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By MP Dr Abdillahi Hashi Abib
Somalia president Hassan Sheikh every time you speak, you confirm one undeniable truth: you are not a voice for the Somali people. You are a Turkish citizen hired by Erdogan to act as a propaganda tool for Ankara’s colonial ambitions in Somalia. You were embedded by a foreign government to serve its interests, not ours.
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Your frantic attacks on any Somali Member of Parliament who refuses to bow to a $1,000 bribe from the Turkish Embassy in Mogadishu say everything. You are not here to defend Somalia. You are here to silence those who do. You are not a supporter of Somalia. You are a paid mouthpiece – an imported enforcer of Erdoğan’s empire-building project on African soil.
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Whether I attend a session of the House of the People – which, thanks to people like you, has been reduced to a theatre of foreign-backed puppetry – is beside the point. What matters is that I will not stay silent while Somalia is robbed in broad daylight by a Turkey regime dressed up as a development partner.
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Let’s speak the truth. Turkey came in 2011 with cameras and food aid, with speeches of brotherhood. But behind the staged charity and food aid, it constructed an extraction machine. Corrupt Somali elites, money laundered through Ziraat Bank, fake infrastructure deals – it’s a textbook case of neo-imperial theft. This is not development. This is economic rape.
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And you – you attack every Somali who dares to name it. Why? Because truth threatens your paycheck. Because you weren’t hired to tell the truth – you were sent here to drown it in propaganda. You scream louder at Somali patriots than you ever have at the looting of our ports, our seas, our land, and our future. That silence is your confession.
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The evidence is coming. I am finalizing the files. The Erdoğan-Ziraat laundering networks, the bribes, the resource giveaways, the embassy deals- everything. And no amount of noise from a foreign Twitter cheerleader will protect you.
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History will draw a clear line: those who defended Somali sovereignty, and those who sold it out for a diplomatic dinner and a photo with a Turkish flag. When the day of reckoning comes – and it will – you will not hide behind your tweets. The law will remember your role in this betrayal.
Your time as a colonial enabler is ending. And Somalia will not forget.