Onsite Training of NPOs on FATF Rec 8 requirements in Turkiye
2023-01-17 - 2023-01-18 | Turkey, Turkey
Today, the EU Global Facility organises its very first activity targeted at Turkish Not-for-Profit Organisations in Istanbul ????????!
This marks the very first onsite capacity building activity with representatives of the civil society in Turkiye, who are coming not only from Istanbul, but also from Ankara and other regions of the partner country.
Centered around the compliance with international requirements of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Rec 8 on NPOs, this workshop is co-organised with the local Turkish NPO –TUSEV and the Global NPO Coalition on FATF.
It involves EU GF experts from the UK, the Netherlands and Georgia, who will spend two days covering topics ranging from consequences of the non-risk based implementation of Rec 8, risk assessment, self-regulation and joint advocacy strategies, among others.
This workshop is part of a series of technical assistance activities carried out by the EU Global Facility in Turkiye, as agreed as part of the workplan designed with the Turkish authorities in 2022.

LEA Financial Investigations Training in Turkiye
2023-01-18 - 2023-01-20
A second activity kicks off in Turkiye this week. Along with our workshop for NPOs organised in Istanbul, the EU Global Facility is delivering a training for law enforcement officials in Ankara.
Held under the title “Recognising the nexus between Criminal and Terrorist networks and how they utilise profit from both legal and Illegal Activities”, the training involves different actors from the penal chain including MASAK (Financial Intelligence Unit), Police, Gendarmerie and the Judiciary.
Alongside our Key Expert on Law Enforcement Liam Ennis, two Irish experts will tackle topics related to terrorism in the financial context, namely understanding structures of terrorist groups, links between terrorist business models and crime and lone actor terrorism, among others.
The activity will actively involve the participants, who will be tasked with solving a fictitious case study related to terrorism, crime and money laundering in a designated context.
This workshop is part of a series of technical assistance activities carried out by the EU Global Facility in Turkiye, as agreed as part of the workplan designed with the Turkish authorities in 2022.
