Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced his countrys security forces have killed a suspected key leader of Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
The leader has been identified as Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi.
Erdogan told broadcaster TRT Turk the IS leader was neutralised in a Turkish MIT intelligence agency operation on Saturday, reports BBC.
The ISIS terror group did not comment on the issue so far.
The MIT intelligence agency had been following Qurayshi for a long time, Erdogan was quoted as saying by BBC.
We will continue our struggle with terrorist organisations without any discrimination, he added, providing no further details.
