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The Grand Turk
'Risk desks' set up to stanch jihadist flow
2015-02-03
[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkey has taken a new step in its struggle against the flow of imported muscle heading to Syria via its soil, establishing "risk desks" at airports, border gates and ports in order to prevent potential imported muscle from passing into conflict-driven Syria.

The entrance of many of the fighters stems from failures in intelligence-sharing with EU countries, according to Turkish authorities.

Following the Jan. 7 terrorist attacks in Gay Paree against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
and a Jewish supermarket that left 17 people dead, Ankara rapidly put new measures in place.

Ankara has complained that many European countries, especially La Belle France, have either not shared intelligence or provided intelligence belatedly concerning the passage of imported muscle through Turkish territory aiming to join the ranks of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Because of European countries' ostensible reluctance to share intelligence, Turkey increased measures at border gates and cruise ship berths.

In addition to risk or crisis desks, interrogation rooms have been established at airports, border gates and ports. Suspects who have entered Turkey have been interrogated there by anti-terrorism and intelligence units. If any sign of connection with a terrorist group is determined following the interrogation, Turkish authorities first contact the home countries of the suspects and share the information they have gathered. Afterwards, the suspects are deported.
Posted by:Fred

#1  I'm not sure why countries should want to prevent jihadis from leaving for Syria. What I don't understand is why they would let them back in.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-02-03 08:01  

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