ABSTRACT
This chapter describes Turkey’s terrorism problem and relevant terrorist organisations therein and Turkey’s counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regime from a historical perspective before analysing its CTF system and approach in detail, as a case study. It explains Turkey’s response to terrorist threats and its counter-terrorism structure and the main CTF basis in terms of existing legal procedures and regulations. Left-wing terrorism and its roots go back to the 1970s student movements. Their main objective has been to change the current political regime of Turkey to a communist state system where the distribution of the wealth would be regulated according to Marxist-Leninist ideology. DHKP/C has a similar ideology to those of the other left-wing terrorist organisations which aim to change Turkey’s political system. Ethno-nationalist and separatist terrorism has been another significant security concern for Turkey since the early 1980s. The Kurdistan Worker’s Party, as one of main terrorist threats in Turkey, fits into this category of ethno-nationalist and separatist terrorism.
