Location: The southeastern Turkish town of Urfa - where Abu Issa was kidnapped - is approximately 50 miles from the Syrian border. His kidnapping was only aborted when a third-party smuggler helping the militants bailed on the plan when he saw Turkish soldiers close to the Syrian border crossing near Kobane Islamic State militants have shot and wounded a senior Syrian rebel commander inside Turkey, it has been claimed, raising yet more questions of Ankara's commitment to defeating the terror group. Abu Issa, the leader of a group fighting ISIS in the besieged city of Kobane, and his 20-year-old son Ammar, were ambushed by jihadists in the southeastern Turkish town of Urfa on Friday afternoon. The pair - who had been attending a meeting with Turkish officials - were snatched from their car in an apparent kidnapping attempt, after the driver of their car allegedly simply switched off the engine when confronted by four heavily armed ISIS militants at a roadblock. After being seized they were driven at high speed towards the Syrian border and only managed to escape when one of the third-party smugglers ISIS uses to transport people and weapons into Syria bailed on the plan after spotting Turkish soldiers. A matching account of the kidnapping was reportedly given to the newspaper by another military commander in the group, Abo Ayham. He claimed that Abu Issa's driver - who was also his most trusted advisor - had been in on the plot, driving the rebel leader into a quiet back road where the extremist were waiting, refusing to turn the vehicle around when ordered to do so, and turning off the car's engine rather than trying to escape. The news raises yet more questions about Turkey's commitment to the international fight against ISIS, after Ankara drew a great deal of international criticism for refusing to intervene to help Kurdish fighters battling militants just 200 yards over the border in Kobane. There are also serious questions over why Turkey has allowed thousands of Western jihadists - who enter the country on budget airlines in tourist resorts - to easily pass over the border into Syria to join ISIS fighters there. Turkey has long argued that ISIS does not have a presence in the country. Others claim small cells are able to operate in southern Turkish towns, easily popping over the border to fight in Syria before returning home to Turkey. There are even claims from those on the ground that wounded ISIS militants are routinely smuggled from the frontline to receive treatment in Turkish hospitals, which are better equipped and less-stretched than those in northern Syria. Turkey has also been accused of allowing up to 3,000 detained Western jihadists to rejoin the Islamic State in Syria in return for the release 49 diplomats who had been held prisoner by the terrorists. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2799805/now-isis-operating-inside-turkey-militants-fail-attempt-kidnap-syrian-rebel-leader-city-20-miles-border.html#ixzz3GfhRrQze
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Now ISIS is operating INSIDE Turkey: Militants fail in attempt to kidnap Syrian rebel leader
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