
Adem Karadag (8 April 1987-) was a member of the Grey Wolves who was one of the people involved in the 2015 Bangkok bombing.
Biography[]
Adem Karadag was born on 8 April 1987 in Istanbul, Turkey to a family of Sunni Muslim Turks. Karadag joined the Grey Wolves, a pan-Turkic terrorist group that sought to establish a unified Turkic state from Central Asia to Anatolia.
In 2015, after Thailand deported Uyghurs accused of terrorism back to China instead of sending them to asylum in Turkey, the Grey Wolves ordered Karadag to carry out a bombing against Thailand. Karadag owned bomb-making materials and false Turkish passports in his Bangkok apartment, and on 17 August 2015 20 people were killed and 125 wounded when a backpack bomb exploded at the Erawan Shrine near the Ratchaprasong Intersection in Bangkok.
Karadag left the backpack in the crowd before it exploded, causing panic in the area. He was arrested on 30 August after a search of his apartment found the evidence, and on 26 September he was confirmed to be the bomber.