18 Jul 2017

Ambassador of Turkey in Botswana, Mr Ibrahim Mete Yagli says a year ago a group of soldiers attacked their Parliament to assassinate the president and the Prime Minister by bombing the Parliament buildings.

Speaking at a press briefing to mark a failed coup d’état, Mr Yagli said during that incident soldiers were also attacking innocent civilians killing more than 250 and wounding 2 000 people in a brutal attack.

He said it was an extreme mode of violence in the history of the Turkish Republic since it was established in 1923.

Ambassador Yagli said it was not a typical military coup, and that it was why they were trying to explain who the perpetrators were and what they were capable of.

He said the Gulenist Terror Organisation (FETO) was capable of a terrible plot against the state and their own people.

He added that the group was an international network and active in more than 150 countries around the world. He also noted that the group had schools, NGOs and commercial enterprises in some regions

Mr Yagli described FETO as a double faced organisation which might appear as concentrating on education and having commercial enterprises to support their schools and facilities spread out all over the world.

He said they also take care of the poor by giving scholarships to poor intelligent children in their schools.

Behind this, he said was moulding them for their terror aims. He said when the children mature and graduate, they infiltrate the critical state institutions such as  the army, police, judiciary and other security organs and continue contacts with their organisation.

Mr Yagli said they know that they were active in many African countries, and that the purpose was to warn countries about them. BOPA