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Islamic Terrorist Activities in Turkey in the 1990s

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The History of the “Islamic Movement” in Turkey.[11]

The Islamic subversive and terrorist activity in Turkey began in the 1960s. As early as 1967 and 1973 the leaders of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party) were imprisoned for attempting “to bring the Islamic State Constitution to Turkey.”[12] Islamic Jihad appeared as a real terrorist threat in the 1980s, after a series of assassinations of Jordanian, Saudi and Iraqi diplomats. In October 1991 Islamic Jihad took responsibility for killing an American sergeant and wounding an Egyptian diplomat to protest the Middle East peace conference in Madrid.[13] For many years it was assumed that this group was a Lebanese Shiite terrorist organization, until it was discovered that a Turkish branch existed, engaging in assassinations of secular intellectuals.