Turkish group IHH to fund radical Islamic teams in South Asia

Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan is utilizing charities as a canopy to create a community between his authorities and terrorist organisations to broaden logistical hub for jihadist networks within the South Asia area. According to the most recent report by Swedish media outlet Nordic Monitor, Turkey is utilizing an al-Qaeda-linked charity group – The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Aid (İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı or IHH) to broaden its assist base among the many nation’s minority Muslim group and to broaden logistical operations in assist of world jihadist networks.
The Turkish charity group IHH has been working with Islami Sangh Nepal (ISN), its regional accomplice in South Asia. The ISN, which has been receiving funding straight from Turkey to finance varied initiatives in Nepal, focuses its operations in areas near Nepal’s border with India. Through ISN, the al-Qaeda linked IHH is in search of to achieve a foothold within the area.
Both organisations are actually below the lens of Indian intelligence companies, which have multiple event singled out ISN for supporting jihadist terrorists in Nepal. On the opposite hand, the IHH has already been listed as an arms smuggler by the UN Security Council and has additionally been investigated for operating a assist line to armed jihadist teams in Syria in January 2014.
The IHH, which has direct hyperlinks to the Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), enjoys the assist of President Erdogan himself. The IHH receives particular funding privileges from the Turkish authorities, which has backed the al-Qaeda linked organisation when it confronted quite a few anti-terrorism investigations up to now. The Nordic Monitor means that Turkey’s Erdogan regime helps the IHH in international operations utilizing its diplomatic clout.
Al-Qaeda linked IHH lively in three provinces of Nepal, near India border too
The Turkey-based basis is especially lively in three provinces of Nepal. Province No. 1, Province No. 2 and Lumbini Province. In addition to the capital Kathmandu, the al-Qaeda linked organisation has constructed mosques, madrasas, Islamic centres and orphanages in different cities. In the close to future, the IHH intends to broaden into the Sunsari area, an space near the Indian border. 
The hyperlink between Islami Sangh Nepal and radical Islamists isn’t just restricted to the IHH. The ISN was listed as a member of an organisation referred to as the Islamic World NGO Union (ISDB), which is merely a entrance for the Turkish paramilitary group SADAT. The obscure organisation is headed by Adnan Tanriverdi, a former senior army advisor to President Erdogan. Tanriverdi, one of many key advisors of Erdogan, is funding jihadist teams each inside and out of doors Turkish territory, together with offering army coaching and recommendation on army and safety logistics.
Ali Fuat Yılmazer, the previous head of the Turkish police intelligence part who specialises in radical spiritual teams, had testified in courtroom in 2016 saying, “IHH campaigns are designed to provide assistance to jihadists involved in terrorism around the world and provide medical assistance, funding, logistics and human resources for jihadists”. 
Turkey funding anti-India actions, in contact with radical Islamic organisations
It can be essential to notice that Turkey has been actively funding and supporting extremist Islamic organisations in Kerala and Kashmir. Turkey, led by Islamist chief Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has now emerged because the epicentre of anti-India actions. The expansionist Turkish authorities, in search of to determine its dominance within the Islamic world by way of its conservatism and ‘Ottoman traditions’, is now exerting its affect on South Asian Muslims. 
In this endeavour, Turkey has joined palms with Pakistan to broaden its affect within the area. The Turkish organisations have been in fixed contact with Islamist organisations within the area.
The IHH, also referred to as İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı, has an alliance with radical Islamist organisation Popular Front of India (PFI). The two radical Islamic organisations have met within the run-up to the Lok Sabha Elections in 2019. The two key PFI leaders EM Abdul Rahiman and Prof. P Koya had met senior IHH functionaries.
Erdogan sponsoring spiritual seminars, protests in India
Erdogan can be funding spiritual seminars in India to radicalise Muslims and taking them on a full-expense coated journey to Turkey for additional indoctrination.
Pakistani and Turkish officers had additionally funded hate preacher Zakir Naik, who has been accused of inciting and radicalising Indian Muslims with Qatar’s assist. Besides criticising India over the humanitarian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the following riots, the Turkish authorities had reportedly pumped in funds to lengthen the protests.
Reportedly, the Turkish authorities has additionally been funding separatist chief in Kashmir, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, for a number of years. As per the report, the Turkish authorities has additionally disbursed funds to a radical Islamist organisation in Kerala once in a while.