Abdulla Kurd

Doğer Sevdet, more commonly known as Abdulla Kurd (sometimes Abdullah Kurd), and also known as Abdullah al-Turki or Salauddin, was a Kurdish Islamist militant fighting in Chechnya. Kurd was the top deputy to Saudi-born field commander Muhannad, the fourth Emir of the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya. Following Muhannad's death near the village of Serzhen-Yurt on 21 April 2011, Kurd was said to have assumed Muhannad's role as the international coordinator of the region's terror cells for al-Qaeda, with a primary role of securing funding from abroad in order to finance insurgent operations in the North Caucasus. He was killed by Russian security forces in the Vedeno district of Chechnya on 3 May 2011. Virtually nothing is known of Kurd's early...