UAE proposes swap of dissidents with Turkey: Report
‘A Turkish columnist has revealed that the United Arab Emirates is willing to swap dissidents with Ankara in a bid to improve relations that have been strained over a failed coup in Turkey and an evolving diplomatic dispute between the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf region.
Kenan Akin, a columnist with the Turkish newspaper Yenicag, revealed that senior UAE officials had been pressing Turkey for a swap of suspected plotters of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt in Turkey who are held in the UAE with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest and most popular political party in the Arab world which monarchs in the region see as a threat to their rule.
Akin’s report said the UAE was specifically urging the extradition of nine Brotherhood members from Turkey. He said Abdullah Sultan al-Nuaimi, a senior official at the UAE Foreign Ministry, had revealed details about the proposal to the journalist.’
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