By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A few months after he started attending meetings of a hardline Islamic community group in a poor Istanbul suburb, 25-year-old Murat Kipcak stopped reading the Koran and going to the mosque. Soon after, he sent word that he, his young child, and his wife had traveled to Iraq to join Islamic State, his father Tahir told Reuters at his home in Sultanbeyli, a district on the eastern outskirts of Turkey's largest city. Murat's story – a working class high school graduate turned radical Sunni militant within months – highlights Turkey's vulnerability as it tries to prevent Islamic State from carrying out further attacks like this week's at Istanbul airport.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/home-grown-radicals-weak-spot-turkeys-fight-against-161108267.html

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