ISISISIS “advanced plans” to attack Jewish children in Turkey thwarted
Isis has developed plans to carry out a terror attacks targeting Jewish children in Turkey, according to intelligence officials. Six operatives from the terror group, arrested in the Turkish city of Gaziantep last week, told Turkish investigators about an “imminent” attack against Jewish children. Istanbul’s synagogue in Beyoglu was one of the attacks. The synagogue operates a community center and a school.
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Isis has developed plans to carry out a terror attacks targeting Jewish children in Turkey, according to intelligence officials.
Sky News reports that six operatives from the terror group, arrested in the Turkish city of Gaziantep last week, told Turkish investigators about an “imminent” attack against Jewish children. Istanbul’s synagogue in Beyoglu was one of the attacks. The synagogue operates a community center and a school.
Intelligence sources told Sky News that Jewish kindergartens, schools, and youth centers were at the center of the plans. “This is a more than credible threat. This is an active plot,” said the intelligence source, adding the information gathered from the operatives indicated an imminent attack that could be “in the next 24 hours or next few days.”
Turkish authorities said that in response to the threat, broad security measures were being put in place, including “undercover” and “covert” round-the-clock counterterrorism measures.
Fox News reports that the latest threat comes after an ISIS-affiliated suicide bomber killed four tourists in a busy shopping area of Istanbul on 19 March. The bomber followed an Israeli tourist group as it left its hotel, but blew himself up to far from the group thus limiting the number of casualties
Two American-Israelis, another Israeli, and an Iranian were among the dead.
