A report by the Dutch intelligence agency said that the Dahesh organization is currently using Turkish territory as a strategic base to restore the organization's strength and launch a covert war in Europe, the Intelligence News website reported on Thursday.
The assessment came in a report published for the first time by the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands, known as "Aidid", in Dutch on its website under the title "The legacy of Syria: Global Jihad is still a threat to Europe."
The 22-page report said the Turkish government did not see extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and advocated a national security threat.
Instead, "the Turkish security services are much more interested in the Kurdish rebels of the PKK in Turkey, and the people's protection units in Syria."
Although the Turkish authorities sometimes take action against al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda, according to the report, "Turkish interests do not always coincide with European priorities in the fight against terrorism."
Because of this difference of interest, "Turkey has become a major center for the transit of tens of thousands of foreign fighters who have poured into Syria to fight for extremist groups during the height of the Syrian civil war."
According to the intelligence report that at least 4,000 elements of Daqsh and al-Qaeda are Turkish citizens.
Active presence
In addition, Turkey has become home to tens of thousands of al-Qaeda sympathizers and sympathizers, while the two organizations have maintained an active presence throughout Turkey.
The Turkish government's non-interference approach "gives sufficient breathing space and freedom of movement to these organizations to work in the country," the report said.
The two organizations are using relative stability in Turkey to develop plans to attack Western targets, according to Dutch intelligence.
He said that the preacher "is planning to form and guide a secret war on the European continent."
The successive strikes of the international coalition against Damascus in both Syria and Iraq have led to a drastic regression of the organization.
However, the disappearance of thousands of elements of the organization has led to a great deal of controversy over the entities that provide them with a safe haven, primarily Turkey, which was their main crossing point from Europe to Syrian and Iraqi territory.
