Foreign Minister Davutoğlu claimed that the Assad regime in Syria has not yet begun to fight al Qaeda. The family of Prime Minister Erdogan is being drawn into a corruption probe involving its ties to designated global terrorist Yasin al Qadi, a wealthy al Qaeda-linked Saudi businessman who reportedly entered Turkey illegally several times in recent years. Turkey closed two of its border crossings into Syria this week due to clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and rebel groups. Turkey is said to be quietly supporting the Islamic Front in the border areas. A Brazil-bound Turkish airlines flight from Istanbul made an emergency landing in Algeria due to a bomb scare.
