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ISIS - Wilayat Turkey has released a video entitled, "And the Best Outcome Is for the Righteous." This is the 8th entry into an ongoing cross-provincial series and the first media release ever from the province. Thread below. ↓pic.twitter.com/5gSBVYbz3U
The announcement of Wilayat Turkey, unlike the recent entrance of ISIS in Azerbaijan and Iran, was heralded well before this in the first appearance of al-Baghdadi on film in 5 years. In that video, al-Baghdadi reads a booklet of documents labeled "Wilayat Turkey".pic.twitter.com/WsiNu2aePQ
Despite the ISIS branch in Turkey being a wilayat, supposedly having a more complex leadership system than lesser branches, the setting here is no more sophisticated than others. Hand-painted flag, white non-descript room, though it does look like they're armed to the teeth.pic.twitter.com/AUqi7nB0jG
The main speaker in this video if Abu Qatada at-Turki. Despite the kunya, other analysts have pointed us thus far that the speaker speaks with a heavy accent. Some have said he is potentially Kurdish, but I won't speak authoritatively on it.pic.twitter.com/OEIDuoMraJ
From the outset, at-Turki's speech has perhaps the grandest narrative of all the videos in the series so far. He talks about Turkey in the context of the fall of the Ottomans, Muslims being thrown into chaos, and the need for uniting behind a leader, AKA Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.pic.twitter.com/oQAmCQqluS
at-Turki's words closely mirror official ISIS propaganda lines, with similar narratives about the Ottomans and the need for Islamic leadership being found in "Turkey and the Fire of Nationalism" (2015), and lines about Muslims in chaos in "Structure of the Khilafah" (2016).pic.twitter.com/IXYusMIuIP
at-Turki talks about how an alliance of all the Muslims behind al-Baghdadi can not be ignored by the international community, quotes an oft-quoted Qur'anic verse that includes "So wait; indeed we, along with you, are waiting," and promises that "It is not the end of our fight."pic.twitter.com/Lgjyy7Ss3s
Raising a knife and threatening the Turkish government and America, at-Turki speaks about the "Crusaders" not being able to hurt ISIS at all in the same language ISIS used in their prime, not acknowledging losses in for example, Baghuz, that other videos in this series have.pic.twitter.com/Lxn8URW91O
The video ends with what is likely all the fighters in Wilayat Turkey renewing their pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which looks like 6 people (5 fighters on-screen, 1 behind the camera).pic.twitter.com/Tg8wvjOFZI
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