“Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said in April that Turkish intelligence forces had killed him in Syria.” If the Turks did, it was by accident. Erdogan has been protecting Al Qaeda since 2000.
The one constant of Levantine politics is its inconstancy. Now it pleases Erdogan to take credit for bumping off ISIS Khalif #4. So he’s doing so. Yesterday, he and el-Quraishi might have been toasting each other’s health over frothy glasses of camel p!ss. But that was then. This is now. Don’t ask me why.