This man may be a member of the Grey Wolves. “The group’s ideology centres on the glory days of Turkish history, seeking to unite Muslim Turkic peoples from the Balkans to Central Asia in a pan-Turkish extension of the Turkish nation-state.”
“Mystery man in Bangkok bomb probe ‘never said a word,'” Reuters, August 30, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
BANGKOK – The evidence seized by police investigating Thailand’s deadliest bombing includes an apparently damning trove of explosives, fertilizer, and piles of fake passports, but the shabby-looking foreigner they arrested on Saturday remains a mystery.
There has been no word of his nationality, affiliation or whether the evidence seized in a shabby Bangkok apartment block amounts to a smoking gun for the attack on a crowded downtown shrine that killed 20 people two weeks ago.
Reuters interviews with neighbors, investigators and the community in the city suburb of Nong Chok paint a picture of a reclusive and secretive Muslim who seldom ventured beyond the four rooms he occupied in the grimy orange and cream-colored building.
Police have been tight-lipped – at times cryptic – about the man they indicate is the chief suspect caught on camera leaving a bag at the site of a bombing that shook Bangkok’s bustling commercial heart.
They are checking DNA samples and calls made from his phone, but have not indicated the man has said anything since his arrest.
According to a couple who rent a room on the same floor, the suspect was not alone and shared the accommodation with a man of similar ethnicity, who was last seen on Friday.
“There’s another; he’s much taller,” said the man, who requested anonymity because he feared for his safety.
The couple said they instantly recognized the images on newscasts that went viral on social media of the thin, bearded man with a pale complexion and tightly cropped hair.
They had seen him sometimes kneeling and praying in the corridor. On the rare occasions he was spotted outside, he appeared focused and walked with purpose.
“They’re very quiet neighbors,” said the man. “The taller man buys food for them.”…
Among the passports seized, some had images of the same man, bearing the name Adem Karadag, purportedly Turkish, with birth dates of 1987 and 1985….
Thai police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang on Saturday insisted the bombing was not terrorism and declared the man’s motive was “taking personal revenge for his comrades”….
Across the road, worshippers at the Al Madanee Mosque, the largest in the area, said they had never seen the suspect.
“I pray here five times a day, every day, and I’ve never seen him,” Qasim Ghulam Mohammad said after prayers on Sunday….
Of course. When have we ever heard anything different from the local mosque, whenever there is a jihad plot?

epistemology says
The Grey Wolves used to be a purely nationalist and fascist political organisation in Turkey and abroad. But since the re-Islamisation things changed dramatically. The Grey Wolves have remained a nationalist and fascist political group but today they’re fervent jihadis as well. So no surprise that they’re behind this Bangkok bombing.
Wherever we live we’ve got to be vigilant and keep the muzzies out. I can only hope the Thai police do a good job and catch them asap so that the tourists can return to Thailand. The Thais don’t deserve being punished because of muzzie killers.
Westman says
“..the bombing was not terrorism..” – The relatives of the dead might not believe that it happened as randomly as a metorite falling from the sky.
Michael Copeland says
In keeping with modern police best practice that announcement was probably decided before the first police arrived at the scene.
JIMJFOX says
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Anon says
There are 500 000 Grey Wolf members and supporters in Germany.
The Grey Wolves are fanatical jihadists fighting in Syria and Burma, providing weapons and training.
They operate openly in Turkish society.
I knew this was a Grey Wolves operation the minute I saw the photo of the chap in the glasses.
Thai authorities are denying this was a terror attack and not international terrorism.
Now, why would Turkey be punishing Thailand by sending in the wolves?
And why is Thailand blaming this on a “family fued”?
It is indeed a riddle. One must check Thailand’s past actions towards muslims to understand this war. Obviously Turkey was responding to Thailand’s fight against the Islamic insurgency within Thailand.
felon 5241 says
‘Obviously Turkey was responding to Thailand’s fight against the Islamic insurgency within Thailand.’
Hold your horses! You have to take into consideration the incident regarding the repatriation of the Urghurs to China about a month ago and the attack on the Thai consulate in Istanbul which occurred as a result of that.
Baucent says
Now you a getting warm. Read the “Bangkok Post” website for latest news.
This group, and they are talking of 5 “foreign” men (and a muslim Thai woman who kept a “safe house” at a second location), are likely to be Turks who have been in Thailand for some time. Their original purpose seems to be to assist Turkic Uigher muslims (and maybe other muslims) to travel from Thailand to Turkey where they may have then crossed into Syria to join ISIS.
To this purpose the group supplied fake Turkish passports to the wannabe Jihadists. 200 such passports were found in the first apartment the police raided. When 100 Uighers were deported back to China, these were probably going to be assisted by this group. What followed was an attack on the Thai Embassy in Turkey and then the shrine bombing.
We can I think assume the Bangkok group bombed the shrine for both Jihadist and revenge reasons against Thailand. Unfortunately Thailand’s slowness to admit the possibility that the bombers were “foreign” has probably allowed them to slip out of the country.
felon 5241 says
Very interesting.
Sam says
Again, Islam has nothing to do with it. It just happens that two Moslem guys from Turkey go to Bangkok make bombs and kill innocent people. They spent their own money without any help from Moslem groups, Moslem friends in the mosque they attend. There is no evidence of their being brainwashed for years and years by their Imam or family members. Another isolated incident in that perpetrators happen to be Moslem.
Islam proves to be a religion of peace again and again and again. What a great religion Islam Is!
Angemon says
Time to work on that confirmation bias…
Benedict says
Countries need to stop being in denial and accept that Islam is a violent religion and shows no respect towards anyone other than a muslim. Though they are fighting among themselves and killing each other in the middle east it is okay for them. This political correct thing is killing nations. Wake up