Ahmet S Yayla
Ahmet S. Yayla is the Director of the Center for Homeland Security at DeSales University and an Assistant Professor of Homeland Security. Dr. Yayla is also a member of the faculty at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies Program in Master's in Applied Intelligence. Additionally, Dr. Yayla is a research fellow at the George Washington University Program on Extremism.
Dr. Yayla is a 20-year veteran of the counterterrorism and operations department in the Turkish National Police and served as the chief of counterterrorism in Sanliurfa, Turkey between 2010 and 2013. He earned his Master's Degree and Ph.D. in the United States. Dr. Yayla has published both scholarly works and written or co-written numerous articles related to counterterrorism and homeland security. Yayla is the co-author of the recent book ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate.
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Dr. Yayla is a 20-year veteran of the counterterrorism and operations department in the Turkish National Police and served as the chief of counterterrorism in Sanliurfa, Turkey between 2010 and 2013. He earned his Master's Degree and Ph.D. in the United States. Dr. Yayla has published both scholarly works and written or co-written numerous articles related to counterterrorism and homeland security. Yayla is the co-author of the recent book ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate.
twitter: @ahmetsyayla
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334256498_Turkish_ISIS_and_AQ_Foreign_Fighters_Reconciling_the_Numbers_and_Perception_of_the_Terrorism_Threat/stats
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2019.1628613?scroll=top&needAccess=true
http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/573/html
https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-reina-nightclub-attack-and-the-islamic-state-threat-to-turkey
A table descends to your tent, Jesus’s table.
Expect to see it, when you fast, this table spreads with other food better than the broth of cabbages.” — Mevlana J. Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Dr Ahmet Yayla
Dr. Ahmet Yayla, Assistant Professor; Director, Center for Homeland Security
The month of Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims comparable to the season of Lent, is a time of devotion to God through fasting, spiritual and physical cleansing, self-discipline, and charity.
Nevertheless, these struggles are part of the religion, too. As the Prophet Muhammad said: “If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place.”
Even while facing a difficult situation like the coronavirus pandemic, there should always be a positive side, reminding us to once again protect and care for ourselves, communities, and one another.
On this occasion, let’s pray for our families, the DeSales community, our nation, and humanity to seek refuge in God from the worst of diseases, and do our best to extend our hands to the needy with the spirit of Ramadan.
http://wp.desales.edu/dsu-daily/2020/05/04/ramadan-reflections-at-desales-dr-ahmet-yayla/?utm_source=DSU+DAILY+MASTER+LIST+2019-2020&utm_campaign=1c4a41ae43-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_28_12_28_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_936886a251-1c4a41ae43-105227825
However, this historical trend does not necessarily mean that terrorists are winning. The most important step after this point should be translating success on the battlefield to a long-term victory, which will require short and long-term security policies and rigorous, bitter diplomacy in collaboration with the international community. Keys to gaining the upper hand will include reaching out to vulnerable populations to prevent future terrorist recruitment, unraveling ongoing propaganda and recruitment structures, better counterterrorism intelligence, and vigorous public engagement with Salafist jihadi ideology.
https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/terrorism-study/perspective-a-holistic-approach-to-preventing-and-countering-foreign-fighter-terrorist-threats-in-the-long-run/
By Ahmet S. Yayla
Aug. 9, 2017 7:14 p.m. ET
4 COMMENTS
Islamic State’s plan to blow up a commercial jet out of Sydney last month was “one of the most sophisticated plots that has ever been attempted on Australian soil,” police said last week. For reasons that aren’t yet clear, the terrorists aborted the attack, and police are confident the bomb would not have made it through airport security. Still, terrorists managed to acquire plastic explosives and the components needed to set it off—all shipped by airmail from Turkey. The Australian authorities discovered the plan only when, nearly two weeks later, they received a tip from a foreign intelligence service.
Make no mistake: Islamic State jihadists will continue trying to carry out spectacular terrorist attacks in the West. ISIS has lost control of Mosul, Iraq, where an estimated 30,000 of its fighters were killed. Now it is being pushed out of its putative capital, Raqqa, Syria. As it begins to look less like a traditional state and more like an insurgency, ISIS fighters will try to mobilize sympathizers around the world.
Last month, for instance, ISIS affiliates in Turkey released the “Lone Wolf’s Handbook,” a manual of 60-some pages, with dozens of illustrations, that explains the most efficient way to make a bomb or drive a truck into pedestrians. Such attacks are meant to prove that ISIS still exists and reinforce its bragging rights as the meanest, most fearsome warriors for Islamism. They’re also meant to dominate the news, particularly in the West, to help recruit future jihadists.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/isis-airmail-the-bomb-shipped-from-turkey-to-australia-1502320475
Case in point: We still don’t know what was recovered from the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone after it was unlocked by a third party for the FBI and whether the attacker had communicated with other terrorists prior to the mass shooting.
And Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the attackers in Paris, joined ISIS simply because he was very close friends with other members of the ISIS Belgian cell; not because he was ideologically tied to the terrorist organization.
You might think that these and the many so-called lone wolf terrorists we have seen since then who have blown up children at a concert in Manchester, or driven through crowds in Nice, in Berlin, on London’s bridges, and in Lower Manhattan, get radicalized by lurid jihadist snuff films and radical Islamist propaganda on social media sites. But you would be wrong.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pulling-the-plug-on-the-isis-virtual-caliphate?via=ios
Erdogan wants to confront the Kurds, not the Islamic State. Outsourcing the battle to Ankara will endanger America.
By Colin P. Clarke, Ahmet S. Yayla | December 31, 2018, 10:01 PM
Apart from taking Turkish talking points at face value, there is a fundamental problem with this calculation. Ankara has often demonstrated a reluctance to take on the Islamic State directly, preferring instead to focus its energy and resources on countering the Kurds and Erdogan’s opposition.
Ankara has often demonstrated a reluctance to take on the Islamic State directly, preferring instead to focus its energy and resources on countering the Kurds and Erdogan’s opposition.
For years, Turkey has been playing a double game. Erdogan’s main objective is to prevent Syrian Kurds from consolidating more territory and establishing a corridor parallel to the southern Turkish border. Eradicating the Islamic State’s presence in Syria—and its networks within Turkey—is a secondary priority that has often been ignored entirely.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/31/the-united-states-cant-rely-on-turkey-to-defeat-isis-kurds-syria-ypg-erdogan/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348418954_Erdogan's_Sinister_Game_in_Libya_Construction_Corruption
The IHH has found itself fulfilling the needs of al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the government of President Tayyip Erdogan, who himself has played a dual role in the fight against terrorism in Syria and Iraq. The scope of the IHH’s activities cannot be explained simply by its declared budget and resources. The IHH has served as a key humanitarian player in the Middle East region, collaborating with internationally recognized NGOs or the United Nations, yet without doubt – and despite public denials -- also serving as an ideological enabler of terrorist organizations. It is time to halt the illicit activities and connections of the IHH by listing it as a terrorist entity until at least the organization clearly and openly disconnects itself from terrorist groups and stops acting as an intermediary for jihadists.
https://www.ict.org.il/Article/2397/IHH#gsc.tab=0
is punctuated by brutal practices – including floggings, torture and beheadings. Defections were the result of exposure to extreme brutality, disgust over the slave trade, observations of deep hypocrisy–a total mismatch between the words and deeds of IS. Charges of corruption and complaints about battlefield decisions that produced unnecessary deaths in their own ranks were also causes of disillusionment . Our informants all had come to hate IS and warn others not to join what they gradually came to see as a totally disappointing, ruthless and un-Islamic organization.
by AHMET S. YAYLA
As a ceasefire suddenly brings a pause to nine months of fighting for control of Libya’s capital, Turkish President Erdogan’s promise of military aid and even boots on the ground to the besieged UN-backed Tripoli government appears in a new light: not becoming involved in an endless war but perhaps bringing it to an end, with an improved strategic position.
https://investigativejournal.org/erdogans-libyan-adventure-turkey-russia-gas-pipelines-and-missiles/
(Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2020), 272 pp., US $ 52.95 [Paperback], ISBN: 978-3-6439-1275-6. Reviewed by Ahmet S. Yayla
‘Militant Islam’ vs. ‘Islamic Militancy’ focuses on overlooked and understudied questions of radical Islamic movements and the distinctive factors of such groups by considering theoretical and practical frameworks. Throughout this edited volume, the authors focus their analyses on discourses on radical Islam, political Islam, Islamic extremism, and religious violence. They do so by asking questions about what people are discussing when they refer to Salafism, Jihadism, and Islamic terrorism in order to try to overcome discrepancies in these terminologies.
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/customsites/perspectives-on-terrorism/2020/issue-3/yayla.pdf
https://investigativejournal.org/the-strange-case-of-perincek-erdogan-and-the-russia-triangle/
https://twitter.com/ahmetsyayla/status/1171915933964800000?s=20
What he neglected to mention is that it was Turkey’s actions, or perhaps the lack thereof, that helped fuel the rise of the Islamic State in the first place. The two most commonly cited factors leading to the growth of the Islamic State are the Syrian civil war and the government of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and its persecution of Sunni Arabs in Iraq. But another significant part of this story is the negligence exhibited by the Turkish state.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/12/turkeys-double-isis-standard/#
http://perconcordiam.com/isis-in-turkey/
علّقت الولايات المتحدة مشاركة تركيا في البرنامج الخاص ببناء وتشغيل أحدث نسخة من الطائرة المقاتلة إف-35 وقد تفرض أيضا عقوبات اقتصادية على أنقرة، لكن الرئيس التركي رجب طيب أردوغان رفض التراجع أو التخلي عن فكرة صفقة منظومة الدفاع الصاروخي الروسية إس-400 التي فجرت الأزمة.
وقال أردوغان لمجموعة منتقاة من الصحفيين في إسطنبول قبل أسبوعين لدى تسلم تركيا الدفعة الأولى من مكونات المنظومة الصاروخية إس-400 "بغض النظر عن التحالفات السياسية والعسكرية لتركيا مع الغرب، لا نزال نتلقى أكبر تهديدات من الغرب، سواء السياسية أو الاقتصادية أو الثقافية، أو بجميع السبل."
https://isisfiles.gwu.edu/concern/reports/4t64gn166?locale=en
https://icct.nl/app/uploads/2021/01/Handbook-Ch-13-Yayla-final.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334256498_Turkish_ISIS_and_AQ_Foreign_Fighters_Reconciling_the_Numbers_and_Perception_of_the_Terrorism_Threat/stats
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2019.1628613?scroll=top&needAccess=true
http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/573/html
https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-reina-nightclub-attack-and-the-islamic-state-threat-to-turkey
A table descends to your tent, Jesus’s table.
Expect to see it, when you fast, this table spreads with other food better than the broth of cabbages.” — Mevlana J. Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Dr Ahmet Yayla
Dr. Ahmet Yayla, Assistant Professor; Director, Center for Homeland Security
The month of Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims comparable to the season of Lent, is a time of devotion to God through fasting, spiritual and physical cleansing, self-discipline, and charity.
Nevertheless, these struggles are part of the religion, too. As the Prophet Muhammad said: “If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place.”
Even while facing a difficult situation like the coronavirus pandemic, there should always be a positive side, reminding us to once again protect and care for ourselves, communities, and one another.
On this occasion, let’s pray for our families, the DeSales community, our nation, and humanity to seek refuge in God from the worst of diseases, and do our best to extend our hands to the needy with the spirit of Ramadan.
http://wp.desales.edu/dsu-daily/2020/05/04/ramadan-reflections-at-desales-dr-ahmet-yayla/?utm_source=DSU+DAILY+MASTER+LIST+2019-2020&utm_campaign=1c4a41ae43-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_28_12_28_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_936886a251-1c4a41ae43-105227825
However, this historical trend does not necessarily mean that terrorists are winning. The most important step after this point should be translating success on the battlefield to a long-term victory, which will require short and long-term security policies and rigorous, bitter diplomacy in collaboration with the international community. Keys to gaining the upper hand will include reaching out to vulnerable populations to prevent future terrorist recruitment, unraveling ongoing propaganda and recruitment structures, better counterterrorism intelligence, and vigorous public engagement with Salafist jihadi ideology.
https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/terrorism-study/perspective-a-holistic-approach-to-preventing-and-countering-foreign-fighter-terrorist-threats-in-the-long-run/
By Ahmet S. Yayla
Aug. 9, 2017 7:14 p.m. ET
4 COMMENTS
Islamic State’s plan to blow up a commercial jet out of Sydney last month was “one of the most sophisticated plots that has ever been attempted on Australian soil,” police said last week. For reasons that aren’t yet clear, the terrorists aborted the attack, and police are confident the bomb would not have made it through airport security. Still, terrorists managed to acquire plastic explosives and the components needed to set it off—all shipped by airmail from Turkey. The Australian authorities discovered the plan only when, nearly two weeks later, they received a tip from a foreign intelligence service.
Make no mistake: Islamic State jihadists will continue trying to carry out spectacular terrorist attacks in the West. ISIS has lost control of Mosul, Iraq, where an estimated 30,000 of its fighters were killed. Now it is being pushed out of its putative capital, Raqqa, Syria. As it begins to look less like a traditional state and more like an insurgency, ISIS fighters will try to mobilize sympathizers around the world.
Last month, for instance, ISIS affiliates in Turkey released the “Lone Wolf’s Handbook,” a manual of 60-some pages, with dozens of illustrations, that explains the most efficient way to make a bomb or drive a truck into pedestrians. Such attacks are meant to prove that ISIS still exists and reinforce its bragging rights as the meanest, most fearsome warriors for Islamism. They’re also meant to dominate the news, particularly in the West, to help recruit future jihadists.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/isis-airmail-the-bomb-shipped-from-turkey-to-australia-1502320475
Case in point: We still don’t know what was recovered from the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone after it was unlocked by a third party for the FBI and whether the attacker had communicated with other terrorists prior to the mass shooting.
And Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the attackers in Paris, joined ISIS simply because he was very close friends with other members of the ISIS Belgian cell; not because he was ideologically tied to the terrorist organization.
You might think that these and the many so-called lone wolf terrorists we have seen since then who have blown up children at a concert in Manchester, or driven through crowds in Nice, in Berlin, on London’s bridges, and in Lower Manhattan, get radicalized by lurid jihadist snuff films and radical Islamist propaganda on social media sites. But you would be wrong.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pulling-the-plug-on-the-isis-virtual-caliphate?via=ios
Erdogan wants to confront the Kurds, not the Islamic State. Outsourcing the battle to Ankara will endanger America.
By Colin P. Clarke, Ahmet S. Yayla | December 31, 2018, 10:01 PM
Apart from taking Turkish talking points at face value, there is a fundamental problem with this calculation. Ankara has often demonstrated a reluctance to take on the Islamic State directly, preferring instead to focus its energy and resources on countering the Kurds and Erdogan’s opposition.
Ankara has often demonstrated a reluctance to take on the Islamic State directly, preferring instead to focus its energy and resources on countering the Kurds and Erdogan’s opposition.
For years, Turkey has been playing a double game. Erdogan’s main objective is to prevent Syrian Kurds from consolidating more territory and establishing a corridor parallel to the southern Turkish border. Eradicating the Islamic State’s presence in Syria—and its networks within Turkey—is a secondary priority that has often been ignored entirely.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/31/the-united-states-cant-rely-on-turkey-to-defeat-isis-kurds-syria-ypg-erdogan/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348418954_Erdogan's_Sinister_Game_in_Libya_Construction_Corruption
The IHH has found itself fulfilling the needs of al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the government of President Tayyip Erdogan, who himself has played a dual role in the fight against terrorism in Syria and Iraq. The scope of the IHH’s activities cannot be explained simply by its declared budget and resources. The IHH has served as a key humanitarian player in the Middle East region, collaborating with internationally recognized NGOs or the United Nations, yet without doubt – and despite public denials -- also serving as an ideological enabler of terrorist organizations. It is time to halt the illicit activities and connections of the IHH by listing it as a terrorist entity until at least the organization clearly and openly disconnects itself from terrorist groups and stops acting as an intermediary for jihadists.
https://www.ict.org.il/Article/2397/IHH#gsc.tab=0
is punctuated by brutal practices – including floggings, torture and beheadings. Defections were the result of exposure to extreme brutality, disgust over the slave trade, observations of deep hypocrisy–a total mismatch between the words and deeds of IS. Charges of corruption and complaints about battlefield decisions that produced unnecessary deaths in their own ranks were also causes of disillusionment . Our informants all had come to hate IS and warn others not to join what they gradually came to see as a totally disappointing, ruthless and un-Islamic organization.
by AHMET S. YAYLA
As a ceasefire suddenly brings a pause to nine months of fighting for control of Libya’s capital, Turkish President Erdogan’s promise of military aid and even boots on the ground to the besieged UN-backed Tripoli government appears in a new light: not becoming involved in an endless war but perhaps bringing it to an end, with an improved strategic position.
https://investigativejournal.org/erdogans-libyan-adventure-turkey-russia-gas-pipelines-and-missiles/
(Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2020), 272 pp., US $ 52.95 [Paperback], ISBN: 978-3-6439-1275-6. Reviewed by Ahmet S. Yayla
‘Militant Islam’ vs. ‘Islamic Militancy’ focuses on overlooked and understudied questions of radical Islamic movements and the distinctive factors of such groups by considering theoretical and practical frameworks. Throughout this edited volume, the authors focus their analyses on discourses on radical Islam, political Islam, Islamic extremism, and religious violence. They do so by asking questions about what people are discussing when they refer to Salafism, Jihadism, and Islamic terrorism in order to try to overcome discrepancies in these terminologies.
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/customsites/perspectives-on-terrorism/2020/issue-3/yayla.pdf
https://investigativejournal.org/the-strange-case-of-perincek-erdogan-and-the-russia-triangle/
https://twitter.com/ahmetsyayla/status/1171915933964800000?s=20
What he neglected to mention is that it was Turkey’s actions, or perhaps the lack thereof, that helped fuel the rise of the Islamic State in the first place. The two most commonly cited factors leading to the growth of the Islamic State are the Syrian civil war and the government of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and its persecution of Sunni Arabs in Iraq. But another significant part of this story is the negligence exhibited by the Turkish state.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/12/turkeys-double-isis-standard/#
http://perconcordiam.com/isis-in-turkey/
علّقت الولايات المتحدة مشاركة تركيا في البرنامج الخاص ببناء وتشغيل أحدث نسخة من الطائرة المقاتلة إف-35 وقد تفرض أيضا عقوبات اقتصادية على أنقرة، لكن الرئيس التركي رجب طيب أردوغان رفض التراجع أو التخلي عن فكرة صفقة منظومة الدفاع الصاروخي الروسية إس-400 التي فجرت الأزمة.
وقال أردوغان لمجموعة منتقاة من الصحفيين في إسطنبول قبل أسبوعين لدى تسلم تركيا الدفعة الأولى من مكونات المنظومة الصاروخية إس-400 "بغض النظر عن التحالفات السياسية والعسكرية لتركيا مع الغرب، لا نزال نتلقى أكبر تهديدات من الغرب، سواء السياسية أو الاقتصادية أو الثقافية، أو بجميع السبل."
- Dynamics of effective international cooperation against terrorism: Facilitators and barriers;
- Law enforcement response to terrorism in different countries and regions;
- Emergency management lessons for Homeland Security.
On the first topic on the role of international organizations, the barriers for cooperation and their solutions are explored. With respect to the second topic, several country’s legislative efforts against terrorism, the level of terrorism, experienced threat, and how law enforcement agencies fight terrorism in their respective states are handled. The third topic includes evaluations of the response and recovery operations that are implemented after terrorist attacks in order to enhance emergency management and homeland security policies and procedures as well as the integration of crisis and consequence management activities.
The articles in this publication have been categorized in five parts:
- International Police Cooperation
- National Approaches to Terrorism
- Responding to Terrorism
- Terrorism Emergency Management
- Closing Remarks
This book can be a useful source to better understand and respond to the terrorism threat.
This article studies different social aspects of terrorists and terrorist organizations in an effort to better deal with terrorism, especially in the long run. The researcher, who also worked as a Police Captain at Turkish National Police Anti-Terrorism Department, seeks solutions to today's global problem by studying both literature and a Delphi examination of a survey of 1070 imprisoned terrorists. The researcher through his examination of the findings of the data presented that terrorism is a social phenomenon with criminal consequences that needs to be dealt by means of two dimensional approaches. The first is the social dimension of terrorism and the second is the criminal dimension of terrorism. Based on this, the researcher constructed a conceptual model which addresses both of these dimensions under the titles of long-term solutions and short-term solutions
http://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/8786
Gilly, T. A., Gilinskiy, Y., & Sergevnin, V.A., “The Ethics of Terrorism Innovative Approaches from an International Perspective (17 Lectures)” Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD. Springfield, Illinois, USA, 2009.
Was published in 2009 in Surveillance and Border Control on the NATO Frontier
http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/understanding-terrorism-analysis-of-sociological-and-psychological-aspects
Terör örgütleri, eleman temininden propogandaya, siyasi eğitimden, silahlı eğitime, mensuplarının barınmasından, iaşelerinin sağlanmasına, haberleşme giderlerinden, ulaşım giderlerine, eylemler için gerekli patlayıcı silah ve mühimmatın, temininden bunların nakliyesine kadar geniş bir alanda parasal desteğe ihtiyaç duymaktadırlar. Elbetteki bu finansal desteği de en kolay ve hızlı yöntemler ile sağlamak teroristler için çok önemlidir zira terör faaliyetleri devamlılık arzeder ve devamlılık arzeden bu faaliyetlerin sürekli finanse edilmesi gerekmektedir. Bu bağlamda, terör örgütleri faaliyetlerinin finansmanına gelince, büyük ölçüde organize suç örgütleri gibi hareket etmekter ve kendi ideolojileri adına gerektiğinde de şiddet ve cebir kullanarak kendilerine finans bulmaya çalışmaktadırlar.
Terörizm ve ekonomiden bahsedildiğinde de genel olarak teröristlerin veya başka terör örgütlerinin finansmanları anlaşılmakta olup, teröristlerin ekonomik olarak hedef aldığı ülkelere ve o ülke vatandaşlarına verdikleri ekonomik zararlar biraz geri planda ve perde arkasında kalmaktadır. Fakat, konu bir bütün olarak ele alındığında, belki terörün hedef aldığı ülke ve toplumlara ekonomik olarak verdikleri zararlar terörün finasmanın önüne geçmektedir. Bu açıdan terörün finasmanı ve ekonomi ile ilişkilerini geniş olarak ele almak önem arz etmektedir. Terorizm ve ekonominin üç önemli açıdan ilişkileri bulunmaktadır. Öncelikle terorizm ve teroristlerin ekonomik olarak hedef aldıkları ülke ve topluma verdikleri zarar, daha sonra oluşturdukları ekonomik kaosun kendi çıkarları için kullanılması ve son olarakda terör örgütlerinin operasyonlarını sürdürmek için finansman ihtiyaçları ve bu ihtiyaçları karşılarken organize suç örgütleri ile yaptıkları işbirlikleri.
https://www.desales.edu/center-for-homeland-security/conference
https://investigativejournal.org/interview-with-ahmed-yayla-filmed-in-washington-d-c/
https://youtu.be/dghdQGlRqro
Course number : F656 Spring 2018
https://olligmu.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&int_class_id=3127
House of Saud: A Family at War
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09m53py
We debate whether ISIL can be defeated, where their support comes from and how to stop them.
For former Turkish counterterrorism police chief Ahmet Yayla, support for the group transcends territorial control.
"They have a solid ideology when it comes to reaching out to their supporters and the people who support them ideologically," says Yayla, who is also a fellow at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism. "So, it doesn’t matter from their perspective whether they’re losing or not."
In this UpFront special, an international panel of analysts examines and debates whether ISIL are on the decline, where they get their financial and ideological support from, and how to stop them.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2017/06/upfront-special-isil-170623103755796.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z8jnLgBjio
He tells his criminology students that they need to know the history of the culture and the motives of the organization. They need to understand the terrorists by reading their literature and viewing their videos.
Which is what Yayla, a counterterrorism scholar and a professor at George Mason University, was doing in March when he came across a disturbing video on Telegram, an app popular with ISIS members.
The short, stark video opens with a shot of a note written in Arabic and English proclaiming, “We are still here.” An ominous chant in Arabic promises deadly violence.
The video camera then tilts up to reveal the bustling Antwerp Central train station in Belgium.
It was the same chant, the same style of video and posted to the same video channel that preceded an attack in Istanbul that killed 39 people and wounded 70 at the Reina Nightclub.
Yayla, who was chief of counterterrorism for Turkish police forces in Ankara and Sanliurfa for 20 years, said he knew the video was no hoax—“these guys don’t fool around,” he said—and contacted Belgian authorities who sprang into action.
Arrests were made involving two terrorist cells, and several planned ISIS operations were disrupted, according to European reports. Yayla said his effort “saved time for police to look for [the terrorists]. We definitely saved lives.”
In addition to monitoring terrorist activity posted to social media, Yayla’s specialty is interviewing ISIS defectors. His latest book (with Anne Speckhard) is called “ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate.”
https://www2.gmu.edu/news/425811
http://www.publicnow.com/view/213407C9E95E3BE3F35E31A9F5348052027E69DC?2017-05-24-01:31:18+01:00-xxx9721
Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. is the Deputy Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Criminology,
Law And Society at George Mason University. He Formerly served as Professor and the Chair of the Sociology Department at Harran University Şanlıurfa, Turkey and before that as Chief of Counter-terrorism and Operations Division for the Turkish National Police and Chief of Police in Şanlıurfa. Dr. Yayla earned both his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Criminal Justice and Information Science from the University of North Texas in the United States. Dr. Yayla's research focuses mainly on terrorism, radicalization and countering violence extremism (CVE).
https://www.spreaker.com/user/8085756/a-briefing-on-turkey-and-its-isis-proble
https://avemariaradio.net/audio-archive/church-and-culture-january-14-2017-hour-2/
TURKEY AFTER THE JULY COUP ATTEMPT
September 14, 2016
Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE)
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-turkey-july-coup-attempt/
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA14/20160914/105312/HHRG-114-FA14-Wstate-YaylaA-20160914.pdf
Turkey’s July Coup Attempt: “A Gift from God” to a new Authoritarianism
The July 15, 2016 unsuccessful “coup” attempt in Turkey happened in the midst of exceptionally stressful times when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was going through both domestic and international crises which are essential to understand and better analyze how the so-called coup came about. In fact, as Erdogan himself addressed his supporters at the Ataturk airport just a few hours after the coup attempt, he called the coup “a gift from God” and later it became clear—that it provided the rationale for solving his many troubles and most importantly, the perfect opportunity to completely wipe out his growing opposition as he quickly grabbed authoritarian rule at a level he would never be able to attain through democratic means.
I will be presenting about our research through ICSVE, International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism with Dr. Anne Speckhard at the
Countering Violence Extremism Symposium, (Disrupt. Reimagine. Redefine.)
Name of our presentation is:
“Disrupt, Disengage, Re-Direct: Tackling Terrorism from the Ground Up”
Our panel is at 2:30 pm-3:15 pm on April 6, 2016 in the Hemisphere Suite A at Ronald Reagan building.
The details can be seen here:
http://cvesymposium.com/speaker/ahmet-s-yayla-ph-d/
Its declaration of a caliphate and its glorification of violence in pursuit of its aims have drawn adherents across the socioeconomic spectrum, from the United States and Europe to the Islamic world. Who are the people being recruited as ISIS militants, and why do they join? This expert panel will examine the allure of ISIS in Europe, Turkey, and the Arab world and effective strategies to stem its growth.
http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2016/03/11/world-policy-air-ep-58-deadly-interactions
The tepid ceasefire in Syria that began at the end of last month has been ruptured by numerous violations on both sides. On today's episode of World Policy On Air, Ahmet S. Yayla, chairman of the Department of Sociology at Harran University in Şanlıurfa, Turkey, explains the connections between the continuing violence and the historically porous border between Syria and Turkey.
Follow the discussion online using #ISISDefectors following @NewAmericaISP.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase by credit card.
Participants:
Dr. Anne Speckhard
Director, International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE)
Co-Author, ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate
@AnneSpeckhard
Dr. Ahmet Yayla
Deputy Director, International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE)
Co-Author, ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate
@ahmetsyayla
Moderator:
Peter Bergen
Vice President, New America
@peterbergencnn
http://www.westminster-institute.org/announcements/yayla/
Ahmet S. Yayla
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Register: Here
Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. is co-author of the just released book, ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate. He is Deputy Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) and is also Adjunct Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. He formerly served as Professor and the Chair of the Sociology Department at Harran University in Turkey. He is the former Chief of Counterterrorism and Operations Division for the Turkish National Police with a 20-year career interviewing terrorists.
His work was primarily concerned with terrorist and related activities of ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, Hezbollah, the PKK, and other global terrorist organizations and he was responsible for several successful operations against the above-listed terrorist organizations. Dr. Yayla designed and administered counter-terrorism and intelligence activities and operations for precautionary measures in city of Sanliurfa, located at the Turkish-Syrian border and at the borders of the current ongoing war-zone in Syria.
Dr. Yayla’s research mainly focuses on terrorism, radicalization, countering violence extremism (CVE) and the Middle East. He has earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees on the subject of terrorism and radicalization at the University of North Texas. He has authored and co-authored several articles and books on the subject of terrorism and violence including First Responders’ Guide to Professionally Interacting with Muslim Communities: Law Enforcement, Emergency and Fire Fighters, Understanding and Responding to Terrorism: A Complete Model to Deal with Terrorism and Terrorism: A Global Perspective.
Last week, Turkey’s military staged a messy and failed coup that many opponents of President Tayip Edorgen suspect was anticipated by the leader for political ends. On today’s episode of World Policy On Air, Ahmet S. Yayla of Goerge Mason University and former Chief of Counterterrorism and Operations in the Turkish National Police discusses the extent to which the army underestimated Erdogan’s support among the Turkish people.
Subscribe to World Policy On Air on iTunes today.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/27-counterterrorism-minimal-use-force-w-dr-ahmet-yayla/id1453907332?i=1000488456324
U.S.-Turkey Relations: Turkey's Lobbying Efforts
The Investigative Journal hosted a conference focusing on U.S.-Turkey relations. In this portion, panelists focused on Turkey’s lobbying efforts within the United States.
Please see my presentation at C-SPAN
https://www.c-span.org/video/?466235-1/us-turkey-relations-turkeys-lobbying-efforts
“Dr. Yayla was definitely a big help with getting the connections,” she says. “The center opened up a broad range of avenues for all of us; there were state police, local police, federal agencies. Being able to talk to them and network was a great opportunity, and I think it’s going to do wonders in the future for other students.”
https://www.desales.edu/news-events/news/article/2020/10/02/internship-with-the-department-of-homeland-security-investigations
Harut Sassounian writer, presenter, political analyst of Armenian origin living in the US directly accuses the Turkish president of being a supporter of international terrorism and is seeking his referral to the international court.
"Last week, I reported that President Erdogan's office had sent a letter to the leaders of religious minorities in Turkey, asking them to sign it and send it back to the President. In that letter, Erdogan falsely claimed that Turkey was alone at the forefront of the fight against international terrorism. "
"Contrary to Erdogan's assertions, there have been dozens of reports in the international media proving that Turkey was at the forefront of those helping the ISIS terrorists in Syria and Iraq.
Ahmet S. Yayla is someone who has first-hand knowledge of the Turkish government's support for ISIS, having been the Head of the Counterterrorism Service and related businesses in Turkey from 2010 to 2013, conducting criminal investigations in the Turkish province of Sanliurfa since 2013. by 2014.
https://www.elora.gr/portal/arxeio/5094-omologia-vomva-apo-proin-aksiomatoyxo-tis-tourkias-o-erntogan-gigantose-tin-tromokratia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho0GFQRgIow
تصدر الرئيس التركي رجب طيب أردوغان نشرات الأخبار مؤخرًا نتيجة دوره المثير للجدل في دعم أحد أطراف الصراع الليبي إلى جانب المرتزقة والجهاديين السوريين، ولكن وراء العناوين الرئيسية ما زال هناك المزيد من الأحداث الجارية، وتشير ثلاث حوادث حرجة حدثت مؤخرًا إلى أن أردوغان يستعد للقيام بخطوة مهمة، ربما تصل إلى تحول سيغير تركيا إلى الأبد.
التطور الأول الذي أحدثه أردوغان- والأكثر غموضًا في نفس الوقت بالنسبة لغير الأتراك- يتعلق بتمكين أردوغان التدريجي لإدارة المخابرات التابعة للشرطة الوطنية التركية (TNP)، ففي 17 يناير 2018 أصدرت رئاسة الجمهورية التركية مرسومًا رئاسيًا جديدًا يرفع مكانة مديرية المخابرات التابعة للشرطة الوطنية التركية.. هذا المكتب مسئول عن تنفيذ عمليات استخباراتية ضد المنظمات الإرهابية.
ويجب عدم الخلط بين مخابرات الشرطة «TNP» والمخابرات الوطنية التركية «MIT»، التي تشرف على كل من المخابرات المحلية والدولية ويقودها هاكان فيدان، المقرب من أردوغان، على المدى البعيد.
http://aman.dostor.org/show.aspx?id=29641
DeSales Üniversitesi Ulusal Güvenlik Merkezi Direktörü Ahmet S. Yayla, ‘Erdoğan, Erdoğanistan’ı mı hazırlıyor?‘ başlıklı makalesinde Erdoğan’ın Türk devletini Politik İslam’a dönüştürmenin sinyallerini verdiğini belirtiyor.
Son dönemde yaşanan üç önemli gelişmeyi sıralayan Yayla, ilk gelişme olarak Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü’nde gidilen değişime işaret ediyor:
https://ahvalnews.com/tr/erdogan/erdogan-erdoganistani-mi-hazirliyor
More: https://twitter.com/ahmetsyayla/status/1166478577174532096?s=20
"Turkey extends influence in the occupied north of Syria" via @Tagesspiegel
"The entire administration of these cities is led by #Turkey, it is a kind of mandate," says Ahmet Yayla.
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/region-um-asas-tuerkei-weitet-einfluss-im-besetzten-norden-syriens-aus/23649788.html
The findings were summarized in the Government and Technology Services Coalition’s Homeland Security Today online journal, and authored by Georgetown University professor Ahmet Yayla, who during the past four years has interviewed over 40 ISIS defectors in Turkey while conducting on the ground research along Syria’s border.
Yayla’s findings entitled, To Truly Fight Terror, Counter Salafist Jihadist Ideology First, confirm that:
“The majority of the ISIS shaykhs (imams and teachers) who were preaching in ISIS-controlled territories and schools were from Saudi Arabia.”
https://madhousenews.com/2018/04/new-study-provides-yet-more-proof-of-saudi-state-sponsorship-of-isis/
ISLAMIC State terrorists are hiding across Turkey after “easily” being able to smuggle their way across the border from Syria, it has been claimed.
European nations are being warned to turn their attention back to Turkey which is becoming a haven for jihadis as the government focuses on fighting Kurdish forces, experts warned.
European reluctance to hold Erdogan to account for human rights violations and reticence to rock the boat since Turkey agreed to take in Europe-bound migrants from the Middle East has created a dangerous situation, it was said.
Former police chief Ahmet Yayla, a professor of criminology, law and society at George Mason University warned the west to be vigilant over its neighbour, where a blind sport currently exists.
He said: “Unfortunately this is the case, the Europeans are not taking this seriously enough.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/923582/Turkey-safe-European-warning-ISIS-terror-threat
This puts it on the table: Turkish arms supplies to Syrian rebel groups have not only knowledge, but carried out at the behest Erdoğan. after the testify of refugees to the United States former police chief of Şanlıurfa, Said ahmet Springs, should it off 2012 have acted to hundreds of transport, on the military supply for the Islamists organized.
Officially, they were as supplies of the Turkish IHH, International humanitarian aid organization, declared, the same organization, the Gaza flotilla in 2010 set up and provoked the violent incident with Israeli soldiers. Yayla testifies beyond, that IS fighters were able to move freely in the Turkish-Syrian border area, that they received medical care in hospitals in Şanlıurfa, met collusion with the local administration and enjoyed the protection of the MIT. The neighboring city of Gaziantep was a veritable hotbed of IS- and Al-Nusra-people.
https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Von-dubiosen-Geschaeften-mit-Islamisten-und-der-Rolle-Erdogans-und-Putins-3936767.html
https://neu-presse.de/en/von-dubiosen-geschaeften-mit-islamisten-und-der-rolle-erdogans-und-putins/
Ahmet Yayla Professor of Criminology and former counter-terrorism police chief has long warned about terror attacks in his homeland.
His report, called 'The Reina nightclub attack and the Islamic State threat to Turkey', claims there “may be as many as 2,000 hardcore fighters loyal to the ISIS inside Turkey”.
Last New Year’s eve, a rampaging gunman carried out a bloody assault on the Reina nightclub leaving 39 dead and a further 71 injured.
And today Turkish security forces detained 12 people with suspected ISIS links during anti-terror operations in Adana who were said to be planning a similar attack.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5215532/new-europe-terror-fears-with-300-brit-isis-fanatics-on-loose-in-turkey-as-cops-smash-istanbul-new-years-eve-death-plot/
August 29, 2017
Ahmet Yayla
https://www2.gmu.edu/news/444721
A rash of “lone wolf” attacks by ISIS followers has resulted in the deaths of scores of innocent victims, including at recent incidents in Barcelona, London, Brussels and Kaspiysk, Russia.
George Mason University criminology professor Ahmet Yayla, a former Turkish chief of counterterrorism, said the terrorists are recruited by friends and family and are following several ISIS playbooks, including the 2017 “Lone Wolves Handbook.”
Here he describes three ways of defusing future lone wolves:
· Counterterrorism units must upgrade their intelligence activities. Suspected ISIS sympathizers’ connections should be closely watched on a prioritized list. This helps intelligence officers to easily understand if a suspect is planning an attack.
· “Solid and sincere intelligence and information sharing is key,” Yayla said, not only domestically among law enforcement and intelligence agencies, but internationally.
· “Salafist jihadi content on the internet and social media must be blocked and wiped off,” he said. ISIS is a “virtual caliphate,” recruiting remotely with propaganda and training videos. The terror-training eBook “How to Survive in the West” has been downloaded nearly 1.5 million times, typically on dark net sites and social media sites popular with jihadists. Remove it and remove much of the threat, he said.
Ahmet Yayla can be reached at ayayla@gmu.edu.
For more information, contact Buzz McClain at 703-727-0230 or bmcclai2@gmu.edu.
About George Mason
George Mason University is Virginia’s largest public research university. Located near Washington, D.C., Mason enrolls 35,000 students from 130 countries and all 50 states. Mason has grown rapidly over the past half-century and is recognized for its innovation and entrepreneurship, remarkable diversity and commitment to accessibility.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/08/24/chatapp-belooft-privacy-maar-geeft-terroristen-ruim-baan-12327134-a1570889
Existem outras formas de avaliar se o Estado Islâmico diz a verdade ou se mente sobre um atentado, além das redes sociais.
Van que atropelou pedestres em Barcelona é removida por guinchoDireito de imagemREUTERS
Image caption
Em Barcelona, autores do ataque usaram uma van alugada na cidade.
"Não devemos aceitar o que o EI afirma, mas sim investigar mais profundamente e tratar de encontrar evidências", adverte à BBC Mundo Ahmet S Yayla, ex-chefe de contraterrorismo da polícia da Turquia.
Os procedimentos incluem buscas nos domicílios dos suspeitos de realizar os ataques, em seus computadores, e-mails e telefones celulares, assinala Yayla, que atualmente é investigador do departamento de criminologia, direito e sociedade da Universidade George Mason, nos Estados Unidos.
Em diferentes casos, os investigadores descobriram mensagens entre os acusados de realizar ataques no Ocidente e membros do EI no Oriente Médio.
Também foram divulgados vídeos e áudios de autores de atentados jurando lealdade a Al Baghdadi, líder do EI.
Caminhão que atropelou e matou pessoas em Nice, na França, em 2016Direito de imagemAFP
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O atropelamento massivo, como em Nice, se converteu em um novo modus operandi do Estado Islâmico no Ocidente.
Algo que chama a atenção é que a organização evitou reivindicar certos ataques que lhe foram atribuídos, como o de Edward Archer, um homem que baleou um policial na Filadélfia, Estados Unidos, no ano passado, jurando lealdade ao EI.
Por outro lado, às vezes se levanta dúvidas se um atentado foi programado diretamente pelo EI ou apenas inspirado por este, mas os especialistas negam que se possa fazer tal distinção.
"O Estado Islâmico claramente ordenou seus seguidores a levarem a cabo este tipo de ataque. Então, se alguém realiza um ataque em nome do EI de uma forma similar, está basicamente seguindo ordens da organização terrorista", afirma Yayla.
E conclui: "Posso ver claramente que a série de ataques na Espanha são ataques do EI".
http://www.bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-40986301
Heroes in obscurity.
MICHAEL RUBIN / AUG. 14, 2017
ISIS brought a reign of terror down upon the territory it controlled. And while many more residents welcomed and, indeed, collaborated with the group, others resisted. Some have written about the tremendous risks that local and often anonymous journalists took to transmit the reality of life under ISIS to the outside world.
Until now, little has been known about how those arrested and tortured by the Islamic State resisted their captors. A new International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism report, “The ISIS Prison System: Its Structure, Departmental Affiliations, Processes, Conditions, and Practices of Psychological and Physical Torture,” changes that.
Utilizing interviews with dozens of ISIS defectors, returnees, and former prisoners, it traces the process and mechanism by which various organizations within the Islamic State would arrest prisoners, process them, interrogate them, and seek to indoctrinate them. After all, while ISIS would execute many prisoners and use their murders to produce grizzly recruitment videos, many other detainees would serve sentences and be subject to re-education. Many sought to deceive their captors. In one instance, cited by the report:
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/terrorism/resisting-isis-from-within/