Turkey's AK Party: U.S. move against Muslim Brotherhood would damage democracy in Middle East


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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The orator for Turkey’s statute AK Party pronounced on Tuesday that if a United States designated a Muslim Brotherhood a unfamiliar belligerent organization, it would bushel democratization efforts in a Middle East and offer belligerent groups like Islamic State.





The White House pronounced on Tuesday President Donald Trump was operative to announce a Muslim Brotherhood a unfamiliar belligerent organization, a step that would pierce sanctions opposite Egypt’s oldest Islamist movement.


Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi asked Trump to make a designation, that Egypt has already done, in a private assembly during an Apr 9 revisit to Washington, a comparison U.S. central said, confirming a news in a New York Times.


Omer Celik, orator for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party, pronounced such a preference by a United States would “undoubtedly produce intensely wrong formula per stability, tellurian rights, simple rights and freedoms in countries of a Islamic world”, he said.


“At a same time, (Trump’s move) is a biggest support that can be given to a promotion of Daesh,” he said, referring to Islamic State.


Despite being NATO allies, Turkey and a United States are now during loggerheads especially over their hostile interests in Syria and Ankara’s skeleton to buy Russian barb defenses.


Relations between Ankara and Cairo have been stretched given a Egyptian military, afterwards led by Sisi, suspended President Mohamed Mursi, a comparison figure in a Muslim Brotherhood, in 2013 after mass protests opposite his rule.


The Muslim Brotherhood has tighten ties with Turkey’s AK Party and many of a members have fled there given a activities were criminialized in Egypt. It says it is an wholly pacific organization.


Egypt’s Brotherhood pronounced on Tuesday it would continue to work in line with “our assuage and pacific thinking” regardless of moves by a Trump administration.


Egyptian authorities underneath Sisi have jailed thousands of a supporters and most of a leadership, including Mursi.


The Brotherhood says it is a non-violent transformation and denies any attribute to aroused insurgencies waged by al Qaeda and Islamic State militants.


Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen; Editing by Mark Heinrich


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