Monitoring Desk
ANKARA: Turkey has asked Moscow to extradite Mihrac Ural, a terrorist responsible for deadly attacks five years ago who was seen among participants at the Syria congress in Sochi, Russia.
“We immediately reacted to this terrorist’s participation there and demanded an explanation from Russia,” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters on Thursday.
“We want this person’s immediate detention and extradition to Turkey.”
He said Ural is being sought by an Interpol red notice. During a phone conversation on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced “discomfort” to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about the terrorist’s presence in Sochi, as he was not included on the list of invited delegates given to Turkey, said Cavusoglu.
Turkey had repeatedly insisted that while all sectors of Syrian society would be represented there, no terrorists or terrorist groups would be allowed. “Actually, the name of this terrorist was not on the list that Russia gave us. If it had been, we would have objected beforehand,” said Cavusoglu. He said Ural entered Russia with “fake documents.”
