Mihrac Ural

Mihraç Ural, also known as Ali Kayyali (Arabic:علي كيالي), is a Turkish-Syrian Alawite militant who leads the pro-Syrian government group the Syrian Resistance (formerly known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Sanjak of Iskandarun).

History

Ural was born in 1956 in Hatay Province, Turkey. He studied philosophy at Istanbul University.

Ural was detained on 10 March 1978 over a bank robbery and was imprisoned at Adana where he escaped through a 150m tunnel in August 1980. After his escape from prison, he fled to Syria where he was granted Syrian citizenship by Jamil al-Assad. He ran a splinter faction of the People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey.

In 1982 he was arrested in Stuttgart in Germany and spent time in prison. Since 1986 he has led the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Sanjak of Iskandarun, now known as the Syrian Resistance. He was detained at the Fleury-Mérogis Prison in France in 1988.

In March 2016 the Syrian rebel group Ahrar al-Sham wrongly claimed to have killed him.[1]

He was accused of the May 2013 Bayda and Baniyas massacres, for which he gained the epithet "Butcher of Baniyas" by a Turkish newspaper, and the Reyhanlı bombings.[2]

In February 2018, Ural attended a conference in Sochi, Russia. Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said "We want this person’s immediate detention and extradition to Turkey". [3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Death of Mihrac Ural not yet confirmed: militia, regime". Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  2. ↑ "Mihraç Ural, a man with a long history of terrorism: Full Profile". Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  3. ↑ "Turkey asks Russia to extradite terrorist Mihrac Ural". Aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  4. ↑ "Turkey asks Russia to extradite 'key suspect in 2013 Hatay bombings' Mihraç Ural". Hurriyetdailynews.com. 2018-02-01. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
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