Turkey kills the leader of the Islamic State in Syria

2023-05-01 09:07:10Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Turkey kills the leader of the Islamic State in Syria
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The leader of Daesh, Abu al-Qurayshi, was killed by Turkish forces during an operation in Syria. This is what the President of Turkey, Erdogan, said in a television interview.

"The National Intelligence Organization (MIT) had been following the so-called leader of Daesh, known as Abu Hussein al Qurayshi, for a long time," Erdogan said in a live interview on Turkish broadcaster TRT Turk on Sunday.

" This is the first time I am saying it here. This person was neutralized in an operation carried out by MIT yesterday" , he added.

IS announced on November 30 the death of its former leader, Abu Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurasi, without specifying how he died. According to an AFP correspondent in northern Syria, the Turkish intelligence service and a local armed group supported by Ankara on Saturday blockaded an area north of the Jadairis community in the Afrin district (in the northwest), about ten kilometers from the Syrian border- Turkish.

Turkey has deployed troops in various sectors of northern Syria since 2020, while controlling large areas through Syrian proxies of the Turkish military, organizations that have been involved in the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime since 2011.


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