Inside the Muslim Brotherhood

⁣Since the July 2013 overthrow of the Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi as president of Egypt, Erdoğan has sought to provide a safe haven for persecuted members of the movement These efforts have increased since Qatar’s Gulf neighbors imposed a blockade in June 2017, in large part because of Doha’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood Today, the dozens of Ikhwan figures living in exile in Turkey are some the movement’s most powerful and influential figures These Brotherhood leaders and their relatives live a comfortable life, under the protection of the Erdoğan administration “Turkey is the place to meet and find a safe harbor,” he said “It‘s even safer than Qatar It‘s the safe haven”