- Title: Turkey adds former Palestinian politician Dahlan to most wanted list
- Date: 13th December 2019
- Summary: GAZA (FILE) (REUTERS) PALESTINIAN POLITICIAN MOHAMMED DAHLAN WALKING WITH ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES VARIOUS OF BUILDING WHERE DAHLAN WAS MEETING WITH SECURITY FORCES DAHLAN IN HIS OFFICE VARIOUS OF MEETING BETWEEN DAHLAN AND FORMER ISRAELI DEFENCE MINISTER EFRAIM SNEH GAZA (FILE - MAY 17, 2003) (REUTERS) PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS, INCLUDING DAHLAN AT PALESTINIAN CABINET; WHICH WAS LED BY THEN PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER MAHMOUD ABBAS PALESTINIAN MINISTERS DAHLAN DURING CABINET MEETING MORE OF CABINET MEETING RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (FILE - JUNE 11, 2003) (REUTERS) FORMER EGYPTIAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF OMER SULEIMAN ARRIVING AT ARAFAT'S COMPOUND VARIOUS OF SULEIMEN MEETING WITH LATE PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT, AND PRIME MINISTER MAHMOUD ABBAS VARIOUS OF SULEIMAN AT MEETING DAHLAN AT MEETING BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (FILE - AUGUST 2009) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WOMAN HUGGING AND CONGRATULATING DAHLAN
- Embargoed: 27th December 2019 15:06
- Keywords: Dahlan Gaza Turkey wanted lis
- Location: GAZA CITY, GAZA/ RAMALLAH, BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK
- City: GAZA CITY, GAZA/ RAMALLAH, BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA001B9T93RB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Turkey has added exiled Palestinian politician Mohammed Dahlan to its "red list" of most-wanted terrorism suspects, offering a reward of up to 10 million lira ($1.75 million) for information leading to his capture, the Interior Ministry said on Friday (December 13).
Arrest warrants have been issued for Dahlan on accusations of playing a role in the 2016 attempted coup in Turkey, seeking to change the constitutional order by force, and various spying-related charges, the ministry said in a statement.
Dahlan has also recently been an outspoken critic of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey accuses the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen and his followers of carrying out the failed putsch of July 2016, when rogue soldiers commandeered warplanes, tanks and helicopters in a bid to seize power in which some 250 people were killed.
Dahlan has lived in the United Arab Emirates since he was driven out of the Palestinian territories in 2011 after a row with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
He was formerly an elected member of Abbas' Fatah party central committee, and was a fierce foe of Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip and that has forged close ties with Turkey.
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