Potential German soccer star joins list of players-turned-jihadists
Burak Karan on You Tuble
By James M. Dorsey
When Burak Karan, an up and coming German-Turkish soccer star, was killed last month during a Syrian military raid on anti-Bashar al Assad rebels near the Turkish border, he joined a list of football players turned militants who were in the Middle East and North Africa or had roots in the region or in Islam.
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