Turkish authorities first require intelligence in order to bar suspected travelers, he said, speaking at a news conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Turkey has deported between 1,500 and 2,000 foreign nationals whose names have appeared on a black list of 7,000 people provided by international intelligence agencies, he said.
[jpost.com by Reuters]
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Turkish PM refuses to take blame on foreign fighter flow ...
ReplyDeleteTurkey’s prime minister has refused to heed Western demands to “do more” to stem the flow of foreign fighters joining Islamic insurgents fighting in Iraq and Syria, saying the country has already blacklisted 7,000 people and deported 2,000 more.
“If we left our borders open, it was not for the passage of terrorists. We kept the border open for children, whose fathers and mothers had died, and for innocent women to find shelter in our country,” Davutoğlu said on Jan. 12 during a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
“We could have shut down the border, but then the responsibility of every child massacred by the Syrian regime’s bombs would belong to those who want us to close the borders,” he added................http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-pm-refuses-to-take-blame-on-foreign-fighter-flow.aspx?pageID=238&nID=76858&NewsCatID=338
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Turkey’s interior minister has said that there was no specific entry ban for Hayat Boumeddiene, partner of Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed four hostages at a supermarket in Paris last week...
ReplyDelete"There was no a specific entry ban for Hayat Boumeddiene as French officials did not notify us about her," Efkan Ala told reporters in Ankara on Monday.
Turkish intelligence services and security units are communicating with the French authorities, Ala added.
French media have claimed that Boumeddiene, dubbed “France’s most wanted woman”, is in Syria, having travelled there before last week’s deadly attacks..................http://www.aa.com.tr/en/rss/448993--turkey-there-was-no-entry-ban-for-boumeddiene
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Turkey complains of French reluctance in anti-terror cooperation ...
ReplyDeleteParis has been reluctant in anti-terrorism cooperation following last week’s deadly attacks in France by militants with international links, according to the Turkish authorities.
The French authorities, which ordered 10,000 troops into the streets Jan. 12 to protect sensitive sites, are hunting for the accomplices of Islamist militants who left 17 people dead in attacks that began on Jan. 7 with a massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and ended when three attackers were killed on Jan. 9 in simultaneous clashes with security forces around Paris.
It was not clear exactly how many accomplices the French forces are hunting for in addition to Hayat Boumeddiene, the widow of Amedy Coulibaly, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacker who killed four hostages Jan. 9 at a kosher grocery in Paris before being killed by security forces.
A source told daily Hürriyet that Turkish intelligence searched for Boumeddiene in its own database and immediately notified Paris that the woman had arrived in Turkey on Jan. 2, but French authorities insisted for another eight hours that she was in the kosher grocery as the attack unfolded. France provided Turkey with the cellphone numbers of Boumeddiene only after the eight-hour lag.....................http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-complains-of-french-reluctance-in-anti-terror-cooperation.aspx?pageID=238&nID=76865&NewsCatID=510
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