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Before being apprehended in Istanbul, the terrorist, Abdulmalik A., who was purportedly a member of the ISIS terror group, was organizing multiple terror attacks.The man reportedly received orders from an ISIS official to attack Jewish schools and synagogues in Turkey and overseas.Turkish news reported Thursday that the Istanbul Police Department’s Counter-Terrorism Branch had detained an Uzbek national who was preparing terrorist attacks against synagogues and Jewish schools in Turkey and overseas
According to a Hurriyet report, the man was intercepted by security and intelligence units after they infiltrated the messaging and e-mail networks of terrorist suspects and “deciphered the coded correspondence and encrypted dialogues to follow A.’s trail.”
The report added that the man was in Turkey legally.
No previous record of terrorist activities
Additionally, the man was allegedly chosen by ISIS because he “had no criminal record related to terrorist activities” and was, therefore, able to enter Turkey from a European country.
According to Turkish reports citing police, A. was given orders by an ISIS official to carry out the attacks on synagogues and Jewish schools in Turkey and abroad.
