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Hostage tale suggests IS wary of upsetting Turkey

BERZA SIMSEKRAPHAEL SATTER · September 30, 2014 1:14 pm

Car salesman Sahin Aktan shows photos of his ex-wife Asiya Ummi Abdullah as he
speaks during an interview at his lawyer's office in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. The 44-year-old is the ex-husband of Asiya Ummi Abdullah, a 24-year-old Muslim convert who took their child to the territory controlled by Islamic State. Her experience illustrates the puritanical pull of the Islamic State group, the self-styled caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria that has sent shockwaves around the world with its bloodthirsty campaign. It also shows how, even in Turkey _ one of the most modern and prosperous of the Muslim countries _ entire families are dropping everything to find salvation in what one academic describes as a âfalse heaven.â (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turks leave for “family-friendly” IS group

BERZA SIMSEKRAPHAEL SATTER · September 24, 2014 8:27 pm

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