An Islamic State terrorist plot to blow the consulates of Sweden and the Netherlands in Istanbul and attack places of worship, including synagogues, was thwarted by Turkish security forces.
Turkish media reports that police broke up a group of 15 ISIS terrorists who were preparing to launch assaults in retaliation for burning a Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm on January 21.
Rasmus Paludan, a Danish-Swedish politician and leader of the Danish political group Stram Kurs (“Straight Course” or “Hard Line”), was in charge of the demonstration. Days later, in Copenhagen, outside the Turkish consulate and next to a mosque, he burnt copies of the Koran.
The information that resulted in the arrests in Turkey revealed that the cell may have gotten guidance from the South and Central Asian-based Islamic State-Khorasan Province.
American citizens were recently alerted by the U.S. embassy in Turkey of potential “imminent retaliatory attacks” in the nation “against churches, synagogues, and diplomatic missions in Istanbul or other places Westerners frequent, especially in the [city’s] Beyoglu, Galata, Taksim, and Istiklal areas” that could target Westerners.
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