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ISIL’s ‘widow service’ caught in Turkey
ISIL’s ‘widow service’ caught in Turkey
Turkish police have detained seven suspects from three countries accused of resettling the widows of killed ISIL members in Turkey. Click through for the story in photos...
Anti-terror units raided houses in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri on Oct. 11, detaining suspects linked to a militant codenamed “Abu Jafaar,” who was ISIL’s “logistics and migration head” in Turkey.
Five Syrians, two Russians and one Egyptian, including three women, were sent to court with charges of being members a terrorist organization as well as forging documents.
According to a police source, documents seized at the suspects’ houses showed that one of the detained Russian citizens, identified as Rashid Enikeev, was coordinating ISIL members through an encrypted phone application.
The source added that Enikeev’s responsibility in the group included resettling women in Turkey after their militant husbands were killed while fighting for the jihadist group in Syria.
The raids came a day after the third anniversary of a deadly ISIL bombing that killed 103 civilians outside the main train station of the Turkish capital Ankara.
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