TURKEY STALLING COUNTER MEASURES TO COMBAT TERRORISM FINANCING,MAY FACE OCED EXPULSION....
Turkey Given Four Months to Fix Terror Finance Law
Turkey was given a February deadline by the OECD’s Financial Action Task Force to tighten laws blocking the financing of terrorist groups or face suspension from the organization.Turkey needs to adopt legislation “to remedy deficiencies in its terrorist financing offense” and set up “a legal framework for identifying and freezing terrorist assets,” the Task Force, sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said on its website today at the end of a three-day meeting in Paris.Failure to do so by Feb. 22 will result in Turkey’s suspension, it said. The Task Force said it is “deeply concerned by Turkey’s continued failure to take action.”The group had warned in June it would “call upon its members to apply countermeasures” against Turkey if rules weren’t tightened by October. A terror financing bill drafted to address them is still held up in Turkey’s parliament. Exclusion by the Task Force could impede transactions with Western banks.A suspension would hurt Turkey’s reputation and “alert the international financial world, possibly causing some problems in transactions,” Nihat Ali Ozcan, a terrorism analyst at the Economic Policy Research Foundation in Ankara, said by telephone today. “However, since nearly half of the Turkish economy is not registered, tightening rules might also put the government under domestic pressure from some circles, even including its grassroots supporters.”

[ed notes:kurds have warned this move would give repressive gov more powers to single them out even farther then the already existing laws that target them(that is true),simply for being a kurd,but we know this isn't why akp stalls it..but rather because akp gov support for terrorist groups in balkans,bulgaria,  chechnya,dagastan and syria would be subject to outside secrutinity... Turkish Websites and Newspapers say Armed Groups and Spies ... Fethullah Gulen   Additional Omitted Points in CIA-Gulen ... - Boiling Frogs Post  Chechnya - Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post | Home of the Irate ... Teaching as CIA Cover–Gülen Charter Schools, Dan Burton, and ... Bulgarian Border Police Detain Chechen, Turkish Terrorists Chechen terrorists linked with Turkey: Russia  Bianet: Torture and Ill-Treatment on the Rise in Turkey, TİHV Report Cautions