The Turkish Treasury and Finance Ministry on Thursday decided to freeze the assets of 17 individuals and four legal entities in the country with suspected links to the Islamic State (IS) group.
According to the official Gazette of Republic of Türkiye, the decision is based on reasonable grounds that they had provided financing for terrorist organisations.
The Turkish government designated the IS a terrorist organisation in 2013, blaming it for a spate of deadly attacks in the country since 2015.
Turkey’s southern border with Syria has been a major crossing point for Syrians and foreign fighters since a civil war broke out in Syria in 2011.
In 2016, Turkey launched its first cross-border operation in northern Syria, dubbed Operation Euphrates Shield, to eliminate the IS militants around the Jarablus and Azaz region. (Xinhua/NAN)
