Multiple sources claim ( Ali Kayali ) known as Mihrac Ural (Leader of Syrian Resistance) got killed by rebels in Latakia. Ahrar has taken responsibility for his death.
Mavi Boncuk |
The Syrian Resistance (Al Muqāwamat al-Sūriyah, Arabic: المقاومة السورية), formerly known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Liwa of Iskandarun (Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير لواء اســكندرون), is a pro-government Syrian armed group operating in Northwest Syria, claiming a Marxist–Leninist ideology.
The movement[1] is led by Mihraç Ural, a Turkish Alawite who has Syrian citizenship. According to Today's Zaman, Ural was the leader of a clandestine insurgent cell in Hatay Province called the THKP-C (Turkish Peoples' Liberation Party-Front) Acilciler ("The Urgent Ones") [Officially non existent for 25-30 years}.It was further alleged that Ural's group has sought to agitate Hatay's sizable Alawite population into confrontation with the Turkish authorities and has also recruited local Alawites to fight in Syria on behalf of the government.
Though the group openly espouses a broadly-inclusive platform of Syrian nationalism in addition to secular leftism, it has been claimed that its primary focus is the defence of the Alawite and Twelver Shi’a religious minorities in the country.[3] The Syrian Resistance has been accused by the Syrian opposition of being a sectarian Alawite militia, and of having carried out bombings and attacks in Turkey and on villages in Syria.[7][8] However, Sheikh Muwaffaq al-Ghazal, a member of the Islamic Alawi Council, claims it has an inclusive national line regarding religion, race and gender.
See Article: THE RENEWED THREAT OF TERRORISM TO TURKEY | June 25, 2013 | Stephen Starr.
[1] The Marxist-Leninist DHKP/C also claimed responsibility for a gunfire attack against the US Consulate on August 10, 2015. The DHKP/C is said to have been behind terrorist attacks against government and Western targets in Turkey since 1994, including the suicide attack against the US Embassy in Ankara in February 2013. Another group that has emerged as a terrorist threat is the Urgent Ones (Acilciler), formed in 1975, “a splinter group from the Turkish People’s Liberation Party/Front (THKP/C)” led by Mihrac Ural, who became a primary suspect in the May 11, 2013, twin car bombings in the town of Reyhanli, Hatay Province (near the Syrian border) in which fifty-two people were killed. That attack was said to be “the deadliest terrorist attack in [Turkey’s] modern history,” and Ural is reportedly “now infamous for his alleged involvement in massacres in the Syrian towns of Bayda and Baniyas in May 2013,” carried out in support of the Syrian Assad regime. Another small leftist group, the People’s Defense Union (Halkların Savunması Birliği), claimed responsibility for bombings and gunfire attacks carried out in Istanbul against a police station and in Sirnak Province on August 10, 2015.
Mavi Boncuk |
The Syrian Resistance (Al Muqāwamat al-Sūriyah, Arabic: المقاومة السورية), formerly known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Liwa of Iskandarun (Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير لواء اســكندرون), is a pro-government Syrian armed group operating in Northwest Syria, claiming a Marxist–Leninist ideology.
The movement[1] is led by Mihraç Ural, a Turkish Alawite who has Syrian citizenship. According to Today's Zaman, Ural was the leader of a clandestine insurgent cell in Hatay Province called the THKP-C (Turkish Peoples' Liberation Party-Front) Acilciler ("The Urgent Ones") [Officially non existent for 25-30 years}.It was further alleged that Ural's group has sought to agitate Hatay's sizable Alawite population into confrontation with the Turkish authorities and has also recruited local Alawites to fight in Syria on behalf of the government.
Though the group openly espouses a broadly-inclusive platform of Syrian nationalism in addition to secular leftism, it has been claimed that its primary focus is the defence of the Alawite and Twelver Shi’a religious minorities in the country.[3] The Syrian Resistance has been accused by the Syrian opposition of being a sectarian Alawite militia, and of having carried out bombings and attacks in Turkey and on villages in Syria.[7][8] However, Sheikh Muwaffaq al-Ghazal, a member of the Islamic Alawi Council, claims it has an inclusive national line regarding religion, race and gender.
See Article: THE RENEWED THREAT OF TERRORISM TO TURKEY | June 25, 2013 | Stephen Starr.
[1] The Marxist-Leninist DHKP/C also claimed responsibility for a gunfire attack against the US Consulate on August 10, 2015. The DHKP/C is said to have been behind terrorist attacks against government and Western targets in Turkey since 1994, including the suicide attack against the US Embassy in Ankara in February 2013. Another group that has emerged as a terrorist threat is the Urgent Ones (Acilciler), formed in 1975, “a splinter group from the Turkish People’s Liberation Party/Front (THKP/C)” led by Mihrac Ural, who became a primary suspect in the May 11, 2013, twin car bombings in the town of Reyhanli, Hatay Province (near the Syrian border) in which fifty-two people were killed. That attack was said to be “the deadliest terrorist attack in [Turkey’s] modern history,” and Ural is reportedly “now infamous for his alleged involvement in massacres in the Syrian towns of Bayda and Baniyas in May 2013,” carried out in support of the Syrian Assad regime. Another small leftist group, the People’s Defense Union (Halkların Savunması Birliği), claimed responsibility for bombings and gunfire attacks carried out in Istanbul against a police station and in Sirnak Province on August 10, 2015.