Ankara, May 1 (BNA): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday evening that Turkish forces had killed the leader of the Islamic State organization during an operation in Syria.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan told TRT Turk TV in an interview that the ISIS leader codenamed Abu Hussein al-Quraishi was killed in a raid on Saturday, the Associated Press reports.
Erdogan said that Turkey’s intelligence agency, MIT, had been following him “for a long time”.
“We will continue our struggle against terrorist organizations without discriminating against any of them,” Erdogan said in the interview.
There was no immediate confirmation from the ISIS group.
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