The exiled Turkish journalists A. Bozkurt and Cevehi Guven are targets of the Turkish MIT, while they themselves are talking about Ankara's huge plan in Europe..
Freelance journalist Erkam Tufan Aytav claimed on his YouTube program on Wednesday that a German woman of Turkish origin was ordered by Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MİT) to execute journalists A. Bozkurt and Çevehi Güven, who are both living in exile in Europe.
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According to her unnamed source, the woman, who has links to the "Grey Wolves", an ultra-nationalist youth group linked to a far-right Turkish political party, was arrested in the UAE emirate of Dubai before she could carry out another alleged mission. , that of the assassination of Sedat Peker, who is an Archmafioso and former ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who later turned against him.
The United Arab Emirates police discovered in the woman's possession photographs and the addresses of Bozkurt's home in Sweden and Güven's home in Germany.
Saying he finds it disturbing how far the Turkish government is willing to go to silence critical voices abroad, Bozkurt on January 26 tweeted: “Whether this new allegation is true or not, I know for a fact that I have been in targeted by Erdogan and his mafia regime for years."
The background behind the MIT assassination plot
In 2022 the pro-government daily Sabah published secretly taken photos of exiled journalists, including Bozkurt and Guven, and revealed their home addresses on its front page.
The two journalists had previously stated that MİT had engaged in a manhunt against them.
According to Bozkurt, the Turkish government is trying to intimidate all Turkish journalists reporting from exile by targeting them, but he vowed not to bow to their pressure.
Bozkurt is the former journalist of Today's Zaman newspaper and the founder of the Nordic Research Monitoring Network, which exposes the Turkish government's relations with radical and extremist groups, the illegal activities of the Turkish intelligence service and government corruption.
Guven is an investigative journalist in exile whose YouTube videos in which he talks about the corruption and shady dealings of the Turkish government attract hundreds of thousands of viewers.
The former editor of the now-defunct Nokta magazine, Güven, along with the magazine's director, Murat Çapan, were sentenced to 22 years and six months in prison in 2017 on charges of “inciting armed rebellion against the Turkish government.
Bozkurt and Guven are among hundreds of Turkish journalists and government opponents who were forced to flee Turkey after the failed coup in July 2016 to avoid government arrests of people with alleged links to the Gulen movement.
Journalists who fled Turkey after the coup attempt to avoid prison for false involvement in acts of terrorism have set up their own news agencies and become the main source of news for some Turks in a country where 90% of the national media they belong to pro-government businessmen who toe the official line, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
According to Turkey's Transnational Repression: 2022 in the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) review, after the coup attempt, President Erdogan's long arm has reached tens of thousands of Turkish citizens abroad, from spying through diplomatic missions and pro-government organizations diaspora to the denial of consular services and outright intimidation and illegal renditions.
