Didim Today

The killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has brought major concerns to Turkey along with the rest of the world. The U S carried out the attacks on Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan couple of days ago Turkey will be following this closely, along with the security within Turkey.

Turkey has suffered Al Qaeda attacks in past, In November 2003, an attack cause deaths, there was also a car bomb attacks in Neve Shalon Synagogues with a death toll of 27 and 300 people injured, the targets were government buildings, Banks, also car bomb attacks on vehicles cause further deaths in 2006 and 2010 which injured 400 and killed 30 people. These attacks where linked to Turkish government taking part in with Afghanistan and training Afghan army, with NATO forces together. This is a good development for the world.

According to Hurriyet national news “The Turkish president described al-Qaeda as the worlds most dangerous and sophisticated terror organization, while Defence Minister Vecdi Gönül noted that the group had mounted fatal attacks within Turkey as well.”

But Bin laden does not work alone, he has remarkable independently pocket cells that work independent of each other, and each pocket cells have their master minds, although Osama Bin laden is dead, Al Qaeda can still be a threat to the whole world , Al Qaeda will continue on with their own initiated groups.

However in Turkey a large number of Al Qaeda had been arrested and this will continue be bigger threat to the world and Turkey. Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç also urged the world not to see Muslims as potential terrorists. “Portraying Muslims as terrorists is one the most negative attitudes we witness in today’s world,” he said in the north-western city of Bursa.

Also according to the killing of bin Laden, Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Şahin said: “Those who live by the sword die by the sword. Every reasonable [person] should accept that nothing can be achieved through terror.”Turkish police have regularly targeted suspected supporters of the Islamic extremist network since two sets of twin suicide bombings hit Istanbul five days apart in November 2003.

A Turkish cell of al-Qaeda was held responsible for the attacks, in which explosive-laden trucks targeted two synagogues, the British Consulate and a British bank, killing a total of 63 people, including the British consul.

Seven men were jailed for life in 2007 over the bombings, among them a Syrian national who masterminded and financed the attacks. “Though al-Qaeda has no strong base in Turkey, our security forces have been launching operations against its few sympathizers and sometimes detaining and even arresting them,” Arınç said.