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Abu Erer al-Turkmani

Abu Erer al-Turkmani (17 July 1983 – 2 February 2016) was an Islamic State leader who was Emir of Telskuf.

Biography[]

Emit Erim was born on 17 July 1983 in Mosul, Iraq to a family of Sunni Muslim Turkmen, and he was an engineer before he joined the Islamic State. Taking on the nom de guerre of "Abu Erer al-Turkmani", he fought for ISIS in the Iraqi Civil War and was made Emir of Telskuf to the north of Mosul. On 2 February 2016, he was killed in a US Air Force bombing.

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