"Combat against Religionist Terrorism in Turkey: Al Qaeda and Turkish Hezbollah Cases - Part II
Monday , 02 April 2007
By Sedat Laciner (USAK)
* Al Qaeda in Turkey
The Hezbollah Case gave more experience to the Turkish police about the fundamentalist terrorism. More experts who know Islam and extremism very well were employed the police departments which deal with the religionist extremism and terrorism. Similar to the Hezbollah Case, Turkish officers did not arrest the sympathizers or supporters of Al Qaeda and Hizbut Tahrir organizations because there is no organization named Al Qaeda, like the PKK, which is united and disciplined organization, but there is an organization where people gather around an idea and carry out operations all over the world.[3] If you directly and impatiently attack such an organization, you could never follow the tracks which will take you to the big names of the organization. Arresting the sympathizers or low-ranked militants may have spoiled everything in Al Qaeda operations. Therefore the police followed the idea and relations, not only the militants. "
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