Turkey recalls imams from Germany for ‘exceeding authority’

The Diyanet agency’s arch Mehmet Gormez vehemently denied there had been any indiscretion by a clerics, observant his organization was a aim of a insult campaign.

German military this week raided a homes of 4 Turkish Muslim clerics suspected of espionage for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s supervision on a transformation of US-based reverend Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for a manoeuvre bid final year.

The imams, who were not named, are indicted of stating to Diyanet on Turkish supporters of Gulen, by a Turkish consulate in Cologne.

“The clerics did not rivet in any bootleg act,” Gormez told reporters in Ankara, adding that information had been common with Germany.

But he said: “Six clerics who were evaluated to have exceeded their management were sent behind to their posts in Turkey.”

This was “to say a mutual trust between dual countries and as a gesticulate of goodwill,” Gormez added.

He emphasized that they had never participated “in any act of intelligence-gathering or espionage”, though reliable that a 6 removed enclosed a 4 clerics whose homes were raided.

Gormez indicated that they had already been removed before a raids took place, slamming a military actions as theme to “political and media pressure”.

He voiced wish that German officials would assistance in “sensibly finale this irrational and purposeless process”.

Gormez gave no sum on how a removed clerics had exceeded their authority.

German military done no arrests in a raids though confiscated created element and information storage devices.

German media pronounced imams go to Ditib, an organization tranquil by Ankara that manages some 900 mosques or eremite communities in Germany. Diyanet sends clerics to work in a mosques.

The operation of a change has on arise caused debate in Germany, as with identical organisations in a Netherlands and Austria.

The raids came during a time of high tragedy between Ankara and Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s supervision regularly criticising a scale of a crackdown in a arise of the July 15th unsuccessful coup.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is streamer to Germany during a weekend and is approaching to accommodate Merkel.