Your editor defends criminal Feto

WHEN I read Foreign Editor Shannon Ebrahim’s article, (“South Africa is not a hunting ground”, The Star, May 19), the first thought was how lucky is the entity she refers to as the “Hizmet Movement” which is indeed a terrorist organisation in Turkey, to find such a spokesperson.

My second thought was how unlucky and unfortunate it was for Ms Ebrahim to defend this clandestine, double-faced and criminal organisation.

It is beyond belief how the Fethullahist Terror Organisation (Feto) and its leader Fethullah Gülen, responsible for the heinous and fortunately foiled coup attempt of last July against the democratic order of Turkey, can still be defended in light of the evidence.

Feto is a dangerous, clandestine group within Turkey and other countries around the world that has been nurtured by Gülen over the past 40 years, and there is more than enough smoke to see the fire. To claim that the desire of Turkey to bring to justice people linked to the Feto has no justification despite the variety of information and documen- tation presented by the government linking Feto to the botched coup attempt. This can only be explained by intellectual blindness or an absolute commitment to their lost and unjust cause.

I would therefore like to invite Ebrahim to view this issue from the perspective of the Turkish people. Our embassy remains at her disposal and ready to share the collection of information that we have on this heinous entity. Elif Comoglu Ulgen Ambassador (designate) of the Republic of Turkey to SA