Preventing Financing Of Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction bill passed by Turkey 

Preventing Financing Of Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction bill passed by Turkey 

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II –Internatioanal Relations

In news 

• The Turkish parliament passed a bill called “Preventing Financing of Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction”.
• It would increase the monitoring of civil society groups. 

Key takeaways 

• The Bill was passed following the 2019 report on Turkey prepared by the intergovernmental body Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meant to fight money laundering and terror financing.
• The bill consists of 43 articles and has made changes to seven laws on Turkey’s Law of Associations. 
• It is meant to keep Turkey from being blacklisted by the Paris-based watchdog of terror financing.
• The Bill gives the Turkish government the power to appoint trustees to NGOs, to suspend their activities, seize their assets and monitor their sources of funding.

• Critics believe that it violates the provisions under the Turkish constitution since it interferes with the right to freedom of association.