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New Delhi Times
July 3, 2017
For a long time, Turkey was an inspiration of stability among Europe and the Middle East. However, the present state of the nation is caught in a whirl of great tension and overlapping security problem. According to the 2017 Global Peace Index finding that terrorism costs the country nearly $200 billion everyÃâà...
War on the Rocks
September 23, 2016
It was led by Airat Vakhitov (nom de guerre Salman Bulgarsky), who had been a prisoner at Guantanamo, transferred back to Russia and released “for lack of evidence” in 2004. A leading Islamic State recruiter, Vakhitov was captured by Turkish authorities after the Istanbul airport bombing. By the end ofÃâà...
Realnoe vremya
July 28, 2016
Earlier in this same prison there was another native of Naberezhnye Chelny — Airat Vakhitov, who currently resides in Turkey and was suspected of link with the organizers of the terrorist attack in Istanbul. He, unlike Mingazov, was not just 'got involved in radical ideas', but in the 1990s was the Imam of theÃâà...
Voice of America
July 28, 2016
With a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, scheduled for August, anxiety is high among one particular group of asylum-seekers in Turkey. Thousands of Russian-speaking Muslims fear a potential improvement in Turkish-Russian ties willÃâà...
Voice of America
July 13, 2016
The State Department named the two global terrorists Wednesday as Aslan Avgazarovich Byutukaev, who is also known as Amir Khamzat, and Airat Vakhitov, who has a number of aliases, including Salman Bulgarsky. Vakhitov, a Russian-speaking ethnic Tatar, was captured by U.S. forces in AfghanistanÃâà...
Voice of America
July 5, 2016
A source inside the small North Caucasus Muslim diaspora in Turkey told VOA that Airat Vakhitov, who spent two years in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility after he was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, was arrested Tuesday. VOA has no confirmation of his arrest from Turkey'sÃâà...
Newsweek
October 19, 2015
“Muslims in Russia have been frightened into silence by the repressive policies that have been methodically carried out throughout Putin's rule,” says Airat Vakhitov, a former imam from Russia's Tatarstan region, who was arrested in 2005 on what he says were trumped-up terrorism charges in Russia.
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