Terrorism in Turkey: Should Travelers Be Worried?
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Turkey has responded to terrorism not only by adopting more stringent laws, but also, among other measures, by creating a terrorist blacklist, enhancing antiterrorist international cooperation, using an outreach program to communities to prevent terrorist recruitment, and relying on Turkey’s chief religious affairs body to counter violent extremist messaging.
In this essay, Audrey Kurth Cronin, Distinguished Service Professor at George Mason University’s School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, argues that because the United States does not know what the “end” of the war on terrorism would actually look like, its strategy is fundamentally flawed—with potentially disastrous consequences.
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The participation of the people does help, undoubtedly, in combating terrorism after all terrorists do live amongst us for the most part and if we can alert the authorities about them (if we know of anything) surely that would help. However, terrorism is a complex problem and needs addressing at multiple levels, not just one or two.
Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000 outlines terrorist activity as: “the use or threat of action where, the action involves serious violence against a person, serious damage to property, endangers a person’s life or creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public.”.
Terrorists have attacked tourists in Egypt in the past. There is a heightened threat of terrorist attacks targeting Coptic Christians from extremists linked to Daesh-Sinai in Egypt.