[KavkazUzel] The Turkish authorities are preparing for the deportation of a native of Dagestan, Ibragim Askerov, whom the Russian Investigative Committee has put on the wanted list for his involvement in the extremist organization At Takfir Wal-Hijra, sources said.| Originally they called themselves Jama'at al-Muslimin (Society of Muslims), but their Egyptian neighbours mockingly called them Excommunication and Exile. The introverted Takfir Wal Hijra faction of the split from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1960s. The extroverted “moderate” faction followed Ayman Al-Zawahiri into Al Qaeda. Takfir Wal Hijra consists of loosely affiliated cells which have committed acts of terror as far afield as Morocco and Holland. Cult-like, they require members to cut off all contact with their families. |
Askerov left for Turkey in January 2021, and was detained in the fall of the same year. He spent about four months in the deportation center, after which he was released. In August 2023, Askerov was detained again and again placed in a deportation center. Earlier, the Investigative Committee of Russia put Askerov on the Interpol wanted list, the telegram channel “Conscience of Dagestan” reported today.
Askerov previously received a residence permit in Turkey, but the authorities revoked it. “There is a decision to deport him. He applied for asylum and was refused everywhere. They offer to leave for a third country, but he does not have a valid passport. And he is wanted by Interpol,” the source was quoted as saying by “Caucasus. Realities” on August 11, 2023.
Turkish intelligence services registered Askerov as a person involved in an extremist organization who poses a threat to the country’s national security, another source said.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on November 1, 2022, six followers of the At Takfir Wal-Hijra* organization were detained in Dagestan, Moscow and Voronezh, and during a search, religious literature with extremist content was confiscated from them.
The organization "At-Takfir wal-Hijra" (Accusation of unbelief and hijra) appeared in Egypt and spread in the North Caucasus, especially in Kabardino-Balkaria in 1997-1998. Supporters of the organization belong to the Salafi movement in Islam and are distinguished by strict demands on fellow believers, says the Caucasian Knot material “ Kabardino-Balkaria: On the Road to Catastrophe. Preconditions for the armed uprising in Nalchik on October 13-14, 2005.”