{"id":415239,"date":"2018-04-03T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T09:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=415239"},"modified":"2018-04-03T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T09:55:54","slug":"kosovo-pm-haradinaj-visits-wives-abducted-turkish-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/04\/kosovo-pm-haradinaj-visits-wives-abducted-turkish-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo PM Haradinaj visits wives of abducted Turkish teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has paid a visit to the wives of six Turkish teachers who on March 29 were said to have been abducted and flown to Turkey by Turkey\u2019s notorious National Intelligence Organisation (M\u0130T) by collaborating with Kosovar groups in its intelligence units.<\/p>\n

Haradinaj reportedly expressed his regrets over the incident, saying that his government would take all necessary steps to prevent such an incident from happening again.<\/p>\n

On March 29, six Turkish nationals who work for a group of schools affiliated with the G\u00fclen movement were abducted by agents of the Turkish intelligence service operating in Kosovo.<\/p>\n

Hours later autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan announced that the victims had been brought to Turkey in a joint operation conducted by the Turkish and Kosovar intelligence services.<\/p>\n

The abductions sparked a political crisis in Kosovo. Kosovo Prime Minister Haradinaj on Friday dismissed the interior minister and the secret service chief.\u00a0Haradinaj also said on Thursday that \u201cthe entire operation \u2014 revoking their residence permits, illegal detention, emergency deportation and the secret extradition to Turkey of the six Turkish citizens from Kosovo territory \u2014 was conducted without my knowledge and without my permission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci also commented on the developments: \u201cToday we are disappointed because our relevant institutions, for reasons that remain to be clarified to the end, have failed to defend these principles related to the human rights of foreign nationals who live and work in our country. I am informed by the competent authorities after the event that six citizens were deported today to Turkey on the grounds that they did not have a residence permit in Kosovo.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, President Thaci changed his tone on Saturday and said he was informed by the intelligence service that \u201ctheir arrest and deportation is related to their illegal and dangerous activity in Kosovo.\u201d\u00a0He also hinted that he was not pleased with the dismissal of the interior minister and secret service chief.<\/p>\n

President Erdo\u011fan criticised PM Haradinaj on Saturday for dismissing the country\u2019s interior minister and intelligence chief on Friday over their active role in the illegal abduction of the six Turkish nationals. According to a\u00a0report<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by online news outlet Ger\u00e7ek G\u00fcndem, Erdo\u011fan also openly threatened him, saying, \u201cYou will pay the price for this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking at the local congress of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the Pendik district of \u0130stanbul, Erdo\u011fan said: \u201cYou saw it, our National Intelligence Organisation packed up six of these traitors in Kosovo and brought [them to Turkey]. Kosovo\u2019s prime minister dismissed the interior minister and the person in charge of intelligence. Now I am asking: You, the prime minister of Kosovo, on whose instructions did you do such a thing? Since when do you protect those who attempted to carry out a coup in Turkey? You will pay the price for this. Politics cannot be done by remote control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asking Haradinaj if he was aware that Turkey was the second country to recognize the independence of Kosovo, Erdo\u011fan said: \u201cYou will pay for harboring those people who tried to perpetrate a coup against Turkey.\u201d\u00a0Erdo\u011fan also said he was sure that Kosovars would hold Prime Minister Haradinaj accountable.<\/p>\n

Leutrim Syla, lawyer for the six Turkish nationals \u2014 Cihan \u00d6zkan, Kahraman Demirez, Hasan H\u00fcseyin G\u00fcnakan, Mustafa Erdem, Osman Karakaya and Yusuf Karabina \u2014 said on Friday that his clients would most likely face torture or ill treatment and harsh punishment if they are deported to Turkey.<\/p>\n

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, on Saturday tweeted that six Turkish nationals who were arrested by Kosovar police on Thursday and apparently spirited out of the country by Turkish intelligence later in the day would face the risk of torture and abuse in Turkey.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond the complete lack of due process, the six Turks who may have been sent from Kosovo to Turkey would face severe risk of torture and abuse. Whereabouts unclear,\u201d Roth said on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n

Turkey survived\u00a0a controversial military coup attempt\u00a0on July 15, 2016 that killed 249 people. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan pinned the blame on the G\u00fclen movement.<\/p>\n

Fethullah G\u00fclen, who inspired the movement, strongly denied having any role in the failed coup and called for an international investigation into it, but President Erdo\u011fan \u2014 calling the coup attempt \u201ca gift from God\u201d \u2014 and the government initiated a widespread purge aimed at cleansing sympathizers of the movement from within state institutions, dehumanizing its popular figures and putting them in custody.<\/p>\n

Turkey has suspended or dismissed more than 150,000 judges, teachers, police and other civil servants since\u00a0July 2016. Turkey\u2019s interior minister announced on December 12, 2017 that 55,665\u00a0people have been arrested. On December 13, the Justice Ministry announced that 169,013 people have been the subject of legal proceedings on coup charges since the failed coup.<\/p>\n

A total of 48,305 people were arrested by courts across Turkey in 2017 over their alleged links to the G\u00fclen movement, Interior Minister S\u00fcleyman Soylu said on Dec. 2, 2017.\u00a0\u201cThe number of detentions is nearly three times higher,\u201d Soylu told a security meeting in \u0130stanbul and claimed that\u00a0\u201ceven these figures are not enough to reveal the severity\u00a0of the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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