The consequences of tolerating jihadist terrorists

It has recently been revealed that the terrorist who featured in a propaganda video for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Hasan Aydın, who was seen with two kidnapped Turkish citizens, of which one was a soldier, was caught on April 2, 2012 and was released after eight months in prison.  

Aydın was tried together with İlhami Balı, the person in charge for borders for the organization, in an al-Qaeda case involving eight other defendants. The case, which opened in 2012 and ended in 2015, ruled Aydın should be sentenced to six years and three months in prison. 

It was determined that Aydın was running a mobile dealership in the southern province of Adana and had obtained phone lines using other peoples' identities to use for the communications of ISIL. 

In the same case file, there is information that Aydın had met Al-Qaeda's Syria administrator Marouf Ossi in Adana and had picnicked together. 

What I'm trying to draw your attention to here is that, while his trial was ongoing, Aydın was released at the end of eight months, on Dec. 3, 2012. 

Al-Qaeda is a terror network and it has carried out atrocious massacres in Turkey, and Aydın is a person who is known to be a member of this terror organization, who has forged telephone lines under other names so that members of the organization can communicate easily, and who has been able to meet the group's Syria commander in Turkey. 

Somehow the court had not taken into account his membership to a terrorist organization, and released him at the end of his eighth month in prison. This ruling was done in a country where people could be held in jail for years for even the most minimal of crimes. 

This is not the only time Aydın has been protected by...