In Turkey, after an attack on a police lock several European jihadists in custody. According to information is among them a German, who had obviously the terrorist group Isis connected in Syria.

A German Islamist has been arrested in Turkey after a deadly attack on a police roadblock late last week. According to information  is at the suspects to the German nationals Benjamin X., to classify the German authorities already longer than Islamist instigator.

Against the man since the fall of 2013 determined the Berlin public prosecutor due to the possible preparation of terrorist offenses under section 89 of the Criminal Code.
The Turkish authorities believe that the attack on the police roadblock in the southern Anatolian province of Nigde, which is only about an hour away from the Syrian border, Islamist was motivated.

In Germany the authorities examine evidence, according to which Benjamin X. joined in the last months of the al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group Isis, the fighting in Syria against the government forces of dictator Bashar al-Assad, but also against moderate rebel groups.

The shooting in Turkey, in which three people, including two policemen, were killed, occurred on 20 March. According to Turkish media was fed in a vehicle with several men at the police roadblock. The occupants immediately opened fire on the policemen.

The German Islamist sat in the attack, apparently at the wheel. In a first interrogation he denied involvement in the fatal shooting from first. In addition, he had been in the attack on drugs and therefore notice little from the action.

Turkey Islamist Terror:”Good Dead” against the enemy

The other men out of the car , however, boasted at a first court date in Turkey with the murder . “I ‘m not accountable to anyone but Allah. I make no testimony. Ye are all the nations ,” quoted the Turkish ” Hürriyet ” a man out of the car in which it should therefore be a Swiss from Macedonia. He is said to have spoken before a judge of a ” good deed ” against the enemy. Benjamin X. however, said he had only driven the car when his companion suddenly opened fire on the policemen.

The German authorities are after the incident in close contact with their Turkish colleagues . From a German perspective X. apparently belongs to a group of German Islamists who have joined radical groups in Syria in recent months to fight there against the government troops. According to Turkish media, the men were in a taxi in the border region with Syria go. Therefore we suspect that they just came out of the crisis area . The border is guarded by Turkey , but applies to cross as easily .

Security officials estimate that about 300 Islamists from Germany traveled towards Syria and there joined the radical groups. About a dozen of them fighting in the civil war there – usually in rows of Isis. More than 20 German have been killed, according to estimates by the intelligence so far in fighting. The German authorities are particularly concerned because of people returning from the fight to Germany and radicalized in the Federal Republic could be planning attacks.

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