Brotherhood no longer welcomed in Turkey

Media outlets widely reported on Turkey's attempted expulsion of the Brotherhood of Yemen leaders from the country including, first and foremost, Tawakkol Karman.

According to reports and local sources, the government gave Brotherhood leaders 30 days as a deadline for the regularization of their status, as they are no longer welcomed in the Turkey.

Reliable Yemeni sources revealed to “Okaz” that a number of Yemeni Brotherhood leaders in Turkey left for European countries, after receiving warnings from the Turkish authorities that they should limit their activities, stressing that Tawakkol Karman had begun arranging for her departure to the United States.

The sources pointed out that Brotherhood members and leaders are in a state of panic against the backdrop of the Turkish measures, stressing that a group of activists, writers and some leaders from the second row left Turkey for European countries, while the rest are still searching for refuge.

The sources did not rule out their expulsion in the coming days, especially since everyone understood that these warnings were a prelude to expulsion.

On the other hand, UAE and Turkey seem to be more willing to focus on areas of mutual concern. They still have to overcome or avoid some major ideological and geopolitical disagreements, including their opposite views of the Muslim Brotherhood. 

The Emiratis are actively working to avoid conflicts with Turkey, welcoming changes in Ankara’s foreign policy especially on Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Brotherhood only proved that it simply cannot play a constructive role anywhere. They wreak havoc in any country in which it secures a foothold. 

More than ten years after the fall of the Zine El Abidine Ben Ali regime in Tunisia, the misbehaviour of the Muslim Brotherhood, operating under the banner of the Ennahda movement led by Rached Ghannouchi, has pushed Tunisia’s to the brink.

The Brotherhood has an unquenchable thirst for power. Yemen remains a glaring example of this impulse. Everything that the Brotherhood, which operates in Yemen under the name of al-Islah Party, has done there has been in the service of the Houthis.

The region appears to have two options. Either to fall in the trap of the Brotherhood and its subversive project, or to resist them, as was the case in Egypt, which recovered after getting rid of their rule and shedding the backward model which they wanted to impose upon the country.