Now wait a minute. Didn’t their professor father explain to them about how the Islamic State was misunderstanding Islam? Didn’t he provide his sons with enough education and economic opportunity to enable them to stave off “radicalization”? Something has gone wrong! Marie Harf, call your office!
“Three sons of Turkish professor join ISIL,” by Fevzi Kızılkoyun, Hürriyet Daily News, March 20, 2015:
Three sons of an assistant professor at a Turkish university have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Hürriyet has learned.
The assistant professor, whom Hürriyet identifies only as M. Şefik İ. to avoid possible repercussions that may risk his safety, has appealed to the government for help, but security forces determined that his sons have already crossed to Syria.
According to the investigation, 19-year-old Hacettepe University student Süleyman Bengi İ. led his 16-year-old twin brothers, Dilar and Dilşat, in their venture to join ISIL. After crossing Turkey’s border with Syria, the three teenagers continued to Iraq to join the ranks of ISIL there, Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT) revealed.
“We have found peace here, don’t worry about us,” Süleyman Bengi İ. sent in a message to his family after they crossed the border.
The family, on the other hand, have called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, the MİT and the police to bring their sons back to Turkey.
‘Promised Heaven’
Turkish authorities continue diplomatic efforts to bring back the three brothers who are still in an ISIL-controlled area of Iraq. Meanwhile, police and intelligence officers are investigating whom Süleyman Bengi İ. contacted in Ankara to cross the border.
Before leaving his dorm in Ankara, Süleyman Bengi İ., a dentist candidate, left a note for his family, urging his mother to distribute the belongings he left behind to the poor.
Those who know him told Hürriyet he was a successful student who was radicalized after he started to visit Islamist bookstores. The change in his personality became more dramatic after he read a book titled “Promised Heaven,” which he also distributed to his friends.
A billboard poster prepared by the family says that Süleyman Bengi went missing in Ankara, while his brothers went missing in Diyarbakır, on March 10.
Dire situation in numbers
A Hürriyet investigation in September 2014 revealed a number of Islamic associations and bookstores which had popped up across Turkey had become one of the main recruiting tools of ISIL in the country.
Turkish intelligence recently sent a report to Turkey’s associations watchdog, determining that seven associations and foundations should be scrutinized for their suspicious activities.
So far 2,307 Turkish citizens have joined ISIL, according to official figures, with some 700 more linked to the group. Around 1,500 of them still live in the ISIL-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq and most of them are fighting in the ranks of the jihadists.
In 2014 and the first three months of 2015, 680 families in Turkey reported their children went missing to join ISIL.
Officials say 11 Turks have died so far while fighting for the group.
Joseph says
Their father should have renounced Islam, taught his sons accordingly and left Turkey if needed. NOW it is too late. Funny how people will support something and then regret it after it affects them personally.
This father knows EXACTLY what is going to happen to his children. They are not going to be going to heaven either.
Salah says
The ‘Promised Heaven’ is the carrot, the ‘Punishment of the Grave’ is the stick.
A carrot and a stick, that’s all you need to manipulate Muhammad’s gullible followers.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/08/torments-of-grave.html
LSWCHP says
If nothing else, one could view this as an existence proof that intelligence isn’t hereditary.
Xero_G says
Father should be proud…his offspring chooses Sharia law rather than man-made laws. Well done pappy.
boakai ngombu says
SHARIA law is not divine, although it is the product of the maleficent, belligerent Allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) which cannot bring to life that which is dead. it only can corrupt, despoil, disrupt, destroy, ruin
Lia Wissing says
Poor little miss Harf! the islamists keep proving her wrong. They may be doing it expressly to mock her.
particolor says
I think they are Victims of their diet ? Too much Halalemite on their toast !! 🙁
Baucent says
The West needs to wake up about Turkey. They are not friends of the West any more than Qatar is. Erdogan is hoping to come out the winner after the ISIS mess implodes, and annoyed someone else thought of calling himself Calif first.
Ayatrollah says
According to reports, their mother expressed joy and would not stop telling friends that her sons were interested in their relgion and became pious. She thought the books they were reading were to help them get into Al Ahzar university and had no idea they were involved in IS.