US “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” meeting with Turkish Pm Erdogan and intel chief Hakan Fidan behind closed doors.

US “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” meeting with Turkish Pm Erdogan and intel chief Hakan Fidan behind closed doors. HT:TodaysZaman.

A number of photos were leaked on Friday in a Turkish daily, and document meetings attended by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Yasin al-Qadi -- a Saudi Arabian businessman who is on the US Treasury Department's “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” list -- and the Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan.

The photos published by daily Karşı were reportedly leaked from a corruption investigation which has been stalled since Dec. 25, 2013 by officials appointed by the government.

The meetings featured in the photos allegedly took place on April 14, 2012, when, according to a Cabinet decision, al-Qadi was forbidden to enter Turkey, and before the UN had removed his name from its list of supporters of the terrorist al-Qaeda network.

Karşı reports that the meeting took place in the Haliç Congress Center in İstanbul.

The pictures depict al-Qadi initially arriving at the congress center and entering a room. Some time later, Erdoğan comes in the building and the two start to talk.

Finally, Hakan Fidan, chief of the National Intelligence Agency (MİT), comes into the frame of the security camera and hurriedly enters the meeting room. The meeting lasted for three hours, but the investigation files do not include any information as to what the three men talked about.Read the full story here.

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