2013-02-12 11:11:18
Last week’s suicide bombing outside the U.S. embassy in Ankara, carried out by a Marxist Leninist group known as DHKP-C, drew condemnation from across the Turkish political spectrum. But the timing of the attack and the subsequent comments could not have come at a more awkward moment for Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government is now under heavy pressure to adopt legislation on the financing of terrorism. If it fails to do so by February 22, the Financial Action Task Force (the U.N. of terrorism finance) will add Turkey to the black list, which is currently only comprised to two countries: Iran and North Korea.
TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN.
With two weeks to comply, Turkey is scrambling. But it didn’t have to be that way.
Ankara was first notified of its deficiencies in 2007, when a FATF team (an Italian, a Russian, a French, an American and a specialist from the FATF’s Paris office) alerted the Turks that, after a “mutual evaluation,” it had not adequately criminalized terrorism finance in the country. Nor had it done enough to put in place infrastructure that could help identify and freeze terrorist assets.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/turkeys-terror-finance-problem_700428.html
TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN.
With two weeks to comply, Turkey is scrambling. But it didn’t have to be that way.
Ankara was first notified of its deficiencies in 2007, when a FATF team (an Italian, a Russian, a French, an American and a specialist from the FATF’s Paris office) alerted the Turks that, after a “mutual evaluation,” it had not adequately criminalized terrorism finance in the country. Nor had it done enough to put in place infrastructure that could help identify and freeze terrorist assets.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/turkeys-terror-finance-problem_700428.html
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