Turkish police have identified four ISIS members as the killers of two young anti-ISIS activists.
Istanbul, Turkey:
Turkish police have identified four ISIS members as the killers of two young anti-ISIS activists found beheaded in October in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, local media said Tuesday.
The main suspect was Talas El Surur, a Syrian who befriended the pair by claiming he had fled the jihadist group, the Dogan news agency said.
Ibrahim Abdul Qader, 20, and his friend Fares Hamadi were found beheaded at a friend's house on October 30.
They were members of this morning of the "Raqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently" (RBSS) group. They were originally from Raqa, the ISIS stronghold fiefdom.
Dogan said the chief suspect and two accomplices had fled to Syria after the killing while a fourth had escaped to Germany.
It also put out a video of the four men who were caught on a surveillance camera.
Sanliurfa is 55 kilometres (35 miles) from Turkey's border with Syria's Raqa province.
Turkey has long been accused by Syrian opposition activists, Kurdish fighters and sometimes even Western partners of allowing ISIS members to slip back and forth across its 900-kilometre (560-mile) frontier with Syria.
The RBBS, which was formed in April 2014 not long after ISIS seized control of Raqa from other opposition groups, regularly publishes information, photos and videos about ISIS decrees and behaviour in Raqa, from a ban on private Internet connections to a decision to begin issuing identity cards.
Turkey has recently beefed up security along its border and stepped up raids on jihadist cells within its territory after a series of attacks claimed by the ISIS, including deadly bombings in Ankara and Istanbul.
The main suspect was Talas El Surur, a Syrian who befriended the pair by claiming he had fled the jihadist group, the Dogan news agency said.
Ibrahim Abdul Qader, 20, and his friend Fares Hamadi were found beheaded at a friend's house on October 30.
They were members of this morning of the "Raqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently" (RBSS) group. They were originally from Raqa, the ISIS stronghold fiefdom.
Dogan said the chief suspect and two accomplices had fled to Syria after the killing while a fourth had escaped to Germany.
It also put out a video of the four men who were caught on a surveillance camera.
Sanliurfa is 55 kilometres (35 miles) from Turkey's border with Syria's Raqa province.
Turkey has long been accused by Syrian opposition activists, Kurdish fighters and sometimes even Western partners of allowing ISIS members to slip back and forth across its 900-kilometre (560-mile) frontier with Syria.
The RBBS, which was formed in April 2014 not long after ISIS seized control of Raqa from other opposition groups, regularly publishes information, photos and videos about ISIS decrees and behaviour in Raqa, from a ban on private Internet connections to a decision to begin issuing identity cards.
Turkey has recently beefed up security along its border and stepped up raids on jihadist cells within its territory after a series of attacks claimed by the ISIS, including deadly bombings in Ankara and Istanbul.
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