‘The land of sleeper cells’: Why ISIS experts warn against travel to Turkey this summer
TEMPTING prices, sunshine beaches and alluring exchange rates will
see Britons booking in their thousands to travel to Turkey this summer –
something terror experts are claiming would be a MASSIVE mistake.
The majority Muslim nation has long attracted westerners to its
golden beaches and historic towns, but there are now serious concerns
tourists will become “primary targets” for ISIS in the country.
President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s soldiers are heading to Raqqa after liberating
the Syrian city of al-Bab, and for that, terrorists have vowed to strike
the neighbouring nation.
Multiple ISIS publications have sworn to fight back and attack Turkey, rejoicing in killing soldiers over the border in Syria.
A
new report, by a professor, and former Turkish police chief has found
travelling to the nation could well be walking into an ISIS trap.
Ahmet
Yayla Professor of Criminology and former counter-terrorism police
chief has consistently warned about attacks in his former home country.
The
report, The Reina nightclub attack and the Islamic State threat to
Turkey, claims there “may be as many as 2,000 hardcore fighters loyal to
the Islamic State inside Turkey”.
On New Year’s eve a rampaging
gunman carried out a bloody assault on the Reina nightclub leaving 39
dead and 71 injured, eight weeks after Islamic State leader Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi called for all-out war against Turkey.
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