Erdoğan’s Election Victory

On Sunday, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan triumphed in a runoff election for the Turkish presidency that international observers deemed free but not fair. Erdoğan, the two decades-long leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), defeated his opponent...

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen and CEP Senior Advisor Lucinda Creighton writes: "The Christchurch Call is a commendable initiative that can fulfill its initial promise. We cannot continue to sit back and hope the problem of online extremist media...

Uptick In Hamas Violence Coincides With Continued Hospitality By International Enablers

Last week, Israel’s Shin Bet security service announced it had foiled an attempted bombing in April by Hamas and arrested a suspect, Israeli-Arab citizen Muhammed Nadir Mahajneh. According to the indictment against Mahajneh, Hamas had recruited him...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "The real reason that Prevent could never gain traction within Northern Ireland is because there is a hierarchy of violent extremism which cannot be disturbed because of the political demographics and cultural...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "I would say it's a very significant operation because it really shows how deep the support networks for the Islamic State in Germany still run. It is a financial network that openly collected...

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Twitter Accounts Used To Spread Propaganda

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers located three Twitter accounts disseminating...

CEP Strategic Advisor writes: "The rumblings began before the book was even published. When the book came out in January though, Bergeaud-Blackler, no stranger to sensitive subjects, could not have anticipated the response. The denunciations came...

CEP Research Analyst Gregory Waters interviewed: "This attack occurred in an area outside Sukhnah that has, according to security forces, long been controlled by ISIS, for many years. The fact that they were in an area controlled by ISIS supports the...

Tech & Terrorism: Supreme Court Rulings Should Prompt Congress To Pass Section 230 Reforms

The rulings issued last week by the U.S. Supreme Court in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter Inc. v. Taamneh allowed an overly broad interpretation of the liability shield in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to stand, affording tech...

CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "In other ways, Lee Rigby’s murder was the kind of gruesome spectacle that al-Qaeda’s leadership would later warn against, but which Islamic State would make their hallmark. A gruesome spectacle, but a shoddy...