Turkey to reward ‘terrorism denouncers’

ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities will offer up to 4 million lira in rewards for those who help a crackdown on “terrorists”, according to a new ruling published on Monday.
The decision comes after a surge in violence in the southeast between Turkish security forces and Kurdistan Workers’Party (PKK) Kurdish militants which have nullified a 2013 truce.
Under the government’s plan, informants’rewards will be based on the “value of the information in preventing terrorism crimes and catching the suspects,” said a statement in the official gazette, where all new legislation and government rulings are published.
Those who report the identity or location of a “suspected terrorist” anonymously will be awarded up to 200,000 Turkish lira as long as they as they are not involved in the “terrorism activity” that they report, it added.
But the award will be multiplied by 20 and increased to 4 million lira if the suspect is the leader of a “terrorist organisation” or the crime that is exposed is severe enough to cause “unrest”.