How is Erdogan’s ‘success formula’ related to the Tunisian Ennahda’s money-laundering case?

Something critical is missing from the coverage of Ennahda cases in Tunisia and Turkey

Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Tunisian Ennahda Islamist party, departs his home to go to the offices of Tunisia's counter-terrorism prosecutor in the capital Tunis, September 20, 2022. (AFP)

Rachid Ghannouchi, Ennahda's 81-year-old president and one of the foremost ideologues of political Islam, appeared before a court in Sousse in November and was heard for 14 hours as part of a money-laundering and incitement to violence investigation. The investigation began in June 2022, and the bank accounts of Ghannouchi and a dozen of his family members, including his son Moaz and son-in-law, former Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdeselam, were frozen. Moaz Ghannouchi and Abdesselam had left Tunisia. Since then, Rachid Ghannouchi has been barred from leaving the country as part of another investigation into the assassinations of two leftist leaders, Mohamed Brahmi and Chokri Belaid, in 2013.

Several investigations into Ghannouchi and Ennahda members are currently underway. The Instalingo cas…