Fight against financing of terrorism and financial measures

Terrorism had an important place on the global agenda within the 9/11 attacks to New York City, USA and it has controversial concepts of the international law. In recent years, most common method is the prevent the finance of the terrorism. It has important to examine the financing part, which is the most important basis of the phenomenon of terrorism which constitutes a major problem for all countries, and to evaluate the methods used for financing and the financial methods to be used in prevention. While terrorist organizations provide funding, the association uses legal or illegal means such as drug dealing, arms smuggling, etc. According to the methods used, there is a tendency to hide the source of the earnings or hide the money transactions. This trend raises money laundering activities and tax havens. Activities such as money laundering and tax evasion provide great advantages to terrorist groups and those who provide resource support to these groups through the use of tax havens, so that the origin of the transferred resources can be hidden and the transfer point of the origin can be hidden. Therefore, concepts such as money laundering, corruption, tax terrorism and tax havens are important in terms of the formation and transfer of financial resources in terms of terrorism financing. In this study, these concepts and their relations with terrorist financing have been examined and their effects on terrorism financing have been revealed. In addition, legal and financial measures were specified within the scope of the struggle.