Erdogan says senior IS member captured
STORY: Erdogan says senior IS member captured
DATELINE: Sept. 10, 2022
LENGTH: 00:00:38
LOCATION: Ankara
CATEGORY: POLITICS
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1. various of Turkish security forces
STORYLINE:
Turkish security forces captured one of the senior executives of the Islamic State (IS), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said late Thursday.
Turkish police and intelligence captured Bashar Hattab Ghazal al Sumaidai, code-named Abu Zeyd and Master Zeyd, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported.
"International reports and the UN Security Council report also contained information that this terrorist was one of the senior executives of the Daesh (IS) terrorist organization. During his interrogation, there are his statements that he was a so-called 'qadi' in the so-called ministry of education and the ministry of justice," Erdogan told reporters on the presidential plane on his way back from Croatia.
His connections in Syria and Istanbul had been followed for a long time, and intelligence information was obtained that he
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