Pak Sahafat – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday night that one of the leaders of the ISIS terrorist group has been trapped in his country.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency from Turkish media, Erdogan identified this person as “Ali Bashar Khattab Ghazal Al-Samidai”, who is known as Abu Zeid or Master Zaid in ISIS and is considered one of the most important leaders of this terrorist group who was arrested in Turkey.
There is no information about how Al-Samidai was arrested.
ErdoÄŸan said these words while returning from a three-day trip to the Balkan region, which began on Tuesday, among the journalists present on the plane.
The President of Turkey stated: The General Directorate of Security and the Istanbul Police, in cooperation with the National Intelligence and Security Organization of Turkey “MET”, carried out an important operation against the ISIS terrorist group.
Erdogan said: Al-Samidai is one of the most important leaders of ISIS after al-Baghdadi and Badullah Qardash.
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He added: The report of the United Nations Security Council also states that he was one of the majors of this terrorist group.
Pointing out that the connections of this terrorist in Syria and Istanbul have been followed for a long time, Erdogan said: The security forces of our country obtained information about his illegal entry into Turkey.
He clarified: following the successful operation of the security forces and the police, this terrorist was arrested in Istanbul. This ISIS terrorist has used fake identification documents.
In the end, the President of Turkey said that this ISIS terrorist was transferred to the relevant judicial authorities after the completion of the interrogations of the National Intelligence Organization and the Police Department.
Also, on Wednesday, the Ministry of Interior of Turkey announced the arrest of 5 ISIS leaders before carrying out a terrorist attack in this country.
These five leaders include “Ramu Muhammad al-Hamid” with the organizational name “Ramu Ramu”, the so-called head of judicial affairs of the ISIS terrorist group who was released from Al-Kaf al-Hasaka prison, Ibrahim al-Saleh “Abu Rasool” the so-called head of intelligence, Hossam Dawood “Abu Ayyub”. The so-called head of consensus media, Ahmad Al-Halou “Abu Abdul Rahman Al-Shami” the so-called head of education, Kami Aidan “Abu Rashid” the so-called Imam of ISIS were identified and arrested while entering from Jarabulus border.