13 December 2019

Turkey has added exiled Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan to its most-wanted terrorist list

Turkey has added exiled Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan to its list of most-wanted terrorist, offering $1.7 million reward for helping to track him down, according to the Turkish interior ministry. Dahlan, former head of Fatah’s security forces in Gaza, is searched on charges of perpetrating the 2016 coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, together with the followers of exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen. Search and detention warrants have been issued for the Palestinian, who is also wanted by the Palestinian Authority through Interpol. According to Turkish authorities, Dahlan would have transferred money to coup plotters on behalf of the Emirati government. The Palestinian has always denied the allegations. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has accused him of being “an Israeli agent” and of having tried to replace Mahmoud Abbas with the support of Saudi Arabia and UAE. For his part, in an interview with MBC Masr, Dahlan qualified Erdogan as “delusional and mentally unstable, wishing to resurrect the Ottoman Empire in order to occupy the Arab World” and accused him of stealing gold from Libya’s Central Bank.

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