An American expert: Turkey is "destitute" and Qatar funds its activities in Yemen
English - Saturday 08 August 2020 الساعة 03:52 pm
Aden, Newsyemen, Exclusive:
The American expert specializing in national security, Yemeni and Turkish affairs and radical groups, Irina Zuckerman, confirmed that the operations and movements taking place in Al-Hujaria in the Taiz governorate in central Yemen are directly related to the Turkish / Qatari move against Saudi Arabia.
In an exclusive interview with Newsyemen, Tsukerman said that Turkey and Qatar are part of the "Islamic Quartet" that aims to abolish the anti-terrorism quartet led by Riyadh.
Of course, the challenge of Saudi influence and investment in the region is through political, ideological, religious and military investment, and humanitarian and economic means.
She explained: "This is exactly what the Turkish / Qatari axis is doing in Taiz, as they work to train fighters who can pose a military challenge, form a secret intelligence relationship, spread ideological extremism, and in general present themselves as leaders in the region and a superpower that creates a caliphate, while visualizing Saudi Arabia is viewed as incompetent and serving narrow, self-serving goals that cannot lead to any greatness or strength for Yemen. "
She indicated that Turkey is destitute, but Qatar is ready to finance all these operations, and there is no reason not to believe that it will not invest in causing more problems for the Arab coalition and any Yemeni or any Yemeni forces that are opposed to the Houthis or are explicitly in line with the goals of the coalition.
She added that in the long term, Ankara can exacerbate the existing tensions in Yemen and cause more additional problems, noting that the greatest danger that Ankara is exercising is ideological.
She indicated that when Turkey fails to achieve its goals militarily, it succeeds in recruiting followers by carrying out tasks in the form of educational and humanitarian awareness and extremism in mosques.
The American expert said that Turkey's intervention in Yemen is currently limited to some recruitment camps, but there is already evidence that a few hundred members of the Islah party have been recruited to fight as mercenaries in Libya, indicating Turkey's success in the increasing globalization of conflicts. Moreover, it is currently training some Islah fighters to mobilize them against the Southern Transitional Council and other Yemeni forces, not against the Houthis.
Zuckerman added, "In fact, we have seen so far recent evidence from a German security report that Qatar funds Hezbollah, which trains the Houthis, among others,"
