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Samir Karimli, the first deputy executive director of SOCAR Turkey Energy, who has been named in the Turkish press as a member of the Fethullah Gülen community, is a close relative of the former head of the Main Counterintelligence Department of the Ministry of National Security of Aze , General -Major Nizami Shirinov, and with his support, Shirinov, the son Samir Kazımlıov, the son of Major General Nizami Kazımlı, was appointed to this position. who was recently dismissed and brought under investigation and will be held accountable. S. Karimli’s father, Arif Karimov, known in society as “Haji Arif”, is the owner of the “Levis” chain of stores located in the center of Baku.

An informed source reports that Samir Karimli, who graduated from a Turkish high school and then continued his education in the United States, is indeed a member of the Fethullah Gülen community.

It should be noted that a few days ago, the Turkish newspaper “Sabah” presented Samir Karimli, the first deputy executive director of “SOCAR Turkey Energy”, a subsidiary of the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR in Turkey, in an investigative article as a member of the Fethullah Gülen community, which is currently recognized as a “terrorist organization” by the AKP government.

The newspaper writes that the “parallel structure”, that is, Fethullah Gülen and his sect, have placed their people in SOCAR, which plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in the Turkish energy sector in order to have a say in the energy sector. For this purpose, the “parallel state” has formed a special structure in SOCAR through individuals called “White Turks”. In this way, the Gulenists want to squeeze companies close to the AKP from the Turkish energy sector and take control of this sector.

The article states that one of the Fethullahists in SOCAR is Fatih Yiğit, the company’s chief legal advisor in Turkey. He is the son-in-law of Gulen’s personal doctor and has a strong influence on Samir Karimli, the first deputy executive director of “SOCAR Turkey Energy”. If any of the sect’s demands need to be conveyed to the Azerbaijani leaders of SOCAR, they do so with the help of Fatih Yiğit.

F. Yiğit was in the US a few months ago and after returning, he carried out lobbying activities to identify AKP supporters in SOCAR.

It is reported that one of Ankara’s main demands from Baku is to put an end to the activities of Fethullahists organized in SOCAR, which has large investments in Turkey. Among them, Samir Karimli is mentioned in particular. In addition to being close to Fethullah Gulen, he also has close ties with the US.

The “Sabah” newspaper also writes that Samir Karimli was behind the transfer of Gulen schools run by the “Çağ Öztürtim” company to SOCAR under the pretext of closing them. He also controls the companies that serve SOCAR as contractors.

With the help of these contracting companies, S. Karimli gives a share of the tenders and work done to businessmen belonging to the Gulen sect, thereby providing financial support to the “parallel state”.

The source says that Samir Karimli is also in close relations with Mustafa Ozcan, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the “Sema” clinic, known as the “right-hand man” and heir of Fethullah Gulen. M. Ozcan is also the owner of the “Nil” chain of stores in Baku and has been to Azerbaijan many times. The source says that Samir Karimli repeatedly organized meetings between Mustafa Ozcan and Nizami Shirinov. They first met in 2008 at the Excelsior Hotel in Baku. These relations continued in subsequent years. With the active support of N. Shirinov, Samir Karimli was appointed First Deputy Executive Director of SOCAR Turkey Energy. S. Karimli, in turn, managed to get his nephew Etibar Baloglanov (Agalar) to head one of SOCAR’s subsidiaries in Turkey.

The Azerbaijani security general’s contacts with one of the closest people known as the successor to Fethullah Gulen – Mustafa Ozcan – are of interest. It is difficult to say whether these relations are based on business interests or other goals.