Total collapse of Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey

Turkey has revoked the citizenship of Muslim Brotherhood’s Istanbul faction acting leader Mahmoud Hussein. The government canceled his and his wife’s passports due to violating the conditions of their citizenship.

Sources affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey revealed that the government, following Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent visit to Egypt, also revoked the citizenship of 50 other top officials. Investigations revealed they had tampered with the conditions of their permits.

Since the start of negotiations to normalize relations with Egypt and entering an advanced stage in 2021, leading to the culmination of these efforts with Erdogan’s visit to Cairo last week, the Turkish authorities imposed restrictions on Brotherhood leaders.

They prevented them from making media statements against Egypt and the Gulf states.

Turkey also imposed restrictions on the Muslim Brotherhood’s mouthpiece channels, which for about ten years have continued to attack the political leadership and Egyptian authorities and incite violence.

Many of the leaders and workers in these channels left Turkey and some channels relocated to London.

After the first meeting between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Erdogan in Doha in late 2022, the Turkish authorities tightened restrictions on granting nationalities and scrutinizing the open residency campaign.

Authorities rejected the citizenship requests of individuals convicted of terrorism cases in Egypt.