Ankara: Turkey has captured a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.
Erdogan made the announcement while delivering a speech in the capital of Ankara but did not give other details.
He did not say when or how the woman was captured or identify her by name.
One of al-Baghdadi's aides has said that shadowy IS leader had four wives, the maximum number he can have at one time under Islamic law.
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"We caught his wife, but we didn't make a fuss about it. I am announcing this today for the first time," Erdogan said while criticizing the United States for leading a "public relations campaign" about Baghdadi's slaying.
The IS leader blew himself up during an October 26 raid by US special forces on his heavily fortified safe house in the Syrian province of Idlib.
Erdogan's announcement comes just days after Turkish forces captured al-Baghdadi's elder sister, identified as Rasmiya Awad, in the town of Azaz, in Aleppo province in northwestern Syria.
The area is part of the region administered by Turkey after it carried out military incursions to chase away IS militants and Kurdish fighters, starting in 2016.
Allied Syrian groups manage the area known as the Euphrates Shield zone.
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