IHH
Turkish Authorities Prevent Aid Flotilla Backed by Islamist Foundation From Sailing to Gaza
The canceled departure on August 3 of a Turkish aid flotilla bound for Gaza — just one week after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened a military invasion of Israel...
Flash Briefs
Finance Watchdog Removes Turkey From Grey List Despite Ongoing Support for Hamas
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) — an international money laundering and terror finance watchdog — removed Turkey from its grey list of countries that require stricter...
Flash Briefs
Turkish charity leaders meet with Taliban officials
On June 13, representatives from two Turkish charities met with Salam Hanafi, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister, in Afghanistan. Mehmet Ubeyd Kosger, representing the Hayrat Foundation, accompanied...
Op-eds
Turkey Cannot Be a Mediator in the Gaza War
The Turkish government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not shy about its enthusiastic support of Hamas. Last month Erdogan shocked observers after declaring “Turkey is a country that stands firmly behind...
Op-eds
Erdogan Needs a Reset with the US but Congress Could Stand in the Way
Turkey is attempting the impossible by trying to reestablish a productive relationship with the US while declaring his unreserved support for Hamas, and Congress may be gearing up to push back. After suffering...
Op-eds
Turkish Flotilla to Set Sail for Gaza
Israel is bracing for potential maritime trade disruptions due to imminent seaborne aid deliveries to Gaza from Turkey by Turkish charities and pro-Palestinian activist groups. The...
Flash Briefs
Turkish Organizations Ready Flotilla to Ignite Tensions With Israel
The “Freedom Flotilla Coalition” (FFC), consisting of several pro-Palestinian activist groups, including two Turkish charities — one designated by Israel as a terrorist organization — plans to send several...
Policy Briefs
Gaza Flotilla Plans Mid-April Sailing
A coalition of pro-Palestinian activist groups, including a Turkish charity outlawed by Israel, plans to send several ships to breach the Gaza Strip blockade in mid-April. The Freedom...
Flash Briefs
Turkey-Based Organization Prepares to Send Flotilla to Gaza
An assembly of international organizations announced on February 10 that it seeks to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza by sending a flotilla of humanitarian aid. The assembly,...
Flash Briefs
10 Things to Know About Hamas and Turkey
The terrorist organization Hamas receives significant funding, materiel, and political support from Turkey. For decades, Turkey and Israel enjoyed a productive partnership. However, since 2009, Turkish...
Insights
Turkey’s ‘Aid’ Organization Is a Front for Supporting Terrorism
Turkey’s premier aid organization, the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms (IHH), with strong links to the government, actively supports terrorist causes and should be designated as a Foreign (FTO)...
Op-eds
Erdogan’s Damning Response to the Hamas Attacks
Turkey’s president is widening the gulf between Ankara and her Western allies and partners.
Op-eds
Lawyer In U.S. Case Against Turkish Bank that Allegedly Supports Hamas Details Turkey’s Financial Support of Terrorist Groups
(Washington, D.C., October 4, 2019) – The lawyer representing the children of an American father and his Israeli wife murdered by Hamas terrorists in the West Bank in 2015 gives his first public interview...
Press Releases
Turkish Organizations Under Fire for Alleged Hamas Support
Turkey’s ties to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas are once again in the spotlight. Israeli authorities claimed this week that two charities with close ties to the ruling elite in Ankar...
Policy Briefs
How Hamas Allegedly Embezzles Millions in Christian Charity
The arrests of the head of a U.S. charity operating in the Gaza Strip—and of an UN engineer—put the international spotlight on terrorism finance in the nonprofit world. The&n...
Op-eds
The Troubling Truth About Turkey
Those who downplay the danger posed by terrorism often fall back on the argument that the terrorist designation is nothing more than a political instrument to attack one’s opponents or diss...
Op-eds
Hamas’s Benefactors: A Network of Terror
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I tha...
Congressional Testimonies
Hamas’s Benefactors: A Network of Terror
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I thank yo...
Congressional Testimonies
Turkey’s Flotilla Charity Seeks Renewed Confrontation with Israel
The Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), the Turkish charity that organized the ill-fated flotilla to the Gaza Strip in 2010, appears to be preparing for round two – this time with the hel...