Since the country’s June 2018 elections, Erdogan’s government has failed to respond to more than half of the 13,488 parliamentary questions submitted. Tanal’s renewed inquiry will likely meet the same fate. The challenge of illicit finance continues to grow in Turkey, which has become a permissive jurisdiction for a number of rogue actors in addition to Iran.
*Editor’s note: Parts of this article were copied from previous FDD’s Long War Journal reports, which are linked throughout. Thomas Joscelyn is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Senior Editor for FDD’s Long War Journal.