Kosovo 'Broke Law' When Deporting Turkish 'Gulenists'

The parliamentary commission probing the highly controversial deportation of the six alleged Gulenists to Turkey in March last year said on Tuesday that it is sending a file to the prosecutor's office in Pristina detailing 31 breaches of laws and procedures.

"Having the information that some national institutions have committed a criminal offence, we will send it to the prosecution," Driton Selmanaj, the joint head of the commission, told a press conference.

The commission found that most of the breaches were committed by the Kosovo Intelligence Agency and the Kosovo Police, but also the Department of Civil Aviation, said Xhelal Svecla, the other joint head of the commission.

Two people also gave false information to the commission and should face charges, the commission chiefs said.

The six Turks deported last March were wanted by Ankara over their alleged links to the exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen's movement, which Turkey calls the 'Fethullahist Terror Organisation, or FETO, and blames for a failed coup in 2016.

Turkey had said its secret service conducted the operation in cooperation with Kosovo's security and intelligence institutions.

But after Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj complained that the Turks had been deported without his knowledge, he axed the director of the Intelligence Agency, Driton Gashi, and the Interior Minister, Flamur Sefaj.

On Tuesday, Selmanaj also complained that the parliamentary commission's work had been obstructed, saying that some official documents that it requested were not provided, and criticised President Hashim Thaci for his alleged unwillingness to report to the parliamentary body.

"We had obstruction from the governing parties to doing our job properly. We have requested an...