Al-Qaeda members hijack Turkish plane
AKP Watch August 18th, 2007
Two hijackers said to be Al-Qaeda members forced a Turkish passenger plane to land in the southern Turkish city of Antalya early Saturday.
The men, who said they were protesting against the United States, reportedly wanted to hijack the plane to Iran or Syria.
The hijackers announced after the plane landed that women and children could leave. Eventually all passengers and crew members were released unharmed and the hijackers surrendered.
In recent years, under Islamic-Oriented AKP administration, Turkey became a training ground for islamic terrorist organizations. Prime Minister Erdogan’s -who thinks expression of “Islamic terrorism” was unacceptable- showed great tolerance to organization tied to islamic terrorism even an Al-Qaeda linked magazine called “Kaide” published openly in Turkey — idolizes bin Laden, yet faces no prosecution.
Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan has openly accepted and defended his close friendship with Yasin El Kadi, listed as a financier of the terrorist group Al Qaeda in the United Nations list of supporters of terrorism.
The U.S. Department of Treasury has frozen the assets of Yasin al-Qadi because of links to al-Qaeda. The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet has reported that Erdogan’s closest advisor Cuneyd Zapsu was a business partner of al-Qadi. Erdogan’s continued reliance on Zapsu at a minimum suggests a lack of judgement, and at worse suggests his values are not always consistent with Atatürk’s legacy. The embrace of conspiracy theories by Abdullah Gul indicates a basic irresponsibility that is unbecoming not only on the world stage, but which also should be in Turkey itself.
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