Africa is revolting against Ankara’s interventions, Mauritanians reject Turkish support for the Brotherhood

Muhammad Yosry

On Friday, September 4, 2020, hundreds of citizens gathered in front of the Turkish embassy in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, condemning Ankara’s interventions in Africa.

The demonstrators demanded the necessity of stopping Turkey’s interference in the internal affairs of Africa.

They also issued a statement confirming that the days showed the malicious intentions of the Turks, stressing that they seek to destroy and destroy the world.

The statement said: Mauritanians gathered today in front of the Turkish embassy; Objection to the recent Turkish interventions in Africa in each of the following countries (Libya, Mauritania, Tunisia, etc.) and also because of its continuous support for extremism and terrorism, in addition to supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, which is classified as a terrorist group.

The statement added, In this regard, we call for an urgent and unconditional end to the plundering and plundering of wealth, and to interfere in the internal affairs of African countries, and to stop supporting extremist groups, parties and militias.

Turkey began to search for influence in Turkey early on through charitable work and aid distribution, which the Mauritanian government sensed the danger since 2016.

Nouakchott had granted a license to open the “Burj Al Alam” schools of the service movement led by the Turkish preacher and thinker “Fethullah Gulen” in mid-2004, and “Gulen” schools remained the only representative of Turkish diplomacy in Mauritania until 2011, the date of the opening of the first Turkish embassy in Nouakchott. .

At the end of 2016, the Turkish government made an official request to Mauritania to hand over a number of Gulen supporters to accuse them of the failed coup attempt, as Turkey pressured Nouakchott to withdraw licenses, close schools, and hand them over to the Turkish embassy.

The Mauritanian government responded in 2018 to withdrawing the licenses of Gulen schools and transferring their ownership to Mauritanian businessmen, without harming their staff, a number of whom had benefited from the right of political asylum in Mauritania.

In early 2018, the Mauritanian government felt the danger of the Turkish infiltration, with the country’s former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, designating the Brotherhood as a terrorist group.

In January 2020, the “Arab African Center for Development in Mauritania” organized a symposium entitled “Foreign Interventions in the Arab World … Turkish Intervention in Libya as a Model”, in which a large number of media professionals and jurists participated, in conjunction with the launch of the activities of the “Peace in Libya” conference in the German capital. Berlin.

The participants criticized Turkey’s interventions in the Arab region, especially its military intervention in Libya, and emphasized that it destabilizes security and stability, and reflects its expansionist ambitions in Africa.

During the symposium, Ahmed Salem Ould Dah, Director of the Center and the Syndicate of Mauritanian Journalists, said: Turkey’s intervention in Libya came to meet the expansionist ambitions of the Turkish government, calling on Libyans to miss the opportunity for these intentions, to sit at the dialogue table, and to reject division.

Meanwhile, the Mauritanian writer and political analyst, “Pope Ould El-Tarad,” said that the slogans of freedom have become a pretext to perpetuate and legalize foreign interference in the Arab region, pointing out that these slogans were used on a large scale by various campaigns of the colonialists in various periods.

“Ould Al-Tarad” stressed that what the region is exposed to can only be described as “neo-colonialism,” referring to the Turkish intervention in Libya.

For his part, the Mauritanian writer and political analyst, Mustafa Muhammad Al-Mukhtar, held the terrorist Brotherhood organization responsible for the Turkish military intervention in Libya.

He added that the Brotherhood does not value their homelands as much as the interest of the international organization and the realization of its agendas, even if they are at the expense of the self-interest of this or that Arab country.

The Mauritanian writer and political analyst pointed to the danger of the media arms that justify the Turkish military intervention in Libya, and their hijacking of the minds of many young people and emerging generations.