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2021-03-02 The Grand Turk
New Court Documents Expose Turkish President Erdoğan's Islamic Terror Links
[PJ] New evidence linking Turkish president Erdogan to Islamic terrorists has just emerged.

Osman Nuri Kabaktepe, a longtime friend and colleague of Erdogan, who was recently elected chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s provincial organization in Istanbul, has deep links to a Turkish terrorist group responsible for the 2003 attacks that killed 58 people in Istanbul.

Based on court documents published today, March 1, 2021, Kabaktepe "was monitored by police intelligence over his alleged links to the Muslim Youth Organization (Musluman Genclik Örgutu), a group that functioned as a breeding ground for armed jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda." A wiretap that monitored Kabaktepe’s communications as far back as 2011 was submitted to court as evidence that he "was linked to the Muslim Youth terror group."

The Muslim Youth Organization first emerged around 1985 and was led by a "radical" named Tahir Gul. Its primary goal is "to set up a religious shariah state and dismantle the secular and democratic structure of the country’s governance."

More telling of its intentions and motives, three of the Muslim Youth Organization’s members were not only arrested in connection with a 2003 al-Qaeda terror attack in Istanbul—where 58 people were killed during the bombings of two synagogues, the British Consulate General, and an HSBC bank—but they had met with then al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and "were part of the five-member secret Shura Council (consultative body) that was involved in every step of the planning of the attacks. They were in the senior leadership of al-Qaeda’s Turkish network and were sending candidates for arms and explosives training in Afghanistan."

Although Kabaktepe ran this very same Muslim Youth Organization/jihadi breeding ground, "Kabaktepe appears to have escaped the long arm of the criminal justice system and law enforcement"—and has now been rewarded as chairman of Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party’s provincial organization in Istanbul—"thanks to the political cover provided by Erdogan," his longtime sponsor (pictures of them together go back to the early 1990s).

The report explains:
Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-02 04:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda 

#1 Quel surpris!
Posted by CrankyOldYankee 2021-03-02 08:09||   2021-03-02 08:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Yip-pee!
Posted by Thumper Grundy7457 2021-03-02 08:12||   2021-03-02 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Unexpectedly™
Posted by magpie 2021-03-02 10:04||   2021-03-02 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 this has been known for years. Yet we are still his "ally".
Posted by Chris 2021-03-02 11:38||   2021-03-02 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Make Istanbul Constantinople Again
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2021-03-02 12:11||   2021-03-02 12:11|| Front Page Top










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