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From: Abe Rein (ARein@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 18:07:19 EST
IRAN EXTRADITES ALLEGED TURKISH ASSASSIN
Officials from Turkey's national security organization (Milli Istihbarat
Teskilati, or MIT) on 1 February announced that the Iranian Ministry of
Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has extradited Islamic Great East
Raiders Front (IBDA-C) member Yasar Polat, Istanbul's "Radikal" daily
reported on 2 February. Polat allegedly planned the IBDA-C's January
1993 assassination of Jak Kamhi, and he eventually fled to Iran. MIT and
MOIS officials met to discuss the matter, and then the MIT provided the
MOIS with Polat's Iranian address and photographs of him in Iran. The
MOIS handed him over at the Turkey-Iran border. Turkey has previously
accused Iran of backing IBDA-C, and the MIT has documented alleged
IBDA-C assassinations of Iranian oppositionists in Turkey and accused it
in the October 1999 assassination of Turkish intellectual Ahmet Kisali
(see "RFE/RL Iran Report," 26 July 1999 and 24 January 2000). BS
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