Turkey is planning to send Syrian Jihadists to fight in Kashmir, a Greek journalist has claimed. Andreas Mountzouralias has detailed the plans of Turkish President Erdogan in his report titled ‘Erdogan sends mercenaries to Kashmir’ on Pentapostagama. As per the report, it is part of Erdogan’s attempt to replace Saudi Arabia’s premier position in the Islamic world by extending his influence in South Asia. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s secretive paramilitary group SADAT, led by his former chief military aide Adnan Tanrıverdi, tapped Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, a Kashmiri-born convicted felon who served time in US federal prison, to pursue operations on US soil and mobilize resources against India.
Fai’s US-based organization, the Kashmiri American Council (KAC), an outfit that was funded by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), networked with SADAT’s front organization, the Union of NGOs of the Islamic World. KAC was officially listed as one of the İDSB’s two member organizations in the US, and Fai was a member of the İDSB’s council, the highest decision-making body of the organization. A review of SADAT’s past work shows that Fai frequently participated in events organized by SADAT and even met in person with Tanrıverdi, a retired military officer who still advises the Turkish president, albeit in an unofficial capacity after his resignation in January 2020. SADAT has been functioning as a training and logistical hub for jihadists in Turkey, Syria, Libya and other countries. Its leader Tanrıverdi aims to transform Turkey’s secular system into Shariah-based Islamist regime and dreams of setting up an Islamic army with the participation of Muslim countries. In December 2019 following a session of the International Islamic Union Congress organized by SADAT, Tanrıverdi said his organization had been working to pave the way for the mahdi’s (prophesied savior and redeemer of Islam) arrival.