The Comoros Islands, an impoverished country, consisting of three Indian Ocean islands and 800,000 people, has weathered secession attempts in its turbulent 43 years since independence. Yet, the Islands are strategic in several regional issues for Qatar, Turkey’s main ally, including transportation and mercenary recruitment.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has infiltrated the Union of Comoros and is using Hamid Karhela and the lawyer Ahmed Mahmoud to realize a coup against president Othman Ghazali.
Hamid Karhela served many years in the Government of Comoros. When he was a minister of state, he took a large percentage of Arab aid intended to support development in Comoros, using this money for himself.
People in Comoros describe him as one of the most corrupted persons in the country, and that’s why Erdogan is using him. Erdogan uses this character to fulfill his interests in the country and expand the Muslim Brotherhood influence, as well as radical Islam.
Local media denounced that Ahmed Mahmoud, as a lawyer, came in contact with several human rights organizations to file false reports on the human rights situation in the Comoros Islands.
Security sources also suggest that along with Hamid Karhela, Mahmoud works to establish armed groups in the Comoros Islands by smuggling Turkish weapons, aiming to destabilize the country and spread the chaos across the islands.
Observers believe that the two politicians are acting in full coordination according to the Qatari agenda as they repeatedly met Qatari and Turkish intelligence officers in the past months.
In exchange for this unconditional support and confidential information they provided, Doha and Ankara are guaranteeing the two politicians important personal benefits and large sums of money, as well as pledging them to lead the country after the coup they are planning.
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