“President Erdogan announced that a terrorist named Abu Zeid, who is among the top leaders of ISIS, has been caught in Turkey,” RIA Novosti quoted the statement as saying.
In 2021, the Turkish police, together with the country's special services, captured another of the leaders of the terrorist organization.
It is noted that the terrorist was one of the confidants of the leader of the ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in October 2019.
* "Islamic State" (ISIS, ISIL) - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.