Definitions of terrorism

Main opposition social democratic Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal Kılılçdaroğlu on Jan. 24 paid a visit to the monument in memory of journalist Uğur Mumcu on the 24th anniversary of the latter's assassination. The murder still remains unsolved, though it had been claimed by two separate organizations: The Islamic Movement and Kurdish Hezbollah. 

No country is safe from terror incidents, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Jan. 1 after the deadly terror attack on an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people and wounded more than 60.

Reverting to old methods in the fight against terrorism is meaningless, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said, commenting on the deadly terror attack in Istanbul's Reina nightclub, which claimed 39 lives in the early hours of Jan. 1. 

Directorate of Religious Affairs Head Mehmet Görmez released a statement on Jan. 1 condemning the deadly attack at a nightclub in central Istanbul, which claimed 39 lives, describing the act as "savage and horrific." 

Security checks indicate Serbia is not under threat from terrorism, "but the alert level has nevertheless been raised for preventive reasons."

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said this on Monday.

Twelve people were killed in a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday, mown down by a terrorist in a big truck. Elsewhere in Germany, if it was an average day, another ten people were killed in or by motor vehicles. They are all equally dead; the only difference is the motivation of the man in the truck.

Global Terrorist Data, GTD, a map presenting all the terrorist attacks that took place in Europe between 1970 and 2015, reveals the number of attacks in Balkan countries and those that were never resolved.

The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, START, at the University of Maryland, drew up the GTD using a wide definition of terrorism.

Montenegro this week will sign the Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe's Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism, which parliament will then adopt in the following months.

The document obliges Montenegro to introduce new measures to prosecute and punish terrorism, especially in the terms of citizens planning to travel abroad to join extremist groups.

In its annual country reports on terrorism released on Thursday, the US Department of State notes that throughout last year Bulgaria continued to deport people it considers threats to national security and increased extradition of suspected foreign terrorist fighters.

Counterterrorism analysts believe that the parcel bomb located at the house of the President of Court of Appeals, Isidora Poga, in Cholargos, was probably sent by a third generation of terrorist organization Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, since all evidence points to a new cycle of attacks which started after November 2015 when “Popular Fighters” claimed responsibility for the bombing attack at H