FETÖ terrorist infiltrates Daesh, rises as senior leader

Gülen's notorious terror group, which attempted to label Turkey as a state sponsor of terrorism with a fraudulent secret service probe, actually intended to cooperate with the two terror groups' orchestrated attacks in Turkey: the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Daesh terror network.

According to an intelligence, members of Fetullah Gülen Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), students and teachers at Gülen-inspired schools in northern Iraq, have infiltrated the Daesh terror network; particularly one of its brigades in Havija. One of them is Uğur Pehlivanoğlu; a terrorist who clocked as teacher in the Gülen-inspired school in Suleymaniyah in northern Iraq.

Terrorist Uğur Pehlivanoğlu, a teacher at the Gülen-inspired school in Suleymaniyah in northern Iraq, travelled to Havija town via Kirkuk province along with his six students, who were also Fetullah Gülen Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) members, by the order of the then senior FETÖ leader in Iraq, cloaked as an Imam.

In line with a mandate given him, Pehlivanoğlu and his associates have joined the ranks of the Havija-based Salahuddin Ayyubi Brigade, a militant group affiliated with Daesh. He has come to the fore among his Kurdish fellows, battling for Daesh, only in a few months. He has been known as Abu Walid among his comrades.

Meanwhile, Pehlivanoğlu has kept in close contact with FETÖ's key supporters, mostly businessmen, in Turkey's Gaziantep province, as the Gülen-led terror group's branch in Iraq has been usually funded by Gülen's loyalists in this city. In this era, Pehlivanoğlu has continued keeping in touch with Gülen's key supporters in Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah provinces in Iraq's north.

Turkey has been appalled by a string of suicide bombings in 2015 and 2016 in the era during which FETÖ has risen to prominence in Daesh. One bombing left a police officer dead in Istanbul's historic heart on January 6, 2015; a massacre killed 34 people in Suruç town on July 20; a suicide bombing claimed the lives of 103 people in an Ankara peace rally on Oct. 10; and twin explosions killed almost 100 outside the capital's main train station. All of these have been recorded as terror strikes, orchestrated by Daesh.

Pehlivanoğlu, who joined Daesh in late 2014, had risen to the rank of senior terrorist leader in Daesh within a year; however, he was killed in a fierce clash with Shia militia in Havija together with his three militants, Renes, Zana and Enes, in late 2015.

The infamous cooperation is not limited with this. Daesh has established such a close relations with FETÖ that Abu Muslim, a Daesh leader in Mosul, has enrolled his son to a Gülen-led school in that province.

It had been claimed that Daesh doesn't target Gülen's school in Mosul as a result of an a meeting between a Daesh member and Hamdi Serin, a FETÖ leader in Mosul, despite its major raid on Turkey's consulate in Mosul.

The FETÖ-linked school in Mosul has been strangely closed by an order said to have been sent from the States, known as the mastermind of FETÖ operations in Turkey and the Mideast. It is believed that Washington is unsatisfied in that era with the rising claims over the FETÖ-Daesh relations.

A total of 49 hostages were captured when Daesh seized the Turkish consulate in Mosul in June 2014. They were later freed and returned to Turkey. Daesh still has control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria.