Turks abandoning beards due to Islamic State association
The grim rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has had at least one positive side for Turkish barbers, as hirsute men have begun to forego their fashionable long beards amid concern about being associated with the jihadi group, according to Manisa Chamber of Barbers and Hairdressers head Ali Batu. Locals […]
Raping Women Who Are Not Muslims Is Halal, Says Islamic State
Islamic State has made rape a central part of its religious doctrine with members told the Koran ‘condones and encourages’ attacking women if they are not Muslims, it was claimed today. The chilling development came as a 12-year-old Yazidi rape victim in Iraq told how her attacker insisted that what he was doing was not […]
Living In Turkey Today Means Experiencing A Creeping Sense Of Dread
The Suruc attack lit the fuse. The political earthquake that shook Turkey on June 7 had been little felt in the lives of every day Turks when a suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) bombing in the border town of Suruc on July 20, killed 33 young activists planning to deliver aid […]
Turkey Starts Working With ISIS Terrorist Group: USA Outraged
US President Barack Obama with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the NATO Summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales, on September 5. An American military source told Fox News that US military leaders were “outraged” when Turkey began launching airstrikes against the Kurdish PKK in northern Iraq just hours after striking a […]
Attackers open fire on U.S. consulate in Istanbul
Two women shot at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Monday and at least nine people were killed in a wave of separate attacks on Turkish security forces, weeks after Ankara launched a crackdown on Islamic State, Kurdish and far-left militants. The NATO member has been in a heightened state of alert since starting its […]
PKK leader Cemil Bayik says Turkey is protecting Islamic State by attacking Kurds
The man leading the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has accused Turkey of trying to protect the Islamic State group by attacking Kurdish fighters. Cemil Bayik told the BBC he believed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wanted IS to succeed to prevent Kurdish gains. Kurdish fighters – among them the PKK – have secured significant victories against […]
British Jihadis Being Recruited To Blow Up Planes As Tribute To Osama Bin Laden
Britons fighting for militant groups in Syria are being targeted to smuggle explosives on to Western airliners and become suicide bombers as Al Qaeda plan a spectacular attack over a major city, intelligence officials warn. The Pakistan-based, Iranian-backed Khorasan group linked to Al Qaeda is said to have sent members to ’embed’ with affiliated terror […]
Turkish couple feed 4,000 Syrian refugees on wedding day instead of wedding
Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu and Esra Polat tied the knot in Kilis province on the Syrian border, which is currently home to thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in the neighbouring country. It’s traditional for Turkish weddings to last between Tuesday to Thursday, culminating in a banquet on the last night, but this couple decided they wanted a […]
Turkey justifies airstrike killing of 10 civilians including a pregnant women
Turkey justified its air raid on a village in the Kurdistan Region in which 10 civilians were reportedly killed, claiming the village was home to senior members of its outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). “Hearing that many civilians were killed due to airstrikes, we were saddened, and we attempt to avoid civilian casualties in the […]
Shut up as a woman, Turkish Deputy PM Bülent Arınç tells female MP
Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has told a female deputy from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), who was responding to him during a speech in Parliament, to “shut up as a woman” in remarks that drew protest from women. “Lady, shut up,” Arınç told the HDP’s Nursel Aydoğan, who responded to the deputy prime minister […]
