Turkey Returns to Financial Action Task Force ‘Grey List’
This designation shows yet again that NATO member Turkey continues to offer a permissive jurisdiction for terror finance, sanctions evasion, and money laundering under the 19-year rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party.
Aykan Erdemir is senior director of the Turkey Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), where Toby Dershowitz is senior vice president for government relations and strategy. Follow Aykan and Toby on Twitter @aykan_erdemir and @tobydersh. FDD is a Washington, DC-based, nonpartisan research institute focusing on national security and foreign policy.
This article was first published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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