Turkish Embassy in New Zealand spied on child care center and profiled critics

Nordic Monitor ^ | February 2019 (4 weeks ago) | Abdullah Bozkurt

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The Turkish Embassy in New Zealand engaged in a campaign of intelligence gathering and profiling of critics and their organizations including a child care center, documents obtained by Nordic Monitor have revealed.

According to an official document, Auckland-based nonprofit organization Pearl of the Islands Foundation Inc. (PIF) was profiled by the Turkish Embassy in Wellington and reported on to the Turkish Foreign Ministry. The document was later sent to the police department to build a case against critics of the Erdoğan regime.

The information collected by the embassy was used in a criminal indictment on dubious charges of terrorism against opponents, who have faced an unprecedented crackdown in recent years by the authoritarian government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The Gulen movement, a civic group that is highly critical of the Erdoğan government, bears the brunt of the crackdown in terms of the right to dissent and freedom of expression.

Those who were listed in these embassy documents were targeted by a campaign of intimidation and harassment and denied consular services abroad, while their relatives and friends back in Turkey risked the possibility of jail time, asset seizure and prosecution on fabricated criminal charges.

PIF’s stated aim according to its website is “to celebrate diversity and advance social cohesion between cultures to contribute the educational, cultural and overall social well-being of our community through its established institutions, platforms, and activities.” It has promoted a moderate version of Islam against radical views and held seminars and lectures to that effect over the years. It has organized an Anzac study tour and cultural festival and offered Turkish language classes.

The Turkish Embassy document listed PIF’s interfaith community iftar dinner — held in May 2016 at Parliament House in Wellington and attended by members of Parliament, government officials, community leaders and scholars – as if it were a criminal activity and reported the event to headquarters.

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This happened just prior to the attack by a Communist pretending to be a right winger, killing close to 50 worshipers at a Mosque in Christ Church, New Zealand.

The author of the article was editor for a large media company in Turkey just prior to the faux coup in Turkey. He left Turkey just before it became impossible for journalists to leave, thinking he would go abroad until the false arrests subsided. They never did, so he writes from Helsinki now. He is amazingly knowledgeable about the inter-working of Turkey.

Here is Erdogan's reaction:

Abdullah Bozkurt‏ @abdbozkurt

https://twitter.com/abdbozkurt/status/1106620166237024258

#Turkey's president #Erdogan says he told #NewZealand Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy on the phone he sends both his deputy and Foreign Minister to help plot a new chart for the country, said he never wants the country of freedoms gets overshadowed by #ChristchurchMosqueAttack

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Abdullah Bozkurt‏ @abdbozkurt

https://twitter.com/abdbozkurt/status/1106620659109642240

Let's see what his Foreign Minister and Turkish embassy was up to recently in New Zealand. Here is an exposé on how Turkish Embassy in New Zealand spied on child care center and profiled critics https://www.nordicmonitor.com/2019/02/turkish

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Abdullah Bozkurt‏ @abdbozkurt

https://twitter.com/abdbozkurt/status/1106544924651077633

UNBELIEVABLE. #Erdogan continues to agitate & exploit terrible terror attack in #NewZealand for his election rally today, asks his followers if they watched the live feed, repeats the attackers' alleged manifesto of killing all Turks in Europe, says it reflects hidden ambitions

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Remember, Turkish elections are very near. Erdogan the Islamist will do anything to remain Dictator. He will steal the election if necessary.