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Turkish Government Reaches Final Decision to Freeze al-Qadi's AssetsBy Andrew Cochran
Today, the Turkish Government took the last step needed to affirm a decision years ago to freeze the assets of Yasin al-Qadi, who was designated on September 28, 2001, by United Nations Security Council following the U.S. Treasury's designation of him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan tried to unfreeze al-Qadi's assets in Turkey, going so far as to say that "I believe in him as I believe in himself" and pressing the Council of Ministers to appeal the freeze decision. But the Council of State rejected the appeal. Many of our Contributing Experts have posted on his alleged terrorist financing activities and the circuitous route of this final decision, beginning right after we opened in 2005. You can access all posts about al-Qadi on this special archives page, including posts about his friendship with Erdogan; his connections to Hamas; the collapse of the case against al-Qadi in Switzerland; and his role as an al Qaeda financial facilitator. Also see this excellent Forbes article on him. The story broke in Turkish on the Hurriyet website and was translated for me by a trusted source. You can read the English translation below. "On April 3, 2008, Turkey's Presidency of the Council of State rejected the appeal by the Turkish Council of Ministers to reverse its initial decision to freeze Saudi businessman Yasin al-Qadi's rights to own property and his assets in Turkey. The Council's decision blocks the final legal attempt by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to unfreeze al-Qadi's assets in Turkey. Prime Minister Erdogan had expressed that "he believed in al-Qadi as he believed in himself." Administrative Law Board of the Council of State had already overruled a directive last year that was issued by one of its lower divisions to repeal the Council of Ministers' rule on freezing al-Qadi's assets in Turkey. Reacting to this, al-Qadi had appealed to the Council of State to reverse its decision. The Council's rejection came after a closed-session of consultations today on al-Qadi's appeal.
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