Recep Tayyip Erdogan told TRT Turk television in an interview that the IS leader, code-named Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, was killed in a strike conducted on Saturday.
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint live broadcast of Turkish TV channels in Ankara, Turkey on April 30, 2023.“We will continue our struggle against terrorist organizations without discriminating against any of them,” Erdogan said in the interview.
Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi was named leader of the militant group after its previous chief was killed in October, with an IS spokesman calling him “one of the veteran warriors and one of the loyal sons of the Islamic State.” Islamic State founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hunted down by U.S. forces in a raid in northwest Syria in October 2019.Turkey has conducted numerous operations against IS and Kurdish groups along the Syrian border, capturing or killing suspected militants.He was followed by Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who according to the U.S. military was killed in mid-October in an operation by Syrian rebels in Syria’s southern province of Daraa.
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