Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan invested in the Muslim Brotherhood network to carve out influence in the war-torn Gulf nation of Yemen and sent a team organized by his chief military advisor to meet with a US-designated terrorist in Sanaa, a Nordic Monitor investigation has found out.
According to the internal records of private military contractor SADAT, which many believe is a de facto paramilitary force loyal to the Islamist president of Turkey, Shaikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani, a 70-year-old cleric listed as a terrorist by the United States, privately met with a visiting SADAT delegation in Yemen to discuss Arab and Muslim affairs.
Erdoğan’s paramilitary group SADAT, which is led by Adnan Tanrıverdi, a retired officer and former chief military advisor to President Erdoğan, has been functioning as a training and logistical hub for jihadists in Turkey, Syria, Libya and other countries. SADAT reached out to Abdul Majeed’s network in 2014 when it sent a special delegation to Sanaa under the cover of an NGO cooperation scheme.
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