Turkey sends troops to fight ISIS

The other day, a “Syrian refugee” detonated himself in a crowd of tourists in Istanbul killing ten Germans and injuring several more, so Turkey got serious about their war against ISIS yesterday, according to Reuters;

“After the incident on Tuesday … close to 500 artillery and tank shells were fired on Daesh positions in Syria and Iraq,” [Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu] told a conference of Turkish ambassadors in the capital Ankara, using an Arabic name for Islamic State.

“Close to 200 Daesh members including so-called regional leaders were neutralized in the last 48 hours. After this, every threat directed at Turkey will be punished in kind.”

Davutoglu said the Turkish strikes had targeted Islamic State positions around Bashiqa in northern Iraq, where Ankara recently deployed a force protection unit to defend Turkish soldiers who are training an Iraqi militia in the fight against the Sunni radicals.

Cross-border strikes into Syria targeted an area around the rebel-held town of Marea, 20 km (12 miles) from the Turkish border and near the edge of a “safe zone” Turkey wants to establish in northern Syria to keep Islamic State at bay.

Of course, if Turkey had taken the war against ISIS seriously in the first place, those German tourists might still be alive.

The Associated Press reports that the Europeans are starting to be more picky about which “refugees” thay allow into their countries, Austria has turned away 3000 in the last few weeks;

[Austrian] Police spokesman Rainer Dionisio said Wednesday the development is due to more intensive controls at border points with Slovenia, from where about 3,000 migrants a day cross into Austria.

Those claiming to come from Syria, Iraq, and other flashpoints in the Middle East are questioned and translators check their accents to establish whether they are telling the truth. Those who aren’t are turned back, including Moroccans, Algerians and other nationals making false claims.

Meanwhile, Austrian police say Germany has returned about 200 migrants trying to transit from Austria over the past few weeks for lack of valid documents or because they were seeking asylum in other EU countries.

Category: Terror War