Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Sunday that Turkish secret services have eliminated the leader of the Islamic State (IS), Abu al-Husein al-Huseini al-Qurashi, in an operation in Syria.
“The alleged head of Daesh, whose code name was Abu Hussein al-Qurachi, was neutralized in an operation carried out yesterday by MIT (Turkish secret services) in Syria,” the Turkish head of state declared in a television interview.
“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 distinction. 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 was killed in southern Syria in an action in 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.
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