Relationships with his uncle’s network – What his wife says in her message
The word “repatriation” probably embellishes what happened to Imam Fethullah Gulen ‘s nephew , who was abducted in Nairobi, Kenya and forcibly deported to Turkey. There he is accused of being a terrorist and in all probability a trial parody will seal his already prescribed fate.
Without knowing the nephew ‘s relationship with his uncle and his movement , it does not take much to conclude that if someone’s last name is “Gulen”, their future will be rather ominous in Turkey. The reality is that this does not only apply to Turkey , but goes as far as Kenya. The nephew and his family had taken refuge there after 2016.
His wife, in fact, posted a video on May 20, in which she declared her husband missing and expressed her concern for his life and safety. The last time she saw him was on May 3. They both worked as teachers in Nairobi.
A few days later, on May 19 , the Turkish president declared: “We will soon announce the arrest of a very important member of FETO. It is already in our hands. ” The Erdogan regime disparagingly calls the Gulen movement FETO, which it accuses of being behind the failed 2016 coup.
It remains unknown whether the Kenyan government cooperated with the Turkish agents who carried out the abduction, or whether the operation took place under the nose of the authorities. For the record, it is worth mentioning two incidents: First, that in Kenya the Turks abducted Ocalan in 1999 (with the approval of the American and local authorities). Second, that the Kenyan government refused in 2016 to close six schools linked to the Gulen movement despite Ankara’s suffocating pressure.
This is not the first time that the Turkish secret services have carried out kidnappings abroad. Under Hakan Fidan’s administration, MIT, with increased jurisdiction and resources, launched a crackdown on members of both the PKK and the Gulen movement. It is indicative that MIT has established a special department that deals exclusively with the action of dissidents abroad. This was also supported by the persecuted self-exiled Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt. “MIT has already set up a team in the dark corridors of Ankara to coordinate the assassinations of key critics of Erdogan abroad.”
Apart from Africa and the Balkans, Ankara did not hesitate to spread its tentacles to the Old Continent, carrying out assassinations. Extensive research has shown that various Turkish services abroad “host” MIT agents , or are obliged to act on its behalf. This concerns diplomats, employees of DIYANET (responsible for religious affairs), TIKA (responsible for humanitarian aid abroad) and Turkish NGOs.
All of the above are obliged to collect information about Kurds, Turkish dissidents, Gulenists and human rights activists. Some of them are killed, others disappear and others are abducted. They are then transferred to Turkeywhere they are convicted in mock trials and then lost in Turkish prisons.
Unsurprisingly, MIT is cracking down on accusations, placing false witnesses, dictating decisions in trials against those whom Erdogan considers his enemies. It is now commonplace that the regime has extended its long arm to Europe for good. Turkish MIT agents living in European capitals, officially working in travel agencies, translation jobs, banks and mosques have turned the Old Continent into a privileged field of action.
According to an article in Der Spiegel magazine in January 2017, the German secret services informed the judges that at least 6,000 MIT agents and an incalculable number of their associates may be in the country. The French newspaper Le Monde has revealed that MIT has developed a huge network of agents in Europe in order to eliminate Erdogan’s enemies.
Even if Gulen’s nephew did not have a close relationship with his uncle Imam, the kinship is enough to turn Erdogan into his banner in this ruthless war with his former spiritual father. Gulen and Erdogan worked closely together until the final rupture.
Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, now calls his former spiritual son a dictator. And Erdogan is demanding by all means the extradition of the imam to Turkey, essentially his head on a painting.
