Anonymous Launches Massive Attack on Turkey for Supporting ISIS 40,000 Sites Down in 7 DaysBy Jay Syrmopoulos Anonymous Operations (@AnonOpsSE) December 21, 2015 According to a report by RT: The DDoS attack (measured in gigabits per second, or plainly how much traffic is being sent to a site) on Turkish DNS servers reached 40 Gbps, quite enough to shut down altogether any domain. The attack began on December 14, and came to a halt only a week later, on December 21. Turkish media alleged that 400,000 .tr domains were forced offline. The affected websites were able to return online only after Turkeys leading National Response Center for Cyber Events cut off all incoming international traffic to the .tr websites, thus shutting down national internet borders, completely and denying anybody outside the country access to Turkish websites, Anonymous pointed out. This mass cyber-attack is known to be the biggest so far with the intensity of slowing down the websites, ODT Computer Engineering Professor Attila zgit said as cited by Hurriyet Daily News. The hacktivists claim the attack on Turkey was conducted within the framework of the counterterrorist cyber operation #OpISIS. The basic message behind the attack is that Turkeys woes with the internet are set to repeat unless Ankara revises its policies towards Islamic extremists. The hacktivist group released a video announcing the campaign against the Turkish government. Greetings citizens of the world, We are Anonymous. As many of you have heard, Turkey is supporting Daesh by buying oil from them, and hospitalizing their fighters. We wont accept that Erdogan, the leader of Turkey, will help ISIS any longer. The news media has already stated that Turkeys Internet has been the victim of massive DDOS attacks. This lead Turkey to shut down its internet borders and deny anybody outside the country to access Turkish websites. Dear government of Turkey, If you dont stop supporting ISIS, we will continue attacking your internet , your ROOT DNS , your banks and take your government sites down. After the root dns we will start to hit your airports, military assets and private state connections. We will destroy your critical banking infrastructure Stop this insanity now Turkey. Your fate is in your own hands. We Are Anonymous We Are Legion We Do Not Forgive We do not forget. Expect us. #OpISIS #OpTurkey After the downing of a Russian Su-24 bomber, Russia turned the spotlight onto Turkey and their shady dealing with ISIS as part of a continued campaign to further destabilize Syria, with the goal of toppling the government of Bashar al-Assad. The Russian Defense Ministry has released satellite images showing convoys of ISIS oil tankers, trucking routes and has directly accused the son of Turkish President Erdogan of being one of the primary actors in facilitating the Islamic States illegal oil business in Turkey. Anonymous has previously targeted the Islamic State in numerous operations against the extremist group and has made clear that their assault upon the terrorist groups and its allies will continue. Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist, free thinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism. He is currently a graduate student at University of Denver pursuing a masters in Global Affairs. Jays work has been published on Ben Swanns Truth in Media, Truth-Out, Raw Story, MintPress News, as well as many other sites. You can follow him on Twitter @sirmetropolis, on Facebook at Sir Metropolis and now on tsu. Why is anon not attacking FUKUS/NATO/GCC for their crimes and support of terror ? and why has anonymous declared war on isis only after white westeners were killed in the paris attack ? Because anonymous is yet another cloaked tool of empire, cia built Exactly! The dead giveaway is that they are *very selective* on who they target for crimes against humanity. Same reason anon doesnt attack the head of the beast: City of London and Associates. Christian- you are half right. Anonymous is most likely a CIA operation. No one was killed in the Paris attack, though. It was just another shooting hoax. anon = nsa, same guys, you have to be a complete moron to fall for this crap 