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Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Osman Nuri Kabaktepe, a longtime friend and colleague of Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who was recently elected chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s provincial organization in Istanbul, has deep links to a Turkish terrorist group responsible for the 2003 attacks that killed 58 people in Istanbul. Based on court documents published today, March 1, 2021, Kabaktepe “was monitored by police intelligence over his alleged links to the Muslim Youth Organization (Müslüman Gençlik Örgütü), a group that functioned as a breeding ground for armed jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda.” A wiretap that monitored Kabaktepe’s communications as far back as 2011 was submitted to court as evidence that he “was linked to the Muslim Youth terror group.”
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