{"id":6199,"date":"2025-06-01T15:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T15:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:36:38","slug":"abbas-ag-antala-sends-an-open-letter-to-turkish-president-tayyip-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/abbas-ag-antala-sends-an-open-letter-to-turkish-president-tayyip-erdogan\/","title":{"rendered":"ABBAS AG ANTALA SENDS AN OPEN LETTER TO TURKISH PRESIDENT TAYYIP ERDOGAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"921\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GsTjjlkXQAAkLcg.jpeg?fit=1024%2C921&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GsTjjlkXQAAkLcg.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GsTjjlkXQAAkLcg.jpeg?resize=300%2C270&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GsTjjlkXQAAkLcg.jpeg?resize=768%2C691&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GsTjjlkXQAAkLcg.jpeg?resize=13%2C12&amp;ssl=1 13w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Abbas Ag Antala sends an open letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, demanding that he review Turkey&#8217;s positions in the Sahel, stop supporting oppressive regimes that use Turkish drones against civilians, and calls on him to choose to stand with the oppressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The conciliation commissioner in the Azwad Liberation Front, #Abbas_Ag_Intalla, called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip #Erdogan to review his positions in the Sahel countries. He also urged him to choose to stand with oppressed Muslim peoples, not with those who oppress them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ag Intalla added in an open letter addressed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip #Erdogan that he is writing this letter as part of the Islamic nation, which Turkey has always declared its support and defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ag Intalla expressed his deep pain and extreme astonishment at what he sees as a clear contradiction between Turkey&#8217;s Islamic discourse and its political and field positions, particularly in the three African Sahel countries, and particularly the suffering of Muslims in the Sahel region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He added, &#8220;How can #Turkey, which has presented itself as a supporter of the oppressed and the weak, provide drones and military equipment to regimes involved in campaigns of repression and genocide against a defenseless people whose only crime is demanding their legitimate rights to freedom, dignity, and justice?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ag Antala asked, &#8220;How can someone who raises the banner of Islam and addresses the nation in the name of justice send weapons to those who kill Muslims?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He also asked, &#8220;How can Turkey, even unintentionally, be a partner in the oppression of a Muslim people who have suffered for years from exclusion, discrimination, and persecution, and are treated as strangers in their own homeland?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-wide wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"506\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/496969405_10076987272340421_7645051176919626764_n.jpg?fit=506%2C565&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/496969405_10076987272340421_7645051176919626764_n.jpg?w=506&amp;ssl=1 506w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/496969405_10076987272340421_7645051176919626764_n.jpg?resize=269%2C300&amp;ssl=1 269w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freeazawad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/496969405_10076987272340421_7645051176919626764_n.jpg?resize=11%2C12&amp;ssl=1 11w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">UPDATE: A Malian newspaper is saying that Alghabass Ag Intalla is &#8220;playing tricks&#8221; when he calls on Erdogan to stop providing drones and military equipment to regimes involved in campaigns of repression and genocide against a defenseless people (the Malian\/Wagner genocide on the people of Azawad) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">That is nothing but an attempt to distort the truth and hide it from the Malian population. To quote Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, spokesperson of the Azawad Liberation Front:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\">Alghabass Ag Intalla isn&#8217;t playing any tricks. What he do is sounding the alarm by confronting Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan with an uncomfortable truth: his drones don&#8217;t protect people, they crush them. Selling them to the juntas is condoning the murder of innocent civilians. Denouncing this isn&#8217;t a game, it&#8217;s a duty.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-wide wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Azawad Support Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">01-06-25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color wp-elements-bbc451ac11c6172b04f7e896fe0623f8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/\">H  O  M  E<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbas Ag Antala sends an open letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, demanding that he review Turkey&#8217;s positions in the Sahel, stop supporting oppressive regimes that use Turkish drones against civilians, and calls on him to choose to stand with the oppressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,232,140,113,126,381],"tags":[520,118,107,106,131,214,306,519,115,119,121,122,114,120,116,200,201,117],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aes","category-africa","category-azawad-news","category-azawad-mali-fama-wagner-atrocities-terrorism-genocide-racism-human-rights-violations-humanitarian-crisis-civilian-victims","category-drone-attacks","category-sahel","tag-abbas_ag_antala","tag-atrocities","tag-azawad","tag-azawad-liberation-front","tag-azawad-liberation-struggle","tag-azawad_army","tag-drone_attacks","tag-erdogan","tag-fama","tag-genocide","tag-human-rights-violations","tag-humanitarian-crisis","tag-mali","tag-racism","tag-terrorism","tag-turkey","tag-turkish_drones","tag-wagner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeazawad.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}