Turkish Hürriyet reports that Turkey’s intelligence helped Russia prevent the second major terrorist attack planned in Moscow after the Crocus terror attack. According to the newspaper, Turkey has transferred the information it has to Moscow, stating that the Wilayat Khorasan group, which is part of the Islamic State terrorist group, planned a major terrorist attack in one of the major trade centers of Moscow. Thanks to that information, it was possible to prevent terrorism, reports the Turkish newspaper.
Dates are not mentioned, what period of time we are talking about, but it is noteworthy that the information is “floating out” after the visit of Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan to Russia and his participation in the meeting of BRICS foreign ministers there, as well as after the meeting with the head of Russian intelligence, the secretary of the Security Council and even the Russian President Putin. : As I have had occasion to assess, those meetings of Fidan prove that Ankara is trying to achieve a certain “favor” of Moscow, against the background of the noticeable coldness that has been present in the relations between the two countries since last summer.
And now, after the meetings of Fidan, who by the way was the head of the Turkish intelligence until he was appointed the foreign minister of Turkey, information is published in the press of that country that Ankara helped Moscow to prevent a major terrorist attack by transferring the information it had. I should also note that the investigation into the terrorist attack in the Crocus concert hall in March confirmed data that the terrorists were trained in camps in Turkey. Has Ankara become more attentive to Russia since then, or did it simply get the price it expected this time by providing information about the planned terrorism?
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