Turkey is trying its influence on Turks in Germany and, increasingly, a think-tank to expand, the government party, the AKP, of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the government in Ankara. The Foundation for political, economic and social research (Seta), that claims to be the leader in Turkey, has opened her office two years ago with only one employee. In the meantime, the think tank lists on its Website four employees for its Berlin office.
The Foundation aims to specifically influence the formation of public opinion and political debates affect. One of the four employees of the former Journalist Tarek Baé. On Thursday evening it was announced for an event of the Ditib-country youth Association in Berlin in the Sehitlik mosque. He should speak in front of young people about the relationship of Muslims to the media after the attacks in Christchurch, new Zealand. Prior to that, he was in the same Mission in numerous Ditib and Milli Görüs associations on-the-go.
Baé in his contributions about to get the old Turkish-Islamic Association structures and the Central role of Ditib. Attempts, even with state money, other structures, and to promote a Euro-Islam, he rejects categorically. The “Young Islam conference”, a network for young Muslims and Non-Muslims – counts, too, because it deals with LGBTQ themes, with lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, transgender and queer people.
Baé evaluates the “Young Islam conference” as an attempt “to influence young Muslims” young Muslims “different”. Baé rejects such a liberal Islam “with the approval” of the German state. Instead, he praises the “strong organisational structures” Ditib “through the connection to the Turkey”. Other Seta staff, Ibrahim Alboga, son of long-time Ditib’s General Secretary, was previously the head of the Ditib youth in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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How close are the linkages to the government in Ankara, a two-person alien order. Ahmet Davutoğlu, the former Seta-Chairman, was the chief Advisor of Erdogan, the Turkish Minister of foreign Affairs and, finally, from 2014 to 2016, Prime Minister and AKP leader. Seta-founding Director Ibrahim Kalin is since 2009, the foreign policy chief Advisor of Erdogan.
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While Ankara, the mosque Association Ditib influence on the German-Turks is increasing, concerns of the protagonists as Tarek Baé for young Turkish people to be put on Erdogan-rate. Volker Beck, once a member of the German Bundestag of the Greens, and now a lecturer for religious studies at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany, said: “Erdogan and the AKP see in the Turkish-Muslim associations Ditib, such as Milli Görüs, especially channels to strengthen the Turkish identity of Turkey-born Muslims in the Diaspora.” In addition to the influence of the office for Religious Affairs, which controls also the Ditib, or the office for foreign Turkishness am now going to try with the think-tank Seta, “to keep the youth in Germany in line with the ACP,” said Beck. “This is dividing our country.”
