The Turkish Islamic Jihad (TIJ) is an Islamic Jihad organization. The group has never publicly given a specific ideology, but their name implies a fundamentalist Islamic orientation. In their only public statement, the group claimed to oppose the efforts of both the
United States
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and
Egypt
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at the
Madrid Conference of 1991
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, whom they accused of attempting to “divide up the Middle East." In 1992 the Turkish Islamic Jihad claimed responsibly for the murder of an
Israel
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i diplomat and the bombing of an
Istanbul
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synagogue.
[Attempts by Rogue Regimes to Influence U.S. Policy: hearing before the Subcommittee on... - Page 70 by United States Congress] They are also believed to be responsibly for a series of murders against
Turkish journalists.
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Background
Although they have not claimed an attack since 1996 the Turkish Islamic Jihad was mentioned in the Iranian press as late as 2000 as one of a number of groups continuing to "carry out clandestine political and military activities." The group is thought to be inactive; however the Islamist movement continues to present a threat to Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. In Turkey in 1991 a car bomb occurred killing one US Air force sergeant and severely injured an Egyptian diplomat.["Seven Terrorist Organizations Active In Turkey," 1/29/2001, Turkish Daily News]
See also
*Islamist terrorism
Islamic terrorism (also known as Islamist terrorism, radical Islamic terrorism, or jihadist terrorism) refers to terrorist acts carried out by fundamentalist militant Islamists and Islamic extremists.
Since at least the 1990s, Islamist ...
*Religious terrorism
Religious terrorism (or, religious extremism) is a type of religious violence where terrorism is used as a strategy to achieve certain religious goals or which are influenced by religious beliefs and/or identity.
In the modern age, after the d ...
*Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (, ''Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn''), commonly known simply as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is a Palestinians, Palestinian Islamism, Islamist paramilitary organization formed in 1981.
P ...
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Anti-Zionist organizations
Antisemitism in Turkey