Turkiye intelligence captures Al Qaeda operative in Africa, in latest disclosed overseas operation

Turkish intelligence has captured an alleged Al Qaeda operative in Africa who had participated in attacks against Turkish forces, in the agency’s latest overseas operation against wanted individuals.

According to Turkish media outlets on Tuesday, Turkiye’s National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) returned Turkish national, Ahmet Baykara, to the country after he was captured in an unspecified African country, where MIT had tracked him to after he took shelter there.

Baykara reportedly participated in a number of attacks – and was behind at least one – on Turkish military outposts in the rebel-held province of Idlib in north-west Syria over the years, as well as an attack on a Turkish military convoy.

Following the MIT’s detection of his involvement in those activities, it had been surveilling him before he fled to Africa, where he was recently captured in an operation, the details of which have not yet been fully revealed.

Baykara reportedly confessed his role in attacks on the Turkish military, collaborating with Turkish authorities to disclose more attacks that he had planned, as well as his contacts within Al Qaeda.

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