Court arrests ISIL ‘commander’ in central Turkey

ESKİŞEHİR

A court in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir has arrested an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) “commander” after police detained him as part of an anti-ISIL investigation carried out by Eskişehir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. 

The 41-year-old Iraqi man, identified only by the initials as C.E.T., was arrested on Aug. 26 after being apprehended in a police raid on a hotel in central Eskişehir. 

The militant was reportedly jailed in an Iraqi prison over plotting to assassinate then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki before escaping from prison with the help of the jihadist group. 

Four others caught over their links to C.E.T. were sent to a deportation center after their legal procedures at a police headquarters was completed.