Turkish Airlines denied allegations that it carried weapons to Boko Haram in Nigeria, after a leaked audio recording surfaced in which an airline executive purportedly asked a Turkish intelligence official whether the cargo might be used to kill Muslims or Christians. Justice Minister Bozdağ denied the possibility of conditional release for jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party […]
Yemen faces increasing weapons, drugs smuggling problem
Saudi jihadist says forced to join ISIS in Syria
Syria’s ‘third force’ Kurds may emerge stronger from conflict
Generations on, Christians fleeing Syria return to Turkey
Maghreb to tighten noose on Syria-bound jihadists
Terrorism Finance in Turkey: A Growing Concern
In their first phone conversation in six months, President Erdogan and US President Obama “agreed on the importance of close cooperation … to address the growing terrorist presence in Syria.” Authorities removed 207 officers from their posts in the Ankara police counterterrorism unit today. The ruling AKP party is seeking to restructure Turkey’s national intelligence […]
Turkish gov’t to expand powers of national intelligence agency
Jihadist way of life in Jordan
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 […]
Confessions of a French jihadist in Syria
Escaped Inmates From Iraq Fuel Syria Insurgency
British Jihadists Torture Syrian Rebel
Journalist in exile: How I was smeared, prosecuted and deported
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 […]
Why Is Turkey harboring terrorists?
Turkey passes law tightening control of internet
Elephant Campaign: How Africa’s ‘white gold’ funds the al Shabaab militants –
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 […]
Indonesian Militants Join Fight in Syria
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, […]
Turkey’s Syria policy needs to be recalibrated
Rebels in Syria Claim Control of Resources
Turkish Flotilla Charity Tied to Terrorism Again
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 […]
Syria Talks Open with Acrimony and Testy Exchanges
Special Report: Amid Syria’s violence, Kurds carve out autonomy
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 […]