{"id":12071,"date":"2025-06-03T01:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12071"},"modified":"2025-06-03T01:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:05:35","slug":"turkish-isis-leader-arrested-on-afghan-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/turkish-isis-leader-arrested-on-afghan-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish ISIS leader arrested on Afghan border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12072\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DAtr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a joint operation by Turkish and Pakistani security forces, Ozgur Altun, a senior commander of the ISIS terrorist group, was arrested on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and transferred to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to reports, Altun was a Turkish citizen and played a key role in organizing the passage of ISIS members from Europe and Central Asia to Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) announced that this prominent ISIS figure, alias &#8220;Abu Yasir Al-Turki&#8221;, was in charge of the group&#8217;s media department in Turkey and is known as one of the highest-ranking ISIS executives in the field of media and support.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He was on Turkey&#8217;s most wanted list with an orange alert.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Turkish media reported that Altun had previously ordered attacks on some public gatherings and concerts in Turkey and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a joint operation by Turkish and Pakistani security forces, Ozgur Altun, a senior commander of the ISIS terrorist group, was arrested on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and transferred to Turkey. According to reports, Altun was a Turkish citizen and played a key role in organizing the passage of ISIS members from Europe and Central Asia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12076,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions\/12076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}