The CIA warned Turkey about possible terrorist attacks against the Russians – RBC

The market in Istanbul, 2012

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As reported in Thursday, the newspaper Haberturk, Turkey’s Interior Ministry has dispatched to 81 provinces prevention, based on the information the CIA. According to US intelligence officials, three Palestinians and one suicide bomber belonging to the group “Islamic State”, prepared the attack on Russian tourists in Turkey.

The publication calls the names of suspected terrorists, the Palestinians – Dzhamas Dagmash Muhammad Mumtaz, Aumann Nofal Ahmed Abdallah, Rafet Abbas. According to the CIA, the Palestinians may be implicated in the terrorist attack on October 31 as a result of the collapse of the Russian aircraft Airbus A321 killed 224 people.

According to Haberturk, Turkey is proscribed in Russia, “the Islamic state” terrorist Abu Khalid, also known as Jamal NASA. According to US intelligence, which leads edition, Abu Khalid contacted in Turkey with a certain man who had planned the attack.

After the Turkish air force shot down on the Turkish-Syrian border of the Russian Su-24 bomber, Russia imposed against Turkish sanctions, including bans on tour operators and travel agents selling trips to Turkey. From December 1 to Turkey were banned charter flights. From 1 January 2016 Russia enters Turkey visa regime.

As stated on December 9, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, decided to close for the Russians resorts in Egypt and Turkey – it is not “the machinations of the government, not evil will of the authorities, is the question of the security of our citizens ».

At the beginning of December it became aware of the warning of imminent terrorist attacks against tourists from Russia, which from the Russian Federal Security Service received the Thai authorities. This Prevention reported Reuters, citing a social network released to the official warning of the FSB aimed at Thai security services. The document dealt with the entrants in Thailand in the period between 15 and 31 October ten Syrians, four of whom went to the island of Phuket, and two – in Bangkok. As indicated in the prevention of the Federal Security Service, all related to the “Islamic state».

8 December the head of the Thai Bureau of Interpol Apichart Suribunya said that there is no reliable information that the terrorists “Islamic state” can conduct attacks Thailand.