Devil's Arms: Tanrıverdi and Erdoğan's terrorist agenda (2 – 6)
Retired general Adnan Tanrıverdi is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's most important man in Libya.
Tanrıverdi is responsible for
the transfer of mercenaries from Syria to the North African state through SADAT
International Defense Consultancy which was founded in 2012.
The incorporation is
the world's first for the training of terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq
and Syria and other terrorist organizations around the world.
Suspicious
relations
Tanrıverdi was kicked out of
the Turkish military establishment in 1996 against the background of his
dubious relations with terrorist organizations. He was 52 years old then. He
was the commander of Turkish special combat troops.
When he became in
control of important Turkish state institutions, Erdoğan asked Tanrıverdi of establishing SADAT, knowing the
man's obsession with violence and extremism.
In founding the
incorporation, the Turkish president achieved several goals at the same time.
He used it in liquidating his opponents, after the presumed 2016 military coup
against his regime.
The presumed coup was
Erdoğan's magic wand for controlling the army, state institutions, police and
the parliament.
He also used the same
coup in cracking down on his opponents, including in other countries. He fired
a huge number of army officers and civil servants, using fabricated charges.
Nevertheless, the
Turkish president implicated his country's army in military conflicts in other
countries, including in Syria, Iraq and Libya. He also sent his army to Qatar.
SADAT is
headquartered in Istanbul. Its board consists of a number of radical Islamists.
It has 15,000 staff members. It is given numerous names, including "War
Dogs" and "Turkey's Black Water."
Reward
Erdoğan rewarded Tanrıverdi for his role in vanquishing the
Turkish opposition by appointing him as an advisor to him on August 16, 2016.
This
was a month after the presumed military coup took place.
Tanrıverdi succeeded in winning
Erdoğan's confidence by turning SADAT into an important platform for training
terrorists in guerrilla warfare and using them in implementing the agenda of
the Turkish regime in other countries.