'Islamist' Turkey Denies Muslim Brotherhood TV Channels Being Broadcast From Turkey.

'Islamist' Turkey Denies Muslim Brotherhood TV Channels Being Broadcast From Turkey.(GMBR).

February 12, 2015 Turkey’s foreign ministry has said that Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated channels are not being broadcast from Turkey, according to Egypt’s charge d’affairs in Istanbul. Turkish officials told Hussein El-Saharty that they did not issue permits to any channels that incite violence, Reuter`s Aswat Masriya reported. 

Earlier this month the Egyptian foreign ministry issued an official complaint against ‘terrorist channels supporting the Muslim Brotherhood broadcasting from inside Turkish territories.’

El-Saharty told Aswat Masriya in an interview that the Turkish foreign ministry requested to meet him and denied ‘the charges regarding Turkey’s sponsorship of these channels.’

However, El-Saharty said he stressed that ‘the crew working on the Brotherhood channels such as Al-Sharq, Egypt Now, and other channels, are currently in Istanbul and Ankara.’

The Muslim Brotherhood was declared a terrorist organisation by the Egyptian government in 2013.

El-Saharty said he told Turkish diplomats that ‘it is not hard for the Turkish security forces to find out where those channels are being broadcasted from.’

In September Turkish media quoted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying that his country welcomes senior figures from Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood after they were asked to leave Qatar under pressure from other Gulf states.

El-Saharty renewed calls for immediate deportation of those members of the Brotherhood against whom Interpol has issued a red notice.

Relations between Egypt and Turkey have deteriorated since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

The Turkish leader Erdogan has emerged as one of the fiercest critics of Morsi’s ouster, repeatedly describing the transition as a ‘coup’ and criticising the world’s ‘inaction’ towards the Egyptian government’s crackdown on Islamists, which has seen hundreds killed and thousands jailed.

However, according to a report by the Israeli MEMRI:

On February 2, 2015, non-Islamist Turkish media outlets reported that calls for killing Egyptian security officials and threats against Egypt were being issued by Muslim Brotherhood (MB) operatives in Turkey. The independent Turkish daily Cumhuriyet wrote that three Istanbul-based television channels – Rabia TV, Al-Sharq, and Misir Al-A’an – belonging to MB operatives have been broadcasting threats and warnings against a major conference on investment to be held in Cairo in mid-March 2015. The next day, February 3, Hurriyet Daily News published a report titled “Turkish Foreign Ministry Backs Egyptian Broadcasters In Turkey.”

Read the full report here.

The GMBDW reported in December 2014 on the launch of multiple new Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated TV stations, mostly located in Turkey and said to be financially supported by Qatar.

A 2011 report report authored by the GMBDW editor concluded that since 2006, Turkey has become a new center for the Global Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. 

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Turkish website R4BIA.com - "R4BIA is the end of Zionists." 

A New Muslim Brotherhood Symbol: R4BIAHT: MiddleEastWritings.by DawnPerlmutter

FrontPageMagazine.com. September 9, 2013 Turkish website R4BIA.com - "R4BIA is the end of Zionists." 

A section of the website that reveals the true significance of the R4BIA symbol and the fledgling movement posits the question: "What is R4BIA?" The anonymous web master claims the responses were compiled from a selection of interpretations provided by Muslims around the world. They read:

R4BIA is a symbol of freedom
R4BIA is the birth of a new movement for freedom and justice
R4BIA is the birth of a new world
R4BIA is the return of Muslims to world stage
R4BIA means justice, freedom and conscience
R4BIA is the place where the so-called values of the West collapsed
R4BIA means the Egyptian heroes who became free by dying
R4BIA is Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the whole geography of Islam
R4BIA is the name of those who wake all the Islamic world with their death
R4BIA is the place of people who show the death is a revival
R4BIA is our daughter Asma
R4BIA is the grandchildren of Hasan Al Banna
R4BIA is the new name of our children who will change the world
R4BIA is a new breath to humanity
R4BIA is justice for everyone against rotten Western values
R4BIA is the soul of a free man and a free woman
R4BIA is the tear, the sadness, the sobbing
R4BIA is the joy, the happiness, the good news
R4BIA is the child, the woman, the young, the old
R4BIA is a man like a man
R4BIA is straight as an Aleef, humble as Waw
R4BIA is a pure martyrdom
R4BIA is a new world
R4BIA is Ummah
R4BIA is solidarity, togetherness, brotherhood
R4BIA is unification of Islamic World
R4BIA is the shame of the accomplice of the massacres
R4BIA is the end of munafiqeen who support the massacres
R4BIA is the end of oil sheikhs
R4BIA is the end of capitalists
R4BIA is the end of Zionists
R4BIA is the end of immoral press
RABIA is the arena of martyrdom
R4BIA is the mother of martyrs
R4BIA is a smiling martyrdom

Many activists on social media have confirmed that the sign originated in Turkey, which officially opposed the military coup in Egypt. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan was one of the first to promote the R4BIA hand sign during a speech on August 17 when he saluted crowds several times with the four-finger sign. 

Turkish footballers also began to use the hand sign after scoring goals, soon after the symbol became popular on Turkish social media. It used to take years, sometimes decades, for a symbol to achieve global recognition, however, in the age of technology, with Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the Internet, this new Islamist sign went viral in days. 

Although the R4BIA symbol may have originally signified solidarity with massacred protesters, the meaning and the imagery has rapidly been radicalized to embody the primary concepts of Islamist propaganda: honor, heroism and martyrdom in the goal of establishing an Islamic caliphate. Images of the R4BIA symbol now include the fingers being depicted as rifles, the hand holding the black flag of jihad and writing on the hand calling for an Islamic Caliphate.

2. Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Satellite Channel Launches From Turkey; Qaradawi Opens Program.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s new satellite channel, ‘Rabaa,’ launched Friday and is being aired from Turkey, reported Al-Ahram Arabic website. The channel is named after Cairo’s Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square, where hundreds were killed when security forces forcibly dispersed 14 August a sit-in held by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.

The channel’s sign is the four-finger Rabaa sign that Brotherhood and Morsi loyalists use in regular ongoing protests against what they describe as a ‘coup against the legtitimate president’ in Egypt.

3. Muslim Brotherhood's new TV channel unlikely to influence viewers

The Rabaa TV channel is in its early days, but already stirring widespread debate — even sarcasm — among some Egyptians. An overtly anti-regime channel broadcasting from Istanbul in support of the Muslim Brotherhood seems an intriguing concept for young Egyptians, but to the surprise of many, it is not new. Egypt has witnessed similar projects in the past, and the outcome of this one will probably be the same: loud noise that will fade with time.

Egyptian media outlets close to the Egyptian authorities accuse the channels of Egypt Now, Rabaa, Mekameleen, and Sharq – all of which are based in Turkey and broadcast via French satellites – of being affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and of inciting hatred and violence. These channels dismiss such accusations. Hmmmm.....YES WE LIE !!