During this "visit", she trained women and girls in suicide bombing and plotted a terrorist attack in the United States, had previously been recruited as an asset by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), according to confidential information obtained by Nordic Monitor.

The man, identified as Volkan Ekren, grew up in secular circles in Ankara but later surfaced as a significant jihadist operative. His transformation from a disillusioned young Turk into a battlefield figure in Libya and Syria was driven largely by his radicalized wife, Allison Elizabeth Fluke-Ekren, known as Umm Mohammed and often described as the “ISIS empress” as well as by his clandestine ties to handlers within the Turkish intelligence service.

Ekren’s recruitment dates back to his time in Libya in 2012, where he fought alongside the jihadist militia Ansar al-Sharia, a faction that operated in parallel with other extremist groups during the post-Gaddafi chaos. The group’s anti-Western posture and its operational presence in Benghazi made it a useful vector for MIT’s covert activities in North Africa, where Turkey sought influence through a network of Islamist proxies.