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Turkey: ISIS Stopped with 150 Original European Passports

At the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Turkish authorities have stopped ISIS supporters with 150 false passports.

AFP reports: “Turkish authorities detained two suspected Islamic State militants (IS) at Istanbul’s main international airport carrying at least 150 original European passports, an official said Thursday.  Counter-terror police detained the suspects, a Syrian and a Turk, at Ataturk Airport after they flew in from a European country, finding they had stuffed the passports into pizza ovens, media reports said earlier. ‘Airport police… found at least 150 fake passports among their personal belongings,’ a Turkish government official, who asked not to be named, told AFP.  The private Dogan news agency said the police seized a total of 148 European passports hidden inside ‘five mini-pizza ovens’. The suspects have been taken to the anti-terror headquarters of Istanbul police for questioning, it added.  Two hidden cameras, scores of memory cards and SIM cards were also seized, it added. Dogan had said that the passports were all original.”