“Turkish Secret Services Kill Leader of Islamic State in Syria”

Recep Tayyip Erdogan explains that they had carried out prolonged monitoring, and that he will continue his fight against terrorist organizations

Istanbul. The president of TürkiyeRecep Tayyip Erdogan, announced this Sunday that the Turkish secret services, known by the acronym MIT, have killed the leader of the Islamic State (IS), Abu al Hussein al Hussein al Qurashi, in an operation in Syria.

“MIT has long tracked the so-called leader of the Islamic State, Abu Hussein al Qurashi. Yesterday, this person was neutralized in Syria,” Erdogan said during an interview on TRT public television.

“Our fight against terrorist organizations continues, without making distinctions. During our time, MIT has become an international fighting organization, reaching a level of talking to the US and Russian secret services,” the president said.

Erdogan did not provide further details about the operation or in which area of ​​Syria it had been carried out.

Abu al Hussein al Husseini al Qurashi, about whose identity practically nothing is known, succeeded last November 30 to Abu Hasan al Qurashi, who died in the south of Syria in an action in a territory controlled by the Syrian government.

Abu Hasan had replaced Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurashi in February 2022, who had become the successor of the first IS ‘caliph’, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, in 2019.