Public prosecutors in Turkey’s Istanbul and Konya provinces decided to drop investigations into a 33-year-old Turkish man who was red-flagged by US authorities for being on the payroll of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
According to confidential documents obtained by Nordic Monitor, Yusuf Yaşar, a resident of Turkey’s conservative province of Konya, was the subject of two separate counterterrorism investigations launched by chief public prosecutor’s offices in Istanbul and Konya in 2018 and 2021, respectively.
Both investigations, pursued as part of his alleged connections to ISIS under case file numbers 2018/194340 and 2021/16759, were dropped. The documents, prepared by the Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK), did not offer any explanation as to why the investigations were not pursued by the prosecutors.
Source: Nordic Monitor