,000 potential Turkish jihadists (even 5% would mean an army of nearly 450,000).
Damage to the Istanbul offices of the magazine Adimlar, which was bombed on March 26. (Image source: CNNTurk video screenshot)
Most Turks had not heard of the magazine Adimlar ["Steps"] until March 26, when a bomb blast ripped through its Istanbul offices. A bomb left at its entrance exploded when the door opened, killing a writer and wounding three, including its editor-in-chief, Ali Osman Zor. The dead victim was his brother.
Last October, CNN interviewed Zor, who described himself as an "Islamic revolutionary" and a member of the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front, or IBDA-C in its Turkish acronym. He spent time in prison on charges of terrorist activity. In the interview, Zor said he supported the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), including its extreme violent practices, and argued that the radical group's violence was a natural response to what he claimed were decades of Western imperialism in the Middle East.

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