Stockholm-Sana
The Swedish Nordic Monitor revealed that the operations of pursuing opponents of the policies of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outside Turkey are continuing in parallel with the practices of repression and pursuit against them inside the country.
The website stated that a leaked document of the Turkish regime's foreign ministry shows that the diplomatic missions affiliated with it in the United States are spying and chasing opponents of Erdogan and including their names on the wanted lists, whether under the pretext of association with the Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen or belonging to a terrorist organization as they claim.
According to the document obtained by the site, the Turkish consulate in New York included on its lists the name of a Turkish citizen after he applied for a power of attorney to authorize a lawyer in Turkey in preparation for selling a property in his name, noting that Turkish diplomats began spying on him and his family and sent a detailed file to Ankara.
These spying operations and the information gathered about the Turkish citizen, whose name was not disclosed by the Nordic Monitor website, paved the way for the confiscation of his assets and the opening of judicial investigations under the pretext of his opposition to the Turkish regime.
Critics and opponents of Erdogan's policies have faced espionage, death threats and kidnapping since 2014, but the failed coup attempt against him in July 2016 has become a permanent pretext for the Turkish regime to liquidate his opponents.