38 years imprisonment for Al Qaida’s Turkish commander

An investigation was begun by Izmir Public Prosecutor Birol Çengil following an article appearing in Tempo magazine entitled, ‘Al-Qaeda in Turkey with 50 living bombs’. During the investigation, M.T., who was working as a lawyer in Izmir at the time of his arrest, had been also been responsible for 11 pro Al-Qaeda websites.

Through different portable phone numbers and email addresses M.T. declared himself the Turkish commander of the Al-Qaeda network and was a source of information on bomb and arms construction. Documentation showing his involvement in moving bombs around different parts of Turkey was seized during a raid into his home.