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Malaysia deports three Turks amid UN fears of widening Turkish crackdown
[AlAhram] Malaysia said on Friday it had deported three Turkish men to Ankara over suspected links to a group blamed by ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for a failed coup last year. Human rights groups condemned the deportations and the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... said Malaysia's action raised serious concern for the safety of Turkish nationals in the region. Authorities detained school principal Turgay Karaman, 43, businessman Ihsan Aslan, 39, and academic Ismet Ozcelik, 58, last week, saying they posed a threat to national security. Rights groups said they were concerned the action had been taken against the men because of pressure from Turkey. At the time the men were detained, authorities did not say whether they were suspected of having ties to U.S.-based holy man Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... Malaysian Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said the three were deported on Thursday on suspicion of being involved in FETO, a group of Gulen supporters that the Turkish government also calls the "Gulenist Terrorist Organisation". The Malaysian police investigation found that the three men had been involved in FETO activities and were listed as individuals wanted by Turkish authorities, Khalid said. The Turkish government had also cancelled their travel documents, he said. "As such, their presence in Malaysia is invalid and their status declared as illegal im Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-13 |
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