Turkey freezes assets of ex-Yemeni president Saleh
Asset freeze also affects Saleh's son and four other former senior Yemeni officials
Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh
ANKARA
Turkey froze assets of Yemen’s ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh and four former senior Yemeni officials Thursday in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions until Feb. 27, 2017, according to the country’s official gazette.
The decision entered into force after it was published in the gazette Thursday following approval of the Turkish Council of Ministers.
The ex-president’s son Ahmed Ali Saleh, Abdullah Yahya al-Hakim, Abd al-Khaliq al-Huthi, Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh and Abdulmalik al-Houthi are among those affected by the freeze.
The UN Security Council on Feb. 24 renewed sanctions on the former Yemeni officials for allegedly threatening peace in the impoverished country.
Yemen has remained in turmoil since September 2014, when the Houthis and their allies overran the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other parts of the country, forcing President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and his government to temporarily flee to Saudi capital Riyadh.
