Erdogan uses emerging European political parties for influence – analysts

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Journalist Giulio Meotti and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are fighting for influence by supporting political parties in Europe. wrote For Israeli National News on Saturday.

Erdogan, accompanied by Foreign Minister Mevlt Avuolu, on June 5, met with Mustafa Karaday, chairman of the Bulgarian Rights and Freedoms Movement (MRF) at the Communications Directorate was announced in a statement. MRF is an important party in Bulgaria, 20 percent of Bulgaria in the European elections, won 10 percent in the national elections, Meotti said.

Meotti said that Nyans, a new party founded in Sweden in 2019, is suspected of having links with prominent Islamists in the country, and that its founder, Turkish-Swedish politician Mikail Yksel, has been accused of having links with the Gray Wolves. The party wants to criminalize Islamophobia.

Gray Wolves, a parliamentary ally of Erdans, is a youth movement of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and has been accused of involvement in various political assassinations of left-wing intellectuals and activists in the 1970s and 1980s. Several groups of European countries have moved to include it in the list of terrorists.

Meotti said that while the Nyans participated in the Swedish 2022 elections for the first time, the Dutch openly pro-Erdogan Denk party won three seats in parliament in the March elections.

The party was founded in Rotterdam, where Muslims make up 20 percent of the electorate and openly promote Erdogan’s views. Dutch journalist Kleis Jager explained Frances Le Figaro, in 2019. Denk is almost exclusively interested in issues related to Turkish society and rarely intervenes outside of them.

Politicians associated with Erdogan added that the newly formed Union of French Muslim Democrats (UDMF) has nominated a candidate to run in the regional elections in late June. The party also nominated pro-Erdogan candidates for the European elections, and its slogan was united against Islamophobia.

Meotti said that Europe was talking to Erdogan at the NATO summit these days. Instead, it must wake up and fight this Turkish attempt to infiltrate democracy.



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