Habib Akdaş was a Kurdish Turkish citizen born in Batman. He was trained in Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. He returned to Turkey and was named as emir of an Al Qaeda unit in Turkey which carried out the 2003 Istanbul bombings. Afterwards, he went to Iraq, and joined Al Qaeda in Iraq organization, and he was killed after an American air strike on his house.[1]

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  1. ^ Aksiyon, 20 February 2006, Azad Ekinci'yi Zarkavi'ye teslim ettim Archived 2014-04-16 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Steinberg, Guido, 1968- (2013). German jihad : on the internationalization of Islamist terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231500531. OCLC 847678696.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)