Seven ISIS jihadis, 2 Turkish police killed in firefight in Diyabakir

According to security forces in Ankara, clashes erupted during police raids Monday at a dozen houses in the Kayapinar district of the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey. Two Turkish policemen were killed and four injured. Seven ISIS fighters were killed and three captured alive. Ankara has extended operations against ISIS cells after a double suicide bombing in Ankara that killed more than 100 people, the worst attack of its kind in Turkey's modern history. President Tayyip Erdogan accused the Kurds of collaborating with ISIS for that attack. 
 

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