ANKARA, Nov 23 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey arrested, and is now interrogating Ebu Cihad al-Din al-Nasir Ubeyde, a senior Daesh member, codenamed Yusuf Huda, who is behind attacks in 20 countries, the Turkish Interior Minister, said.
“We have captured a very senior Daesh member, who is known as a bomber, bomb-maker, and trainer for bomb attacks,” said Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, in an interview published in daily Hurriyet, on Friday.
“He is the one who contacts the suicide bombers. He masterminded the attacks in Russia, in 2018, and a shopping centre in Germany’s Hamburg,” he added.
“He has trained Daesh members all over the world on face-to-face military training, bomb vehicle preparation, suicide bomb preparation, and poison assassination, and was recruiting and training would-be suicide bombers,” Soylu said.
The Turkish security forces conducted 1,288 operations against the Daesh, in the first 10 months of 2019, and detained more than 3,500 Turkish nationals and 2,600 foreign nationals, he said.
Turkey sends captured foreign Daesh members back to their original countries. As of Nov 11, more than 15 foreign suspects have been sent back to their countries.
“Turkey is not a hotel for Daesh fighters,” Soylu said, and criticised European countries for their reluctance to take back citizens captured by Turkish authorities.
Among the deported or being deported Daesh suspects were German, Danish, British, American, Dutch, French and Irish citizens, according to local media reports.– NNN-ANADOLU