Is Turkey becoming a haven for terrorist financing?

New U.S. sanctions on Islamic State (ISIS) operatives based in Turkey have brought questions about Ankara’s counterterrorism priorities and raised the prospect that the country could face crippling economic sanctions of its own, experts have warned.

Turkish counterterrorism units detained Ismail Bayaltun in July 2015, several weeks after 48 tons of aluminum pigment owned by his export import company were barred from exiting Turkey into Syria.

The aluminum pigment, a raw paint material, is legally available on the market, but Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT) reportedly flagged the large shipment, informing the Ministry of Customs and Trade that it could also be used to make explosives.

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