Monday, August 18, 2025

Groups demand investigation into how anti-terror forces killed 19-year-old

Groups rallied outside the government building. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The death of a young Chechen man who was shot in an anti-terror operation last month has sparked an outcry among locals in the Muslim-inhabited region he came from, while activists in Tbilisi rallied outside the government building.

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Killed ISIS operative Chatayev was planning attacks in Georgia and Turkey

Akhmed Chatayev. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A notorious ISIS fighter who was killed in Tbilisi a month ago was planning terror attacks against diplomatic missions in Georgia and Turkey, Georgian authorities said on Tuesday.

The security police made the claim based on information

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Georgian authorities confirm Akhmed Chatayev died in Nov 22 Tbilisi siege

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s State Security Service (SUS) acknowledged Friday that one of the suspects killed in a counterterrorism operation Nov 22 was Akhmed Chatayev.

Local media have speculated that the Chechnya-born ISIS member was among the dead.

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'Mastermind of Istanbul attack was an agent for Saakashvili'

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Sozar Subari. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Two leading politicians in Georgia believe that Akhmed Chatayev, the suspected mastermind of the terrorist attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, was an ‘agent of the previous government.’

“It turns out that this prominent terrorist [Chatayev] was an agent

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Georgia denies that Istanbul airport attack's mastermind was its citizen

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Akhmed Chatayev in Tbilisi in 2012. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russia and Georgia disagree about what citizenship the suspected mastermind behind the terror attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport June 28 has.

Russia claims Akhmed Chatayev is not a Russian but a Georgian citizen. Georgia, on the other hand,

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Was Istanbul airport attack organized by militant with links to Georgia?

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Akhmed Chatayev. (Interpressnews.)
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Chatayev was missing his left leg and right arm as he appeared outside the court building in Tbilisi in December, 2012. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The terrorist attack at Istanbul Atatürk Airport on 28 June, which claimed the lives of 44 victims and three suicide bombers and left 239 people wounded, is believed to have been organized by Akhmed Chatayev, a Russian national

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