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Mihrac Ural is wounded in a roadside bomb attack in #Syria's Lattakia province. Ural is one of the few leaders from Turkey's 1970s leftist revolutionary leaders still alive and active today. He has been working for Assad regime since the start of the civil war.pic.twitter.com/3JWywk2KIm
Ural is an ethnic Arab from Turkey's Hatay province. He went into exile in Syria following the 1980 military coup and collapse of the revolutionary left in Turkey. Just over 24 hours ago he condemned on Twitter the July 5, 1938, "illegal occupation of Hatay province by Turkey."pic.twitter.com/0AJgbQVbWK
Ural is an old time friend of PKK's founder Abdullah Ocalan and may have been instrumental in helping establish relations between PKK and the Assad regime. He is married to a relative of the Assad family.pic.twitter.com/mIv1h50l7n
Ural set up and led a militia in Lattakia province to help Assad regime from very early in the civil war. Turkey considered him especially dangerous because of his appeal among Turkey's Arab & Alevi population. He survived multiple assassination attempts & reports he was killed.pic.twitter.com/WWrxMUkF61
In late May, Ural claimed to have captured an MIT (Turkish Intelligence) team of Turks and Arabs sent to his office to assassinate him. He gloated about the arrest and interrogation of the alleged assassins on Twitter, tagging Turkish Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu.pic.twitter.com/YAfZFApZtX
Turkey held Ural responsible for the mysterious 2013 Reyhanli car-bomb in Hatay that killed 52 people. Yesterday's bomb in Reyhanli that killed 3 was also blamed on him. He rejected responsibility for both "terror attacks" & blamed "MIT+CIA+MOSSAD". Today, he was bombed&wounded.pic.twitter.com/Bx6MWWTp8I
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