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No need to dicuss personally with a terrorist-symphatizer from a terrrorist-loving third-world hole.
Report: Turkey Financing Top Global Terror Groups
Turkey has become a principal financial hub for terrorists under the leadership of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose government has helped Iran skirt sanctions, supported jihadi groups in Syria, and provided financial backing to Hamas, according to a new report by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).
Turkey, a key U.S. ally, “has turned a blind eye” to terror financing and is potentially on the verge of crossing the line to becoming an official state sponsor of terrorism, according to the Friday report, which cites the Erdogan government’s close ties to some of the world’s top terror organizations and operatives.
The report comes just a day after 84 U.S. lawmakers and former government officials urged President Barack Obama to confront Erdogan over his harsh repression of political opponents.
As Turkey’s support for terrorism expands, the Obama administration has remained silent out of fear of offending Erdogan, whom the White House considers a strategic asset, according to the report authored by FDD’s Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Treasury Department.
The Obama administration “has remained on the sidelines, expressing relatively mild concern about the crackdowns on law enforcement officials and the jailing of journalists, while electing not to mention terrorism finance issues publicly,” the report states.
“Washington’s silence stems from fears of a fall-out with Turkey, which has been a crucial ally over the years, and is situated strategically at the intersection of Europe and the Middle East,” according to the report. “But Turkey’s actions constitute a direct challenge to Washington’s sanctions regime.”
The report catalogues in detail Turkey’s cozy relationship with jihadi groups, terrorist operatives, and the Iranian regime.
Last year, “Turkey was involved in a massive sanctions-busting scheme with Tehran,” according to the report. “Now known as ‘gas-for-gold,’ the scheme helped the Iranian regime gain some $13 billion” despite international sanctions meant to stop such deals.
Additionally, over 2,000 Iranian companies are reportedly registered in Turkey, where pro-Erdogan political elites have been accused of facilitating large cash transfers with Tehran.
Turkey’s top intelligence agency is also believed to be working with Iran in a bid to “scuttle intelligence operations” aimed at stopping Iran’s nuke program, according to the report.
Erdogan has also gone to great lengths to bolster extremist rebel groups in Syria, according to the report, which cites “mounting evidence suggests that Turkey has been directly or indirectly arming, training, and even financing Sunni jihadi groups” in the country.
Turkey reportedly sent 47 tons of weapons to Syrian rebels during a six-month period in 2013, according to the report.
There are “few questions that it has been Turkish policy to provide support to a range of rebel factions,” the report states. “Turkey now appears to allow a broad spectrum of anti-Assad forces, including those with radical ideologies, to operate on Turkish territory.”
“Jihadi personnel and finances” have been identified as flowing from Turkey to Syria.
Israeli military officials have additionally claimed that “Syrian al Qaeda groups were training in three separate bases in the Turkish provinces.”
Erdogan has also been exposed for having a close friendship with Yasin al-Qadi, a Saudi Arabian businessman who has faced sanctions for his financial ties to al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and other terrorist fronts.
Hamas has become another ally of the Erdogan government, which has held meetings with the terror group’s senior leadership and allows one of its key operative to work in Turkey.
Senior Hamas leader Saleh al-Aruri has been living in Turkey, “where he has been allegedly involved in the financing and logistics of Hamas operations,” according to the report, which states that “al-Aruri may be raising funds on Turkish soil that go to support terrorism.”
This coincides with “broader Turkish support” for Hamas, including political cover and financial backing.
The Turkish government’s growing ties to terror have come amid a corruption scandal that has rocked Erdogan’s AKP political party, which has “purged the investigators, prosecutors, and journalists involved” in exposing the corruption.
FDD’s Schanzer warned that left unchecked by the United States and the rest of the international community, “Turkey’s terrorism finance problems could fester further.”
“These problems have already raised questions about whether Turkey currently serves as a barrier to extremism from the Middle East,” Schanzer said.
"Invasion of East Turkestan in 50 years ago"Constaniople, as it is Istanbul now.. conquered byTurks in 1453 some 560 years ago.
Today it's inhabited with over 12 million Turks.
I you are done with Constantinople, maybe we can compare your invasion of East Turkestan in 50 years ago... which was largely inhabited by Uyghurs.
Invasion of East Turkestan in 50 years ago"
Ridiculous, so-called East Turkestan, where? The so-called East Turkestan rebellion in November 1933 established the puppet government, in January 1934, the KMT Hui Muslim Zhongying eliminated. The mere existence of two months.
Xinjiang, Han Dynasty ruled by the central government,named西域都护府.
Until the Tang Dynasty, The ninth century AD,Tang Dynasty collapse, the end of Han people rule in Xinjiang time,
During this period, there have been intermittent and again rule.
Ming Dynasty ruled only a small part,
Qing dynasty, the Manchu-led troops defeated Junger Mongolia, Xinjiang, a significant reduction in the Mongols, Uighurs in Xinjiang talent to become the major ethnic groups。
China's central government has once again become the territory, Perhaps you will say Manchu Qing Dynasty was established,, but today over 99% of Manchu people agree China,They are Chinese identity.
In 1911, the Qing emperor to abdicate, the Republic of China was founded, Xinjiang, like other Provence
, as controlled by local warlords,盛世才 Sheng shicai, the long rule of Xinjiang, in the meantime, the so-called East Turkestan, there are just two months。
the east turkeystan were created under the help of soviet union.I will research this subject more, then i will come and discuss with you.
Ankara likes to present many of its neighbors, including even Iran, as friends “despite few differences in opinion” but Turkish diplomats start accepting that ambitious Turkish foreign policy has largely backfired. Turkey is not talking to Damascus, Baghdad and Cairo, is having troubled relationships with Lebanon and Iran, and has failed to restore diplomatic ties with Israel and Armenia. Meanwhile, there is still long way to go to establish healthy relationships with Greece, Russia and the European Union at some point.
Educating some members from Turkey on China's Xinjiang is a tall task, if not impossible.
By the way, if they really had a solution to China's terrorism problem, they would first apply it to their own disintegrating foreign policy and declining regional status: LOL
How not to win friends: Turkey’s foreign policy falls apart
As a Pakistani, I have great respect for my Chinese friends, but this is shocking and disappointing- China restricts Ramazan fasting in Xinjiang - World - DAWN.COM
Zhang Chunxian, party chief of Xinjiang, at a meeting in Beijing. Photo: Simon Song
Xinjiang party chief Zhang Chunxian has vowed to use an iron fist to stop terrorists, while also pledging to use an education campaign to engage ethnic Uygurs more effectively.
Zhang vowed to respond to violence "firmly' and "precisely" during a visit to a military outpost in Urumqi with armed forces commander Wang Jianping yesterday, according to local news portal Tianshan.net.
In the meeting, Zhang said the paramilitary police played an essential role in the long-term stability of the region.
Xinjiang has become the front line in Beijing's national anti-terrorism crackdown, with the central government blaming the recent spate of violence around the country, including bombings and knife attacks, on separatists seeking to establish an independent Islamic state.
However, human rights groups and the mainly Muslim Uygurs say Beijing's hardline stance against religious practices and human rights violations in Xinjiang are only driving more people to extremism.
Several Uygur academics last week expressed support for the anti-terror campaign, saying militants sowing dissent and attacking innocents did not represent the majority's views.
President Xi Jinping, while urging tough punishment for terrorists, called for a campaign to better engage and integrate Uygurs in the region during a visit in April.
He encouraged the minority group to learn both their mother tongue and Chinese, and called for more development and jobs.
Earlier this week, government websites in Xinjiang issued notices that officials, civil servants and students were banned from participating in Ramadan, a holy month of fasting for Muslims.
The Turpan city website warned "civil servants and students cannot participate in fasting and other religious activities".
The Xinjiang Tarim River Basin Management Bureau posted photos of Muslim cadres at a meal to celebrate the anniversary of China's Communist Party on a date coinciding with Ramadan.
"The XPCC's development focus is building cities and gathering people together in the new era. The priority is building more cities and townships in southern Xinjiang as a means to maintain social stability and boost local development,"
The XPCC has so far established seven cities, with three of them, Alar, Tumshuq and Tiemenguan, located in southern Xinjiang. Alar, Tumshuq were built in 2004, and Tiemenguan was built in 2012.
The efforts included helping local women in Hotan's Pishan farm develop a hand knitting business, and financing local youth to start their own businesses. Pishan is the hometown of the five suspects in the bombing of an Urumqi street market in May 22, which left 39 people dead and 94 injured.