Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson for Hamas s military wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, has gained prominence in the office of Hamas-aligned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and among radical Islamist groups in Turkey. In these circles Abu
Yakup Erdal, a 41-year-old Turkish jihadist killed in Lebanon on November 21 by an Israeli drone strike, was groomed by a high-ranking operative with longstanding ties to Iranian intelligence, according to confidential documents obtained by Nordic
On November 22, 2023, Hamas announced that four of its operatives were killed in southern Lebanon in an Israeli airstrike. Notably, two of the operatives were Turkish nationals: Yakup Erdal and Seyfullah Bilal Öztürk, while the other two were Lebanese: Ahmad Oudh and Khaled Minawi.