On Aug. 4, the day before an assassination attempt on Egypt's former Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, four Turkish intelligence officers infiltrated the Sinai Peninsula and were arrested by Egyptian security forces. Several hours before the assassination attempt, the Huffington Post Arabi website, which is headquartered in Istanbul, published segments of an extended interview with Mehmet Gormez, the head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate, concerning the ties between Gomaa and the Fethullah Gulen movement. Turkish authorities have accused the latter of being responsible for the failed coup against the government in July.

Is this evidence enough to point accusing fingers in Ankara’s direction for the assassination attempt?

It all started Aug. 5, when Gomaa headed to a mosque for Friday prayer. A number of armed men fired shots at him. After Gomaa escaped, the Hasm movement claimed responsibility for the operation through their official accounts on Facebook and Twitter.

The Hasm movement’s official social media pages were launched over a year and a half ago. They have been active against the Muslim Brotherhood opposition, but for most of that time, all their activity was conducted online. Perhaps for that reason the pages were never closed. However, they reportedly launched their first terrorist operation in July, claiming responsibility for an assassination attempt targeting the chief investigator at the Tamiya police station in Fayoum. The operation was carried out in the same style as the attempted assassination of Gomaa: a burst of gunfire directed at the target.