Turkey does not place a high priority on fighting Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadists and as a result foreign fighters are able to travel through the country into Syria, US intelligence chief James Clapper said Thursday.
"Public opinion polls show in Turkey they don't see ISIL as a primary threat,” Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.
According to the director of national intelligence, the Turkish government had “other priorities and other interests" and was more concerned with Kurdish opposition and the country's economy.