Tag Archives: Turkey

The Financial Action Task Force said Turkey is the only NATO country to have a “gray” rating, due to concerns over Turkey’s system for identifying and freezing terrorist assets pursuant to UN Security Council resolutions. The Foreign Ministry said it is in fact making efforts to provide budget support to Somalia in 2014. A previously […]

A Ukrainian man on a flight from the Ukraine was arrested at Istanbul airport for claiming to have a bomb and demanding the plane take him to the Sochi Olympics. Gunmen attacked the office of the Nationalist Movement Party in Istanbul, two weeks after attackers killed a party adviser and injured seven members. Azerbaijani journalist […]

Foreign Minister Davutoğlu said Turkish forces “had to hit” an Islamic State of the Iraq and the Sham convoy on Jan. 28 as the al Qaeda-linked group is threatening Turkey. Thousands of Turkmen living along the Syrian border have entered Turkey over the past week, fleeing clashes with ISIS. Syrian National Coalition offices in Istanbul […]

Turkish national intelligence and police reported that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham is planning to attack targets inside Turkey with car bombs; it also said Turkish forces destroyed three ISIS vehicles inside the Syrian border on Jan. 28. According to the report, ISIS now controls the Azaz, Jarablus, and Yayladağı border posts […]

Israel’s head of military intelligence said al Qaeda maintains bases in Turkey, reportedly in the provinces of Karaman, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa, and warned that foreign jihadists enter Syria weekly but “do not stay there.” Prime Minister Erdogan visited Tehran in an effort to improve relations and secure a discount for the purchase of natural gas, […]

The government is reportedly introducing legislation that would allow the National Intelligence service to legally transport weapons to the Syrian rebels. Nearly 500 police officials have been reassigned and largely demoted in Ankara and Izmir, and across the country 96 judges and prosecutors were reassigned. Syrian opposition members in Istanbul said Turkish officials warned them […]

Turkish intelligence issued a warning that ISIS suicide bombers planned to attack hotels in Hatay, Ankara, and Istanbul in an attempt to target members of the Syrian opposition and Free Syrian Army in advance of the Geneva II talks. The army said it discovered and destroyed a 500-meter-long pipeline used for smuggling oil into Hatay […]

Police stopped as many as seven trucks in Adana that were carrying weapons and explosives near the Syrian border; the Adana governor’s office said the trucks were on a regular duty for National Intelligence. Foreign Minister Davutoğlu claimed that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham is working with the Assad regime in Syria. […]

The prosecutor’s office in Van claimed that the recent operation resulting in the rest of some 25 suspects was aimed at al Qaeda, not the IHH charity. On Jan. 15, 13 of the suspects were referred to court; five of them were released yesterday, four were released pending bail, and the remaining four were detained. […]

Authorities referred 13 of 28 suspected al Qaeda members to court after their recent arrest; the remaining suspects are still being interrogated. Among those arrested are al Qaeda’s alleged senior member in Turkey, Halis Bayancuk, along with the terror group’s second-in-command in the Middle East, İbrahim Şen. Some three senior al Qaeda operatives are said […]

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 […]