Egypt's Al-Ghad television network, that FETÖ leader Fetullah Gülen spoke after his failed coup attempt in Turkey, is said to be owned by Fatah archrival Mohammed Dahlan, who reportedly financed the coup plot.
Fetullah Gülen, who attempted to stage a military coup in Turkey with the help of his followers in the military, called on the West to overthrow the legitimate government in Turkey in his Tuesday interview with Al-Ghad television network, known the first pan-Arabic news channel broadcast from Egypt.
A source, speaking to Turkey's Yenişafak reporter on condition of anonymity, said Gaza's former strongman, Mohammed Dahlan, is the real owner of the Al-Ghad television network.
In 2011, Dahlan has also been blamed for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's suspicious death in France. The former Fatah man, is said to have sent poison disguised as medicine to Arafat while he was in a Paris hospital. In 2014, Dahlan has been accused of being an active collaborator with Israel's occupation in Gaza.
David Hearts, currently editor of Middle East Eye, said that the United Arab Emirates had collaborated with coup plotters in Turkey before the abortive bid was launched, using the Fatah's former strongman Mohammed Dahlan as a go-between with Fetullah Gülen, who is accused of fomenting the plot to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Dahlan was forced to leave the UAE after the coup failed to reach its aim and he is now believed to be in Egypt, according to Hearts, the former foreign leader writer for the Guardian. Hearts also said the UAE was forced to launch an operation to distance itself from Dahlan and express support for Erdoğan as the legitimate president of Turkey, when he recognized what actually happened in Turkey 16 hours after the failed coup bid.
Turkey's respectable weekly magazine Gerçek Hayat shed a light on UAE's malicious attempt to finance the plotters through Dahlan in its cover story that made the headline “Multinational Coup Plot against Erdoğan" in its January issue.
In the story, Gerçek Hayat argued a multi-national plan aims to unseat Erdoğan, presumably led by the the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the support of Russia and Iran.
“There has been a plan to oust President Erdoğan in a coup plot which is almost the same as the one that toppled Mohammed Mursi in Egypt, according to information leaked from UAE political lobbies. A smear campaign will be orchestrated in the first stage of the coup plot, also backed by the Jordanian intelligence service…" the story argued.
The report by Sinem Köseoğlu, currently leading the monthly Derin Economy magazine, detailed how Dahlan supervised a smear campaign in late 2015.
Dahlan has given insight into his plan, particularly supported by the UAE, when he received a 15-member delegation, made up of journalists and politicians, in his Abu Dhabi office on December 14, 2015. The plan to orchestrate a multi-national coup plot with the support of Erdoğan's opponents in his home included the following;
-- Arab media outlets and fierce opponents of Erdoğan in Turkey's mainstream media will jointly run a perception campaign in order to discredit him in the public
-- All of his opponents in every sector, even in the ruling AK Party, will be supported financially
-- To provide support, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), in order to stir chaos, will undermine Turkey's security and encourage mass rallies against Erdoğan with the aim of unseating him
-- Expanding support to Erdoğan's opponents in the Turkish armed forces and
Dahlan held this meeting only three days before the police launched an arrest campaign Erdoğan's inner circle and sons of three members of the then cabinet in what later became called the Dec. 17 raids. In that era, Dec. 17 raids appeared to have represented the biggest assault on Erdoğan's authority, since the Gezi Park-centered mass demonstrations in the summer of 2013.
