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Turkey’s Emerging Role As Sponsor of Global Terrorism
Turkey has failed in its bid for leadership of the Middle East. The key to stability in the Middle East exists in Cairo, not in Ankara
Ali Al Sharnoby * Canada Free Press
Cairo, Egypt—The Egyptian Foreign Office denounced the speech of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because he openly made the ‘Rabaa’ gesture, a gesture used by the Muslim Brotherhood. It’s a symbol used in protests after the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi. (Rabaa in Arabic means Forth) Erdogan appeared several times gesturing, he said it’s a symbol of oppression and injustice suffered by certain groups of the Egyptians.
Ambassador Badr Abdel Atty, spokesman of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, said the Ministry sent a strong message to the Turkish ambassador in Cairo and issued a formal statement expressing Egypt’s anger over Erdogan’s comments, which represent an insult to the will of Egyptian people, and belittles the reality of 30 million Egyptians who came out to demand the overthrow of the Brotherhood and President Morsi. Ambassador Atty said that there is a clear recognition by the world of the legitimacy of the June 30 revolution—with the exception of Brotherhood governments in Tunisia, Qatar and Turkey, who show their hostility to Egypt through their official statements, while Qatar is using al-Jazeera for falsifying the facts and spreading lies about Egypt.
Reliable sources with the Jemaah Islamiyah militant group in Egypt announced today the escape of a large number of the group leaders, including Asim Abdalmagd and Tarek Al-Zomor. Abdalmagd is responsible for the killing of 118 police officers and Al-Zomor participated in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. Both escaped to Turkey, with fake passports, after shaving their beards.
Mamdouh Youssef and his family, consisting of his wife and 6 children have fled to Turkey. He’s the head of the militant wing that killed former chief of the Egyptian parliament.
Islam Elghamry, former spokesman for the organization in Afghanistan, and the one who announced to the media that the group joined al-Qaeda to fight the Jews and Christians with Osama bin Laden, who also escaped to Turkey with his wife and 8 children.
Security sources said that this ‘great escape’ to Turkey raises questions about the relationship between Ankara and the militant organization’s leaders, who have had strong ties with Osama bin Laden and his follower al-Zawahiri. The role played by Erdogan against Egypt also raises questions about the amount of money spent on escape.
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