The US Department of the Treasury on Thursday imposed sanctions on five al-Qaeda supporters operating in Turkey who allegedly provided a range of financial and travel facilitation services to al-Qaeda and cooperated with Turkish intelligence to transport weapons to extremists in Syria.
Letter submitted by the Russians to the UN Security Council in 2016 accused Oncu Nesil along with other jihadist organizations of arms smuggling.
Oncu Nesil was named in a UN Security Council document submitted by Russia on Feb. 10, 2016 as an organization that sent arms and supplies to terrorist groups in Syria with help from the Turkish intelligence service.
In 2014 weapons and ammunition were found in humanitarian aid trucks bound for Syria. It was later revealed that the trucks belonged to the Turkish intelligence agency and that the cargo was going to fighters in Syria.
Nesil was a well-known pro Al-Nusra association that had organized aid trucks to Syria. The government claimed there was humanitarian aid in the trucks, but images of the weapons were later published in the Turkish press.
Erdogan accused the prosecutors and gendarmes who stopped the trucks of treason, claiming a conspiracy against the government. The prosecutor and gendarmes who were later tried were sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
Turkey, which is accused by its Western allies of supporting radical movements in the region, has started to temporarily sanction people who are blacklisted by the US and freeze their assets in order to get along with the administration of US President Joe Biden. However, judicial proceedings are never initiated against these individuals.
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