Veliocas: 151 French students, who are studying religion in Turkey, will return to France extremists
Renowned researcher Joachim Veliocas
has said that there are two Turkish organizations are building mosques in
France and a Socialist mayor in France had given up land for money to build a
mosque to promote the concepts of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organization.
Veliocas told a breakfast seminar,
which was held by the Center for Middle East Studies in Paris (CEMO) on August
24, that the Turks are active in the French quarters and central France, adding
that a French mayor had ordered to build a mosque. Veliocas said that mayor participated
in a conference of the Islamic associations.
He added that some 151 French
students went to Turkey to study Islam, noting that they would return to France
with extremist ideologies.
Veliocas added that there are three French
primary and secondary schools, in which Turkey is teaching the extremist
religious ideologies.
The seminar is organized on the
sidelines of the G7 summit in Biarritz, a seaside town on the southwestern
French Basque coast. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is attending the
summit for the first time.
Mariam Benrand, a political violence
specialist at the Arab and Islamic World Research and Studies Institute of the
French Ministry of Higher Education, participates in the seminar. .
Renowned Middle Eastern affairs
specialist Roland Lombardi is also participating, along with renowned
researcher Joachim Veliocas.
The seminar is mediated by CEMO
Executive Director Ahmed Youssef.
