Dr. Darko Trifunovic
(Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Copyright: https://erpic.org/portfolio-post/political-eastern-europe/
Reposted at RIEAS web site (www.rieas.gr) on 8 December 2018.
How Significant is Turkey’s influence in South-Eastern Europe?
We used to deal with Turkey and Turkish officials that they are type of Ataturk, basically, they are holders of Ataturk’s legacy. But with the “new generation”, with Tayyip Erdoğan, with Gülen and others, Grey Wolves as well as Muslim Brotherhood rise up in Turkey and as well in northern part of your island. The Muslim Brotherhood, of course, is a basic organization for all jihad. We are now facing a big misunderstanding, mainly coming from lack of knowledge from the West and the Western countries, because they do not call all these organizations Muslim Brotherhood but regionally they call them Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, etc. But it’s very well-known among us experts that basically Bin Laden, Zawahiri, Al Baghdadi, Tayyip Erdoğan and others, they are all members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Read more