Top state officials in Kosovo to be interviewed for Gylenists

On March 29th of this year, at the request of Turkish authorities, Kosovo Police had arrested and deported six Turkish citizens to Turkey, five of them employees at the “Mehmet Akif” school, while the six-doctor expelled.

The investigative commission, which has been operational in July, with the proposal of the Democratic League of Kosovo and the support of parliamentary parties, is designed to investigate and illuminate the circumstances and procedures of the expulsion of six Turkish citizens from Kosovo to Turkey.

Xhelal Svecla, chairman of the Independence Commission from the Vetevendosje Movement, in a conversation for Radio Free Europe, shows that the Commission is currently in the phase of interviewing witnesses involved in the process.

So far, Svecla says, officials have been interviewed at the Kosovo Police Inspectorate, namely, chief chief chief with her team, while other officials are expected to be interviewed.

We will now go through the interview of other officials, such as Internal Affairs Ministry officials and then pass to the Kosovo Police, the Kosovo Intelligence Agency and turn around will come to all institutions that have been involved in this case or have knowledge to give evidence of this case”, Svechla said.

After the interview ended, according to Svecla, it will be passed to the stage of a review of the report's evidence and compile, which is expected at the beginning of December to be sent to the Kosovo Assembly for approval.

I am optimistic that we as the Commission, but also as the Kosovo Assembly, will come up with clear attitudes and with a fair reflection of what happened that day along with recommendations on how to prevent in the future”.

Normally, he emphasises, “will be required to take steps against those who have contributed to the greatest violation of sovereignty by Kosovo's own institutions since declaring independence”.

Six Turkish citizens, expelled from Kosovo, Ankara charges them with allegedly being members of the organisation “Hizmet” of Turkish religious leader Fetullah Gulen and blames him for staying behind a try-pucci in July 2016.

The outcasts' family expect the parliamentary investigative Commission to present concrete evidence and identify the responsible persons who have taken the move, says Urim Vokshi, the lawyer of one of the six families of Turkish citizens.

The parliamentary investigative commission expects us to investigate the case and clear all its details. All that has happened on March 29th has occurred in an informative darkness, both for family members and lawyers and for the heads of institutions. Everything happened in secret”.

So we expect from the Commission under its competencies, to investigate and whitewash all the actions that have taken place and to investigate who the responsible persons who have caused, this scandal to say in the world Sosa, and who has given a very bad image of Kosovo”, Vokshi says.

On the day of the expulsion of six Turkish citizens from Kosovo to Turkey, as a co-ordinated action between intelligence services from Turkey and Kosovo, not only MPs, but also the president, prime minister and speaker of the Parliament had declared they had no knowledge about the case.

Their deportation had prompted different reactions of local and international institutions, namely by human rights organisations, which have condemned the action of Kosovo institutions.