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Azerbaijani Abdulla Abdullayev was found out to be one of the key ‘Islamic State’ figures in the territory of Turkey, the Turkish media report, according to the Azerbaijani news portal Haqqin.az.

According to the reports, Abdullayev created an entrepot in Turkey for the militants from Europe and Central Asia to transfer them to Iraq and Syria afterwards. The Azerbaijani hired dozens of flats in Turkey to provide the future IS militants with temporary housing.
As a result of the Turkish law enforcements agencies’ special operation, 36 people were detained. They all had some sort of connection with Abdulla Abdullayev. The Turkish Police’s special operation against the ‘Islamic State’ militants was code-named ‘Abdullayev,’ according to the report.

For years, the Azerbaijani terrorists have long been fighting in the ranks of various terrorist groupings that operate in Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. There are frequent media reports about the liquidation of the Azerbaijani terrorists.

The relationship between international terrorist groups and Azerbaijan originated in the early 1990s. That time, the Azerbaijani army, having failed in the aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), retreated with losses. Trying to save the situation, the Azerbaijani leadership, headed by Heydar Aliyev attracted to the war against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh international terrorists and members of radical groups from Afghanistan (groupings of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar), Turkey ("Grey Wolves", etc.), Chechnya (groupings Basayev and Raduyev etc.) and some other regions.

Despite the involvement of thousands of foreign mercenaries and terrorists in the Azerbaijani army during the war, the Azerbaijani aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic failed, and the Baku authorities were forced to sign an armistice with the NKR and Armenia. However, international terrorists found ties in Azerbaijan, and used them in the future. Recruitment was conducted among Azerbaijanis, who then were sent to Afghanistan and the North Caucasus, where participated in the battles against the forces of the international coalition and Russian organizations. In recent years, the citizens of Azerbaijan are actively involved in terrorist and extremist activities in Russia, Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.

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