Wiretaps reveal jihadist dedication of suspects

Recordings from police wiretaps of a senior militant known to have been linked with both al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) revealed his and his contacts' dedication to jihad.

Mustafa Dokumac?, who was allegedly involved in bomb attacks in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r and the district of Suruç earlier this year, as well as the Oct. 10 Ankara Massacre, has been under wiretap surveillance within the framework of an investigation into al-Qaeda since September 2013.

Dokumac? was accused of handling recruiting activities for a militant camp called the "Dokumac?s" in Ad?yaman, which was later revealed to have links to ISIL.

The suicide bombers in the Oct. 10 attack, which killed at least 102 people, were identified as Yunus Emre Alagöz and Ömer Deniz Dündar, both of whom were members of the "Dokumac?" group.

A wiretap from Nov. 4, 2013, demonstrates how Dokumac? explained that they were fighting in Syria. Noting that they killed 45 people from the other side, Dokumac? says "Thank God," in this wiretap. The wiretap reveals that Dokumac? was in the Syrian town of Tal Abyad on the Turkish border and was accompanied by his spouse as well as by militants who came from Ad?yaman.

During the same conversation on Nov. 4, 2013, Dokumac? said their group was "badly outflanked down by a crescent tactic." "There were martyrs, but not from us, from [among] Arabs and East Turkestan," he said.

A wiretap from one day earlier reveals that Dokumac? sent a night vision device and a bag full of bullets to his contacts, a group of three.

The province of Ad?yaman has become notorious in Turkey as a site of radicalism among poor youths. Last year, the Ad?yaman Chief Public Prosecutor's Office filed...