Turkish strongman Tayyip Erdogan has set his sight on Ghana, especially as a new government is about to take over the mantle of leadership.
He tried it through the Turkish mission in Ghana to export his local politics into the country by tagging businessmen from that country pro-Fetullah Gulen elements who should be extradited to Istanbul.
Ghana, a member of the international community, would hardly succumb to such a request. Erdogan would definitely be more disappointed with the incoming government whose leader Nana Akufo-Addo is a cherisher of democracy and the basic freedoms than his predecessor.
Nana Akufo-Addo understands international politics more than the average politician, having held the Foreign Affairs portfolio in the course of his political career and cannot be convinced about why foreigners doing legitimate business in Ghana should be extradited to Turkey where they would be subjected to horrendous treatment by their compatriots in uniform upon the orders of the president.
There are many Turkish businesses and a school which has on its roll pupils from all parts of the world.
Information reaching DAILY GUIDE suggest that the Turkish mission in Ghana would not spare any effort in its quest to kill the businesses of their compatriots they regard as anti-political establishment in the home country.
After surviving a coup d’état a few months ago, Erdogan has been on a witch-hunting spree, arresting anybody suspected of having links with the exiled political thinker Fetullah Gulen. Thousands of academicians, journalists, policemen and soldiers and ordinary persons have been arrested and detailed under a draconian regime in Turkey.
Recently in Ghana, the Turkish mission turned to the media with negative stories about some organisations and persons operating in the country, having failed to have the government extradite such persons.
A similar request by Erdogan to the US for the extradition of Fetullah Gulen who has lived in that country for some years now was turned down by Washington.
Schools established by the Turks in Ghana are modelled along European standards with admission open to all nationalities, hence the many races on the roll of such institutions.
Source: Dailyguideafrica.com
