This is a giant hunt on a large scale, on a continent where all tricks are allowed: kidnappings, political assassinations, citizen renditions, extortion.
All over Europe, the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan is spreading its tentacles when it comes to neutralizing, capture or harm its opponents, writes the French newspaper Le Monde, presenting the book entitled "Wolves love the fog" (Les Loups aiment la brume).
The aim is to silence all dissident voices, be they Kurdish, pro-Armenian, far-left, from the Fethullah Gulen brotherhood or even from former fellow travellers who have broken ranks.
Increasingly paranoid, after the 2013 Taksim uprising, the return of the civil war with the Kurdish movement in 2015, and the failed coup in 2016, the Turkish regime treats any opposition as an existential threat.
In the book "Wolves love the fog, Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier, former correspondents of Le Monde in Turkey, tell the story of this "army" led by MIT, the Turkish secret services.
MIT's arm is very long. It was involved in the murder of three PKK activists, including one of the movement's founding members, in an apartment on Rue Lafayette, Paris, on January 9, 2013, the newspaper notes.
While the perpetrator died of illness in prison, the masterminds and coordinators, some of whom live in France, are still at large.
The investigation is ongoing, but, as Marchand and Perrier tell us, the judge is not particularly supported by the French secret services, which are preventing the declassification of notes that could identify the killer's accomplices.
A "deep state"
In fact, the Turkish services have spun a vast cobweb in Europe, the center of which is in Germany, home to the largest Turkish community in Europe.
An estimated 6,000 people work for the services there. It is a mixture of secret agents, spies, diplomats, informers, political activists and businessmen, all united in a "deep state" that mixes mafia networks and state services, with the addition of a religious dimension.
In conclusion, the French newspaper underlines that what the book narrates is the movement of Turkey's folding in on itself.
An "Ottoman" Turkey that sees itself as the centre of an empire that must be rebuilt.
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