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MEMRI provides a bit of shocking information from Turkey in its latest dispatch of Arabic translations for the West. A Turkish terrorist group has launched a newspaper in Istanbul, Kaide ('al-Qaeda' in Turkish), which it distributes across the entire country: The Turkish political weekly Tempo, along with some major Turkish daily newspapers including Milliyet,Aksam and Cumhuriyet, reported that the Islamist Turkish terrorist organization Great East Islamic Raiders Front (IBDA-C) has begun publishing a new weekly, Kaide ("Al-Qaeda" in Turkish) which openly praises its namesake and idolizes Osama bin Laden. Kaide, which looks like an Al-Qaeda bulletin and includes all Al-Qaeda...

 World News » Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 23 November 2003 2132 hrs Erdogan questions al-Qaeda role as Istanbul prays for bomb victims ISTANBUL : Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan questioned whether the massive Istanbul bombings were the work of the al-Qaeda terror network, as the city's British community joined in solemn prayers for the dead. "We have some evidence of religious motives," Erdogan said in an interview with BBC television after the attacks on the British consulate and the offices of the HSBC banking group in which 28 people were killed and hundreds injured. "Is...

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - The series of suicide car bombings in Turkey over the last five days is intended to send a signal to Europe that it is next in line for terror attacks, Israeli security sources said. At least 27 people were killed and some 450 wounded in two powerful suicide car bomb blasts outside the British Consulate and a British-owned bank in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday. The attacks apparently were planned to coincide with President Bush's visit to Great Britain. Five days earlier, 25 people were killed and more than 300 wounded in twin suicide car bombings outside...

ANKARA - The following is a glance at militant Islamic groups active in Turkey: IBDA-C - ISLAMIC GREAT EASTERN RAIDERS-FRONT. The group, which advocates Islamic rule in this predominantly Muslim and officially secular country, is allegedly backed by Iran. It has claimed responsibility for Saturday's pickup truck bombings outside two synagogues in Istanbul that killed 24 people, but Turkish authorities disputed the claim. Active since the mid-1970's, it has become increasingly violent in the last decade and has an estimated 600 followers. The group has staged attacks on left-wing and Christian targets as well as secular-oriented intellectuals, claiming responsibility for...

<p>ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- Powerful explosions ripped through the British Consulate and a London-based bank near a shopping mall in Istanbul Thursday -- killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 450 others, Turkish Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu said.</p>

EU Found No Room on Terror List for Turkish Synagogue Bomb Group Turkish IBDA-C terrorists - Islamic extremists and... Trotskyists ***************************************************************** European Commission President, Romano Prodi hurried Saturday November 11 to condemn the terrorist car bombings at two Istanbul synagogues, Neve Shalom and Beit Israel, even before the final tally of the dead. The Italian official made the gracious gesture of visiting the central Milan synagogue and bringing the condolences of "the entire European Union" to Milan Rabbi Giuseppe Laras. After the meeting, the Italian official said: "There is no Europe without tolerance and these episodes are incompatible with our...

November 15, 2003 The Bombing of Synagogues in Istanbul: An al-Qaida Operation or a Revival of Turkish Islamist Terrorism? Ely Karmon ICT Senior Researcher Background On November 15, 2003, two nearly simultaneous carbomb attacks targeted Istanbul synagogues, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 255. The Neve Shalom synagogue, where most of the deaths reportedly occurred, was the scene of an earlier attack in 1986, when Palestinian terrorists members of the Fatah – Revolutionary Command (better known as the Abu Nidal organization, or ANO) killed 22 worshippers and wounded six others during a Sabbath service. On March 1,...