A Turkish militant from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has called for the "conquest” of Istanbul, slamming President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for helping Western "crusaders,” the "atheists” of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), as well as the Free Syrian Army (FSA) "secularists.”
In the undated video shared on pro-ISIL social media accounts on Aug. 17, an unnamed militant is seen speaking fluent Turkish with sporadic recitation of Arabic prayers and Quranic verses, Hurriyet Daily reports.
While relating how Turks had accepted Islam centuries ago, he complains that "some of us started to worship tombs” as a photo showing Erdoğan visiting an Islamic shrine is displayed on screen.
"Then the secularist Kemal Atatürk came... He forced Turkish people to deny their religion, as well as [imposed] secularism,” the militant says.
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