A senior Daesh agent was detained during a joint Pakistan-Turkish operation near the Afghan border.
Ozgur Altun, a high-level Daesh terrorist sought in the orange category, was apprehended along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border as a result of a joint precise operation by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT).
Operating under the code name “Abu Yasir Al Turki,” Altun was a prominent Turkish media officer in Daesh’s so-called Khorasan structure. Security sources claim that Altun was responsible in arranging the transfer of Daesh members from Europe and Central Asia to the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
The effective cross-border intelligence operation resulted in the extradition of the terrorist who was caught to Turkey.
According to security sources, Altun has given orders to carry out strikes against concert venues in Europe and Turkey where large crowds of civilians congregate.
Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI, promised MIT that all required assistance would be given after learning of the Daesh terrorists operating in Afghanistan and preparing to enter Pakistan.
“Türkiye’s enemy is also Pakistan’s enemy,” Pakistani intelligence emphasized, highlighting the two nations’ close counterterrorism collaboration.
The precise operation that resulted in Altun’s capture at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and his subsequent repatriation to Turkey was carried out by MIT and ISI after this guarantee.
In addition to exposing the organization’s recruitment practices and successfully thwarting Daesh’s action plans against Türkiye, the operation also confiscated the terrorist group’s digital resources and attack blueprints.
