The arrested Turkish ISIS member had received training at a facility in Balochistan where foreign nationals are prepared to carry out attacks in Europe and other countries in the region.
Turkish intelligence services arrested a Turkish national identified as Mehmet Goren along the Durand Line between Afghanistan and Pakistan and transferred him to Turkey, Turkish media reported on Monday.
According to the reports, Goren, who operated under the alias Yahya, was trained at ISIS facilities in Pakistan and had pledged to carry out suicide attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, and several European countries. He also played a key role in transferring recruited individuals from Turkey to Pakistan. The reports add that Goren survived attacks targeting ISIS training camps in Pakistan and later attempted to go into hiding.
Al-Mirsaad has obtained additional information about Mehmet Goren from its sources that had not previously been published.
According to these sources, Goren was recruited into the ranks of ISIS by an individual known as Abu Omar al-Turki. He initially traveled from Turkey to Iran and later crossed from Iran into Pakistan’s Balochistan province, where he joined ISIS training centers and underwent nearly six months of training.
The sources said the training camp hosted militants from multiple countries. Alongside Turkish and Azerbaijani nationals, citizens of Tajikistan, Pakistan, and Iran were also undergoing training at the facility.
Al-Mirsaad sources added that the facility where Yahya was trained primarily focused on preparing foreign nationals to carry out attacks in European countries, Central Asia, and Iran. Some trainees, after completing their instruction, were sent back to their home countries.
The sources warned that foreign nationals trained at ISIS centers inside Pakistan, as well as those who returned to their countries after completing training, pose a serious security threat. As long as ISIS training centers remain active in the country, the threat is likely to continue expanding.