According to the authors of a new Sic! article, the case of the seven Turkish citizens who were arrested by the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS) in the morning of September 6 and got to Turkish jails the next day reveals not only the lack of scruples in the Moldovan authorities when they fulfil the agenda (political and/or not only), but also their incapacity to assume responsibility or to converse with the public on a subject that is very important from both angles: either it is about serious violation of human rights or it is about the national security, as the authorities claim.
“The President, Prime Minister, Speaker and institution heads either stammer or resort to manipulation, either hide information or openly lie. Anyway, responses to the most important questions about this case are absent: how is it possible for the Republic of Moldova to kidnap and hand over people to a regime that is known to be in conflict with the human rights? What is the connection between this case and the growing friendship between Chișinău and Ankara? If we speak about the undesirability of the seven on Moldova’s territory, why are they so ‘desirable’ for the Turkish authorities that boast of the success of their intelligence services in this case?” wonder the authors of the article that is quoted by IPN.
The article says that even if the event generated serious accusations against the state institutions responsible for security, President Igor Dodon, who is the guarantor of Moldova’s sovereignty and the president of the Supreme Security Council, in a first reaction on Facebook only accused the press of double standards. He said there were uglier expulsions, based on strictly political criteria, giving as example the Russian diplomats who were expelled at the request of London, as he said. Dodon also said that then the government fulfilled the request of the West and the press kept silent or applauded. Later, an adviser to the President informed that the Head of State asked for conclusive information from the SIS about the expulsion of the seven “as a matter of urgency”.
The first reaction of Prime Minister Pavel Filip was also far from care for the kidnapped people. He requested the Ministry of Education to make sure that the education process at the private lyceum where the expelled Turks worked continues appropriately and asked for additional information about this case from the SIS.
As the Speaker of Parliament, which is the body that manages the SIS, Andrian Candu also made himself heard, first on September 6, when he asked the commission on security to stage hearings and question the SIS chief. The public entered the weekend with expectations. On September 8, after the commission’s meeting, Candu himself “communicated” the results. He referred not to one subject, but to three subjects, mingling the fate of the seven persons who were kidnapped and handed over a foreign state, the education process at “Orizont” (again) and the protests and threats faced by Moldova’s diplomatic service abroad.
“It is almost incredible, but the Speaker pretends to be knowing nothing, when everyone knows about the Ankara regime’s efforts to persecute the Gulen supporters from the diaspora. From Malaysia to Georgia and from Mongolia to Kosovo, school principals and teachers are kidnapped or arrested and then handed over to the Turkish regime practically by the same model. Only authorities’ reactions differ. The Mongolians dare to free a teacher kidnapped by the Turkish services and to force a Turkish plane sent after that teacher to land, while the Moldovan senior officials speak about cases that came of age long ago,” says the Sic! article.
The authors also say that in constitutional democracies, a government does not allow and does not help foreign agents to settle accounts with citizens who are “undesirable” on their territories. It is a matter of sovereignty that is related to the image of the state. When the government violates these basic rules, this should at least be able to explain to the people what happened. Dismissals, penalties and guarantees that something like this will not repeat should follow.
The full article in the Romanian can be read here.
