Ankara: Turkey has imposed financial sanctions on some 350 people and dozens of organisations that have been blacklisted by the United Nations Security Council for alleged links to al-Qaeda or the Taliban.
The move, made public late Thursday, would freeze any assets those individuals or groups may have in Turkey.
The sanctions come at a time when Turkey has been accused of supporting groups linked to al-Qaeda which are launching attacks on Syrian President Bashar Assad`s regime. Turkey denies backing those groups.
This month, Turkey`s Interior Minister Muammer Guler said police had arrested 129 people in 104 operations targeting groups linked to al-Qaeda groups since 2012. He did not give further details.
Militants tied to al-Qaeda carried out attacks in Istanbul in 2003 that killed 58 people.
