The terrorist attacks that took place in two different spots in London have been the second terror attack in London before June 8th elections. Recently, the number of terror attacks such as driving van or truck on people and attacking to people with the knife as in the last attack are increased. Compared to other attacks, it is harder to receive information about these kind of attacks because it does not require any preliminary preparation. The only way to prevent these attacks is to determine the people at the risk of a terrorist attack and monitor the movement of these people closely including their international movement and connection to organisations. This emphasises the importance of international cooperation in counter-terrorism one more time.

Another striking point in terrorist attacks that took place especially in West Europe is that terrorists grew up in European countries and are familiar to language and culture of these countries. One of the fundamental goals of these terrorists in the attacks is to destroy themselves with nihilist impulses while destroying and damaging the lifestyles, cultural heritage and societies that they were raised in. This situation puts forward that counter-terrorism should not only be analysed from security perspective but also from psychosociological perspective and it is required to create a comprehensive strategy including education systems, social and migrant policies.

As in the every kind of terrorist attack, we strongly condemn this terror attack and state that we are in solidarity with victims, their relatives, people and countries who suffer from terror.

Ayhan Zeytinoğlu

IKV Chairman