Terrorism and Crime

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Turkish al-Qaeda network sets its sights on Israel, Arab regimes and Europe after Syria victory

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Erdogan’s former ally becomes priority target as Turkey-UAE extradition deal advances

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Turkey asks South Africa to extradite critics in exchange for deporting ISIL terrorists

The Turkish government has offered an exchange of Islamist State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) detainees of South...

Australian ISIL terrorist Prakash will be free in 2 years thanks to lenient Turkish judges

A panel of three judges who heard the case of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant Neil...

Subscription to popular children’s magazine considered terrorism crime in Turkey

Turkey secretly launched criminal investigations into subscribers of the nation’s one-time most popular children’s magazine because the parent company’s...

US-designated Iran sanctions buster operating freely in Turkey

Süleyman Sakan, a Turkish national who was sanctioned by the United States Treasury for violating Iran sanctions, has extensive...

Family-owned transport company implicated in illegal arms shipments to jihadists

April 1, 2019

A transportation and logistics company that was working with Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) in shipping arms to jihadist...

Turkish notaries union exposed as accomplice to mass prosecution of lawyers in Turkey

March 25, 2019

The Union of Turkish Notaries (Türkiye Noterler Birliği, or TNB) has helped the Erdogan government in the unlawful prosecution...

American Baptist minister in Turkey questioned over the murder of Russian ambassador

January 9, 2021

Turkish investigators questioned an American Baptist minister who had been conducting services in an Ankara hotel where the killer...

The tale of an arms-laden truck bound for al-Qaeda transported by Turkey’s intel agency

Erdoğan persecuted judicial council members who sided with prosecutors in probing illegal arms to jihadists

March 18, 2019

Turkey’s top judicial council members were jailed because they ruled that prosecutors who investigated the Turkish intelligence agency’s illegal...

Turkish charity IHH, named by Russia as arms runner to jihadists, linked to killer of Russian envoy

April 2, 2021

A front Turkish charity that was named by Russia as a sender of arms and supplies to jihadist groups...

Turkish judges released all al-Qaeda cell members for good behavior