Turkey has stopped more than 36,500 terror suspects heading to join the IS group in Syria, Interior Minister Efkan Ala has said.
Ala told the Anadolu Agency that most of the suspects had been stopped from entering Turkey at the border but that almost 2,800 people from 89 countries had been arrested and later deported.
Turkey has stopped more than 36,500 terror suspects heading to join the IS group in Syria, Interior Minister Efkan Ala has said.
Ala told the Anadolu Agency that most of the suspects had been stopped from entering Turkey at the border but that almost 2,800 people from 89 countries had been arrested and later deported.
Putin says that "Moscow and Riyadh have different approaches to settling the Syrian conflict in a number of areas but there are overlaps."
"For the war on terror, we have to unite all our forces, the alliance created by Saudi Arabia must act in the common interest," Putin said of the coalition against terrorism announced by Riyadh this week.
Putin has commented on the new counter-terrorism coalition announced by Saudi Arabia earlier this week.
Putin said that he did not think that the coalition would have an "anti-Russian character."
More than a month after the slaying of two Syrian activists in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa, the media collective that the two men -- Ibrahim Abdelqader and his friend Fares Hamadi belonged to -- which secretly documents life in the IS stronghold of Raqqa -- has been forced into deep hiding, AP reports.
IS claimed responsibility for the murders of the two activists from the Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently group in a video message.
The group won the 2015 Committee to Protect Journalists' International Press Freedom Award last month.
But their members are at risk -- even those in Turkey.
The remaining members of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently -- roughly 30 people, mostly based in Syria -- are taking extraordinary precautions. Those in Turkey have changed residences and avoid encounters with contacts that have not been thoroughly vetted.
Most lack passports or the documents needed to get out of the country.
[The Committee to Protect Journalists] says it has been working to help activists and family members relocate, but Abdelqader says more can be done.
"We are being killed. We are being threatened on a daily basis by IS," he said. "What is strange to us is that no one has showed any concern -- not even the organizations that protect journalists. No state has offered us protection or offered to help protect my family. No one has given us a helping hand."
Turkey's Daily Sabah has tweeted a video of an attack by IS militants on the Bashiqa camp in northern Iraq yesterday where Turkish forces are stationed. Four Turkish soldiers were injured in the attack.
RIA Novosti is reporting that according to a Russian Foreign Ministry source, Jordan has sent Moscow a list of 160 organizations to be considered for inclusion in a list of terror groups during a meeting of world powers in New York about Syria tomorrow.
Russia said last month that participants in talks in Vienna on Syria had agreed that Jordan would coordinate efforts to compile a common list of terrorist groups in Syria.
Maria Zakharova, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, has commented on Facebook about Putin's remarks this morning about Russia's military base in Syria.
Zakharova seems to think that the Americans will have difficulty in translating a Russian phrase that Putin used -- "это бабушка надвое сказала," which translates literally as "granny said ambiguously" but which means "it's anyone's guess" or "we'll just have to wait and see."
"It's interesting how the Pentagon are right now translating and analyzing Putin's words about whether a military base in Syria is needed or not -- that's anyone's guess," Zakharova wrote.
"I feel sorry for those guys, [I hope] it won't overpower them. Well, only if they start looking for a grandmother!"