{"id":61685,"date":"2018-09-13T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T07:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=61685"},"modified":"2018-09-13T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T07:43:22","slug":"turkey-nabs-key-suspect-of-2013-reyhanli-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-nabs-key-suspect-of-2013-reyhanli-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey nabs key suspect of 2013 Reyhanli attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yusuf Nazik brought to Turkey from Syria’s Latakia following operation by Turkish intelligence organization.<\/h2>\n

Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) said on Wednesday it has captured a key plotter of the 2013 Reyhanli attack from the Syrian port city of Latakia.<\/p>\n

According to information gathered by Anadolu Agency, the MIT brought Yusuf Nazik to Turkey with a “pinpoint operation” and began interrogation on the deadly attack that killed scores of people in southern Turkey.<\/p>\n

Nazik, 34, who was marked in the blue category of the Interior Ministry’s wanted terrorists list, confessed that on a tip off from Syrian intelligence units, he scouted the crime scene prior to the attack and moved explosives from Syria to Turkey.<\/p>\n

He added that he procured two vehicles to move the explosives.<\/p>\n

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Nazik, who was born in Antakya city in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, confessed that he was acting on orders from Syrian intelligence units, adding: “I was not able to escape from the Turkish state,” in video footage available with Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n

“I am calling out to my friends in Syria, turn back while there still is time. The Turkish state will protect us. I am calling out to the state of Syria, Turkish state will make you pay eventually,” he added.<\/p>\n

Nazik, during interrogation, reportedly gave out detailed information about Mihrac Ural — a terrorist responsible for the Reyhanli attack who is being sought by an Interpol red notice — and called out on other fugitive terrorists to surrender.<\/p>\n

Turkey blames Ural for a spate of attacks in May 2013 in the town of Reyhanli in Turkey\u2019s southern Hatay province that left 53 people dead.<\/p>\n

The May 2013 bombings in Reyhanli district of Hatay, near the Turkish border with Syria, left 53 people dead. A total of 912 buildings, 891 workplaces and 148 vehicles were heavily damaged in the attack.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 23, 2018, a Turkish court sentenced nine of the 33 suspects with aggravated life imprisonment and 13 others with jail time ranging from 10 to 15 years.<\/p>\n

Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul on Wednesday afternoon hailed the operation, said the state of Turkey will go after all culprits and terror organizations.<\/p>\n

“It was a successful operation. Our state will come after every kind of terrorist group and [Turkey’s] independent judiciary will give out fair sentences, wherever the culprit may be,” Gul told reporters during his visit to central Konya province.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yusuf Nazik brought to Turkey from Syria’s Latakia following operation by Turkish intelligence organization. Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) said on Wednesday it has captured a key plotter of the 2013 Reyhanli attack from the Syrian port city of Latakia. According to information gathered by Anadolu Agency, the MIT brought Yusuf Nazik to Turkey with …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,101,174,184,194],"tags":[78109,78108,45500,78107,9120,78106],"class_list":["post-61685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-politics","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-economy","category-turkey-general","tag-antakya","tag-latakia","tag-mit","tag-reyhanli-attack","tag-turkish","tag-yusuf-nazik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}