Posted on 10/14/2014 4:58:11 AM PDT by blam
RAPHAEL SATTER AND ISIL SARIYUCE
October 14, 2014
Istanbul University student Aysegul Korkut is outraged by the images coming out of Syria. But these days the Islamic State group's horrors seem closer to home: She recently faced off against masked supporters of the brutal militants on her own campus.
"I couldn't understand what was happening at first," the 21-year-old said of the moment she first spotted baton-wielding youths striding across the Department of Literature, shouting: "Allahu Akbar!" Within minutes, she and other leftist students had been sucked into a fight, with both sides hurling glass bottles at each other and trashing a science fair set up in the main hall.
"I was shocked," she said.
The Sept. 26 clash, described Korkut and a half a dozen other university students, was the first in a series of fights at Istanbul University's Beyazit campus. There has been repeated violence since, and Turkish media have reported scores of arrests. On Monday alone 42 students were detained when police broke up a fight in a courtyard adjoining the department, the state-run Anadolou Agency reported. Several sticks — and a meat cleaver — were recovered from the scene.
Police and university officials did not return messages seeking comment.
The fights are one of many signs of support for the Islamic State which have popped up across Istanbul, a cosmopolitan metropolis better known to tourists for its vibrant nightlife and Ottoman-era glories.
Islamic State group pins and stickers are on display at an Islamic bookstore where books about Islam, militant Islamic leaders and Islamic flags are displayed in the Fatih district of Istanbul.
Pins bearing the militants' black-and-white flag are on sale at a jihad-themed bookstore just a few blocks from the Istanbul University campus.
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Turkey is becoming more Islamicized....
Ataturk would not be happy.
It would be a mistake to put too much confidence in a Turkish ‘commitment’ to oppose ISIS
Makes a person wonder how long it will be before the western world will be heading for another Crusade perhaps the last and final one? We have been fighting it in some form or another for centuries in some form or another, how many more times do we have to, before humans wise up and reject it. I have absolutely nothing against the religious component of (i)slam but everything against the peripheral and contrived nuisance what comes along with it.
As far as religions are concerned I am not going to endorse them, but will tolerate any as long as they promote tolerance, and better understanding between humans. But I certainly draw a line when any one of them becomes radical, violent and becomes a threat to freedom of mind and body. And (i)slam it certainly has all the ingredients of it.
I am one who believes that ISIS wants to set up a worldwide caliphate. I think the leader of Turkey fancies himself as the grand poobah of this parade...the days of a secular Turkey are coming to and end. The days of Turkey being a reliable ally are coming to an end. In the end the world as we know it may be coming to an end because this will ultimately lead to the government of the anti-christ and the final battle of all.
Freegards
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Turkey was never a truly reliable ally except in the mind of the media.
Erdogan is not an Islamist, just an aspiring Putin.
The followers of Mad Mo do not want women educated; they want all books banned [ Boko Haram ].
Turkey has, is, and will support [ with weapons, money, training.. ] the Islamic State as ISIL’s next goal is Levant.
ISIS is a Turkish creation....we should kick them out of NATO now.
Of course he’s an Islamist.
I don’t agree. His rhetoric is a play for the votes of ignorant peasants.
He wants to be a Sultan, not a Caliph.
The religious component of islam is to force non believers to convert or kill them, enslave their women and take their stuff.
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