Turkey steps up action against Salafi networks
Turkish security forces in 2016 detained 2,936 people on charges of being violent Salafi jihadis. So far this year, the pace of security operations against Salafi networks is much faster.
On Feb. 5 and 6, in 29 cities including Ankara and Istanbul and especially in provinces close to the Syrian border, 820 people were detained on charges of being Islamic State (IS) militants or sympathizers. With this roundup, the number of accused extremist Salafists detained in the first 40 days of 2017 is now about 1,400 — almost half of the total detained in all of 2016. Among the detainees are many illegal Syrian, Central Asian and Uighur immigrants.
What's behind this unusual pace of Turkish security forces targeting violent Salafi networks in 2017, after they truncated local networks of Salafists made up of Turkish nationals in 2016?
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/02/turkey-steps-up-action-against-salafist-networks.html#ixzz4YFeyyZP4
Note that word, Salafi, Salafists, to me, most of the problem lies with them.
Iran has long had a proxy war against Israel; that is wrong but in the big picture, I'm not sure how evil Iran is. Experts?
