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Turkey hands over Daesh leader to France

September 27, 2017 at 9:56 pm

Daesh leader Jonathan Jeffery was handed to French authorities on 11 September 2017.

Turkey has handed over Daesh leader in Syria, Jonathan Geffrey, to France, the Anadolu Agency reported today, quoting a senior Turkish security official.

Geffrey, whose alias is Abu Ibrahim Al-Faransi, was arrested by the Free Syrian Army earlier this year in Aleppo’s northern province of Al-Bab. The area had been liberated during Turkey’s “Operation Euphrates Shield”, according to the Turkish source.

On 11 September, the Turkish government handed over 35-year-old Geffrey and his Tunisian wife and two children to the French authorities, the source added.

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Turkey launched “Operation Euphrates Shield” in August last year and it lasted seven months. The campaign saw Ankara send troops, tanks and warplanes to support Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters, push Daesh fighters away from its border and stop the advance of Kurdish militia fighters.