Daesh ‘emir’ joins PKK ranks to fight against Turkish forces in Afrin

Daesh’s former ‘emir of Aleppo’ Abdullah Sufuni was deployed to Afrin by the U.S.-PKK alliance. Arriving in Afrin with 60 Daesh terrorists before Operation Olive Branch, Abdullah Sufuni joined PKK ranks and he is now in command of more than 240 Daesh terrorists, who will fight against the TAF and FSA.

He had fought against the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Syria’s al-Bab during Operation Euphrates Shield before moving to Manbij to join the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist organization.

Operation Olive Branch was initiated on Jan. 20 in Afrin to establish security and stability, eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terrorists, and save locals from their oppression and cruelty.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. The PKK has been conducting armed violence in the southeastern part of Turkey since 1984. More than 40,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the three-decade long conflict.

Abdullah Sufuni, who appeared in PKK camouflage in Ayn al-Arab in 2017, shared through his social media account that he “joined PKK ranks to take revenge for Turkey’s Euphrates Shield operation.” Assisted by a former Daesh terrorist Ali Şeyh, Sufuni is known to be in charge of another group composed of terrorists who joined from Tunisia, Iraq, Algeria and Libya.

In the wide-ranging Euphrates Shield Operation launched in August 2016, Turkey and the FSA had cleared 2,000 square kilometers (772 square miles) of land along the Turkish-Syrian border of Daesh terrorist elements.

Former Daesh terrorists in Ayn Issa, Ayn al-Arab, Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, who had joined the U.S.-PKK alliance, had arrived in Afrin for reconnaissance activities in November and December 2017. Scouting certain positions on the Turkish border, they made plans to sabotage the activities of the TAF which had been building observation points in Idlib. Claims state that the same group bombed the Turkish military convoy deployed to Idlib for the establishment of an observation point in the village of Lys on Jan. 30.

Syrian opposition forces had liberated Aleppo of Daesh elements in January 2014, during which Daesh terrorists massacred 70 Syrians, most of whom were journalists and activists. Abdullah Sufuni is known to be the top figure behind the massacre.