Military coup in Turkey: 'coup attempt' by part of army fizzled

[NeedleThreader]

Shooting is being reported in the Turkish capital, Ankara, with military jets and helicopters seen in the sky above the city.

According to reports on Twitter, the authorities have closed the two Bosporus bridges in Istanbul, where military jets have also been spotted flying.

https://www.rt.com/news/351334-ankara-shooting-jets-helicopters/

Could this be the beginning of a military coup of Turkey in response to Nice, France??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/15/turkey-low-flying-jets-and-gunfire-heard-in-ankara1/


UPDATE:

Part of the military is attempting a coup in Turkey, the country’s Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said, following reports of military jets and helicopters flying low over Ankara and Istanbul.

A military helicopter has reportedly opened fire in the district of Ankara where the Turkish National Intelligence Organization headquarters is situated.

[Calz]

You are correct!

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Military Coup Underway Against Turkish President Erdogan

Facebook and Twitter services were blocked in Ankara on Friday, RIA-Novosti reported

RT.com - July 15, 2016


Part of the military is attempting a coup in Turkey, the country’s Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said, following reports of military jets and helicopters flying low over Ankara and Istanbul.

A military helicopter has reportedly opened fire in the district of Ankara where the Turkish National Intelligence Organization headquarters is situated.

According to Yıldırım, Turkish security forces are currently doing what needs to be done to resolve the situation.

Shooting is being reported in the Turkish capital, Ankara, with military jets and helicopters seen in the sky above the city.



http://www.infowars.com/shooting-heard-in-ankara-military-jets-helicopters-flying-over-city-witnesses/

[PathWalker]

Turkish Military Says It Has Seized Control From Ankara Government
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/turkey/1.731225

Turkish prime minister says attempted military coup underway; military jets and helicopters seen flying low over Ankara and tanks reported in the streets; two major bridges in Istanbul are closed to traffic.

A group within Turkey's military has attempted to overthrow the government and security forces have been called in to "do what is necessary," Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday.
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Turkish security officers detain police officers on the side of the road on July 15, 2016 in Istanbul, during a security shutdown of the Bosphorus

"Some people illegally undertook an illegal action outside of the chain of command," Yildirim said in comments broadcast by private channel NTV. "The government elected by the people remains in charge. This government will only go when the people say so."

Those behind the attempted coup would pay the highest price, he added.

The Turkish military released a statement that it had taken over in the name of democratic order, adding that all existing foreign relations will continue and human rights will remain.

This is from Israel MSM.
Also read on UK MSM
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/turkey-coup-live-updates-explosion-8431256

[Tangri]

General Staff informational purposes only uses information from the e-mail address "to the country's leadership was fully seized" expression was used.
Description text is as follows:
"The Turkish Armed Forces constitutional order, democracy, human rights and freedoms and plant supplied again; The judge again made the rule of law in the country; the re-establishment of order and completely disrupted the public order confiscation of land management for the purpose.
All international agreements and our commitment remains valid. with all countries of the world, we hope to continue our good relationship. "
http://www.sozcu.com.tr/2016/gundem/tsk-yonetime-el-koydu-1316004/

[Eric J (Viking)]

Things are really hotting up...everywhere!..military takes over.

https://www.rt.com/news/351343-turkey-coup-military-attempt/

Viking

[seko]

Is this the end of Erdogan??

He thought he was going to bring down the Syrian government, with the help of ISIS, USA and the EU just like Gaddafi's Libya. But he was mistaken.
He wasn't counting on Russia. V. Putin gave him a big surprise and ended his Sultan's dream of a new Ottoman empire.

Interesting times.

[Flash]

Finally, I hope they succeed.

The Turkish constitution gives the army the right and duty to protect the constitution when the generals think that the president or the house of the country does not respect the constitutional rules. The Turkish army has done that a few times in the past, and usually gives back the voting rights to the population a few years later.

This is not a coup like it usually is in South America for example.

This is more what it would be if the armies in the West were protecting our constitutions due to rampant corruption and anti-constitutional actions of the governments and its leaders.

At least, this is what many progressive Turks would say.

From what Tangri has posted, I believe I am right in what I am saying.



You are correct!

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Military Coup Underway Against Turkish President Erdogan

Facebook and Twitter services were blocked in Ankara on Friday, RIA-Novosti reported

RT.com - July 15, 2016


Part of the military is attempting a coup in Turkey, the country’s Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said, following reports of military jets and helicopters flying low over Ankara and Istanbul.

A military helicopter has reportedly opened fire in the district of Ankara where the Turkish National Intelligence Organization headquarters is situated.

According to Yıldırım, Turkish security forces are currently doing what needs to be done to resolve the situation.

Shooting is being reported in the Turkish capital, Ankara, with military jets and helicopters seen in the sky above the city.



http://www.infowars.com/shooting-heard-in-ankara-military-jets-helicopters-flying-over-city-witnesses/

[Tangri]

Facebook , tweeter, YouTube are operating normal right now. It shows that small part of the army responding to the military coup with only 2 cities Istanbul and Ankara.

Joint Chiefs of Staff is arrested. (he refused to give the coup order.)

In 5 hours Martial law will be in force. Local time 5.00 am if they control police forces.

[Feritciva]

You are definitely right Flash. These charlatans - who are by far the most dangerous and hideous politicians ever seen in modern Turkish history - have to go but this seems like false flag - a staged event. There's no problem on the streets of Istanbul at the moment but only "news of military control" in some mainroads. I'm afraid tomorrow they may say "a coup has been attempted but not succeed. Erdogan is more powerful than ever". Typical problem - reaction - solution routine.. This might cause the real rise of radical politic Islam in Turkey - and of course it would not stay here. All Europe is also under danger.

[bluestflame]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-15/martial-law-declared-turkey-helicopters-military-jets-flying-over-capital-army-tanks


Update - The army is now in control.

TURKEY ARMED FORCES SAY THEY'VE TAKEN CONTROL OF COUNTRY
TURKEY ARMED FORCES: TOOK CONTROL TO RESTORE FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY
TURKEY ARMED FORCES: WE GUARANTEE VALIDITY OF ALL INTNL DEALS
CAVUSOGLU: WE WILL PROTECT DEMOCRACY UNTIL THE END
TURKISH WARPLANES FLY LOW OVER CAPITAL ANKARA
Full statement:



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Shooting and explosions are being reported in the Turkish capital, Ankara, with military jets and helicopters seen in the sky above the city. According to Reuters, gunfire and explosions could be heard in the capital, where jets have been heard flying overhead, while bridges heading into Istanbul have been currently shut down.

According to AP, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says a group within the military engaged in an attempted coup.

Flashing red Bloomberg headlines confirm as much.

TURKISH PRIME MINISTER SAYS UPRISING ERUPTS WITHIN ARMY RANKS
YILDIRIM: THERE IS AN UPRISING WITHIN ARMY RANKS
YILDIRIM: SOME TURKISH ARMY UNITS SIEGED SOME INSTITUTIONS
TURKISH POLICE ORDERED TO USE ARMS IF NECESSARY: YILDIRIM
TURKISH STATE-RUN TRT TV SHUT DOWN
GUNSHOTS HEARD NEAR PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN ANKARA
*EXPLOSION HEARD NEAR TURKISH POLICE ACADEMY IN ANKARA'S GOLBASI
Curiously, the PM refuses to call this coup attempt a coup. Meanwhile president Erdogan is on holiday in the resort town of Bodrum.

As is the norm in Turkey, all social networks Twitter Facebook and YouTube have been shut down, as has the state TV.

As Reuters reported moments ago, Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge were both closed on Friday, local television channels reported, without giving a reason. Dogan News Agency footage showed cars and buses being diverted. CNN Turkey showed two military vehicles and a group of soldiers lined up at the entrance of one of the bridges in Turkey's biggest city. A Turkish official who did not want to be named said soldiers had been deployed in other cities in Turkey, but did not specify which ones. Dogan News Agency reported the national police directorate summoned all police to duty in Ankara.

The signs were obvious earlier. Gabriel Turner, 23, a management consultant from north London, who was on holiday in Istanbul, described to the Telegraph how there had been heavy police and security presence throughout the day before the military coup got underway after sunset.

"Earlier today there were police everywhere. I thought that was normal but the two Turkish girls I was with told me it wasn't normal. We were walking around the centre of Istanbul, at the Grand Bazaar there were police at every entrance and exit with lots of guns.

"A police helicopter was flying very low at sunset, it was about 8pm. It looked like it was searching for something. Later on, at about 10.30 I was in Karakoy, a bar area in the city centre and everyone started looking at their phones. A man who owns the bar told us that the army are taking over everything.

"Then we walked down towards the a quieter area by the sea. While we were walking, my friend said the army had closed brides across the Bosphorus. We could see army helicopters in the sky.

"We went inside a cafe and everyone was on their phones looking worried, texting. Lots of people were running to catch a ferry - because the bridges were shutting and people wanted to get home. Then policemen came out of the ferries on their walkie talkies, looking very alert."

[Star Tsar]

Erdogan out! Glad to see this hoping for few casualties.

[Cidersomerset]

Turkish army 'takes over power'

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Turkey army group announces takeover on TV

10 minutes ago

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36809083

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Turkey coup attempt: tanks in the streets in Ankara and Istanbul, "Erdogan taken by surprise"

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Published on 15 Jul 2016

Turkey coup attempt: tanks in the streets in Ankara and Istanbul, "Erdogan taken by surprise"

[Hervé]

Gunfire, military helicopters in Ankara, PM says 'coup attempt' by part of army underway (https://www.rt.com/news/351334-ankara-shooting-jets-helicopters/)
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Part of the military is attempting a coup in Turkey, the country’s Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said, following reports of military jets and helicopters flying low over Ankara and Istanbul.

"Some people took illegal action outside of the chain of command," Yildirim told news network NTV. "The government elected by the people remains in charge. This government will only go when the people say so," he added.

According to the PM, Turkish security forces were doing what needs to be done to resolve the situation.

The Turkish military has issued a statement saying that it has taken over power in the country from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“Turkish Armed Forces have completely taken over the administration of the country to reinstate constitutional order, human rights and freedoms, the rule of law and general security that was damaged,” the statement read.

CNN Turk later reported that president Erdogan, was safe, despite claims by the military that they’ve taken over.

According to Reuters, the coup attempt occurred when Erdogan was on vacation outside the country.

According to various reports, a curfew has been declared in Turkey amid the ongoing attempted coup.

State-run Anadolu news agency reported that the Turkish military chief of staff, Hulusi Akar, was among those taken hostage by the pro-coup forces in Ankara. The hostages are being held at military HQ in the capital.

The office of Erdogan’s ruling AKP party in Istanbul has been surrounded by soldiers, according to Twitter reports.




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AKP HQ office in Istanbul has been surrounded by military.


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Earlier, a military helicopter has reportedly opened fire in the district of Ankara where the Turkish National Intelligence Organization headquarters is situated.

According to local news agencies, a large number of ambulance vehicles has been sent towards the Turkish General Staff building in the capital.

Ankara’s mayor, Ibrahim Melih Gokcek, used Twitter to call on all the citizens to take to the streets.

“Everybody to the streets,” he wrote.

Shooting is being reported in the Turkish capital, Ankara, with military jets and helicopters seen in the sky above the city.


omar r quraishi ‏@omar_quraishi (https://twitter.com/omar_quraishi) Curfew seems to have been enforced in Istanbul - army troops asking people to go home


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According to reports on Twitter, the authorities have closed the two Bosporus bridges in Istanbul, where military jets have also been spotted flying.




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Turkish soldiers block both bridges on the Bosphorus in Istanbul and jets flying low in Ankara. Reason not clear yet


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All flights were cancelled at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul where tanks were deployed on Friday night.




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Istanbul Ataturk Airport.


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Facebook and Twitter services were blocked in Ankara on Friday, RIA-Novosti reported.

According to local media, all security personnel have been urgently called in to work.

Turkish state-run television network TRT has been shut down, Bloomberg reported.

[Hervé]

Maybe some will take a few hints from these Young Turks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks)... you know... the fauna ecosystem living in and around the Pentagon...

[Cidersomerset]

Turkish military declares takeover of country (Special coverage)

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Military helicopters are flying over Turkey's capital Ankara, with shot fired,
according to witness reports. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says a
group within the military engaged in an attempted coup,

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[Sophocles]

Sputniknews: Erdogan Blames Gulenist Network, Calls on Public to Fight in Public Squares (http://sputniknews.com/news/20160716/1043079784/Erdogan-coup-statement.html)

Wikipedia: Gülen movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClen_movement)

BFP Exclusive- William Engdahl on Operation Gladio, Fethullah Gülen & One World Government (feb. 2015) (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2015/02/10/bfp-exclusive-william-engdahl-on-operation-gladio-fethullah-gulen-one-world-government/):


What I find interesting is how a deep and now bitter split has emerged between Gülen Cemaat in Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. I believe Erdogan began to pursue his own agenda and that came in collision with that of the CIA and State Department for Turkey in the larger world. -William Engdahl-

[Hervé]

SOTT Comment: (https://www.sott.net/article/322207-Breaking-news-Military-coup-under-way-in-Turkey-Jets-troops-helicopters-surround-government-buildings) Things be heating up! Erdogan looks like he has sung his last tune (https://www.rt.com/news/351373-erdogan-cnn-turk-coup-announcement/).

This coup attempt comes after a dramatic turnaround in Turkish-Russian relations in the last couple of weeks, with Erdogan doing a 180-degree turn to say that Turkey would now cooperate with Russia against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

And now this.

20th century Turkey has had a number of military coups. A major scandal erupted there once Erdgoan came to power, revealing the existence of a secret network of 'Gladio' operatives (termed 'Ergenekon' in Turkey (https://www.sott.net/article/169957-Mossad-role-in-Turkey-coup-plot-revealed)), who effectively ran the state from the shadows on behalf of the High Cabal of Western Powers.

‌The question is, is this coup because of the very recent change in Erdogan's attitude to Russia and Syria?

Like Joe Quinn wrote last year (https://www.sott.net/article/307233-Always-the-last-to-know-Did-Turkish-government-find-out-about-shoot-down-of-Russian-jet-after-the-fact) about and the shoot-down of the Russian jet last year, the military/civilian intel infrastructure in Turkey is pretty much Gladio/NATO-made and owned.

This is the 5th coup in Turkey in the last 55 years. Turkey has historically been riven with internal factions vying for power. Erdogan and his Freedom and Justice party tried to sideline the other factions. First the Kemalist Turkish nationalists (Turkish military and deep state) who are mainly secular, and second the supporters of the super-rich Turkish businessman Fetullah Gulen who is exiled in the USA and resides there at the pleasure of the CIA, etc.

Who exactly is behind this coup remains to be seen, but Erdogan himself has been pointing the finger at Gulen for a while now, and even blamed him for the shoot down of the Russian plane last year.

If true, then this is a CIA coup. Let's face it, it's not like they are new to the practice.

Erdogan and his coterie were such a bunch of idiots though, so it's hard to not see the back of him as a positive thing.

Interestingly, just two days ago, the French government closed its embassy in Istanbul (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/france-closes-missions-turkey-security-fears-160713131750838.html), citing 'security concerns'.

Another possibility is that Erdogan saw the coup coming, then made a last-ditch effort to buy himself a protector by realigning his government with Russia.

We shall see...

Update 1

The military has taken over (https://www.rt.com/news/351363-turkey-army-invades-tv/) state broadcaster TRT and imposed martial law with the aim of " reinstating constitutional order, human rights and freedoms."

Erdogan appeared via cell phone (https://www.rt.com/news/351373-erdogan-cnn-turk-coup-announcement/) on CNN Turk, saying the coup "will be overcome" and calling on the people to help in any way they can. (Translation: the situation is dire!)

According to Reuters, the coup attempt occurred when Erdogan was on vacation outside the country. In his TV appearance, the president said he was returning to the Turkish capital of Ankara. The authorities would take all"necessary steps," he said, adding that he didn't believe the coup backers would succeed.

There have been unconfirmed reports that Erdogan's plane has been diverted inside the country, but airports in the Turkish capital had already been closed by the military with all flights diverted.

NBC News reported that Erdogan's aircraft has been denied permission to land in Istanbul, citing a source in the US military. The latest report claims that the Turkish president is seeking asylum in Germany. There are reports of gunfire and explosions at police special ops HQ in Ankara and at the state broadcaster. A helicopter was spotted opening fire (https://www.rt.com/news/351384-ankara-trt-explosion-army-coup/) over Ankara. Meanwhile, crowds are angrily confronting the tanks pouring into Ankara...

[Calz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5b0Tyevmc


http://www.infowars.com/is-turkey-coup-going-to-start-european-civil-war/

[thunder24]

...The question is, is this coup because of the very recent change in Erdogan's attitude to Russia and Syria?




exactly my thoughts

[ks4ever]

31 minutes ago - Reports of a Sikorsky helicopter being used by Coup Plotters shot down by Turkish Fighters.
- Imams calling for anti-coup protesters to take to the streets.
26 minutes ago - Pres. Erdogan's palace hit for second time by jet.

[Sean]

Hey. VT is reporting that the Turkish Parliament bldg. was hit with a TACTICAL NUKE.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/07/15/turkish-parliament-nuked-during-coup-attempt/

[Carmody]

the blue flash is all wrong (from my knowledge base-could be wrong) for any known form of conventional explosive. Could have been a thermobaric, but they generally (exclusively) need/require airspace.

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[shaberon]

Due to the events in the Mideast, I have been anticipating this for a while, perhaps also for Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Before making a total turnaround in some of his attitudes the past couple of weeks, Erdogan had fired the head of Intelligence (Hadan Fikan iirc), who had been helping various gangs in Syria. From which the oil smuggling has been well-exposed. Those actions seemed like a man who was about to drop it and run.

In this case I do believe Erdogan was the leader of a regime which sold out Turkish national interests to our Western system. So the coup is genuine. I wish them all success. It probably won't work though.

[Sojourner]

Its a false coup plotted by Erdogan to consolidate more power, classic move. This guy is the biggest thug in the ME.

[Tangri]

It was a fiasco.

Bunch of amateurs gave the gear rise for radicalism. All upper rank military officers were leashed long time ago(blackmailed or tamed) and they did not support the uprising today. Government pushed the public to the street like a well staged play.
Everything as usual now. They arrested involved low rank officers.

Now Turkish televisions show that, Jihad i civilians arrested 20 years age of soldiers with bare hand, chanting radical slogans.

http://www.sozcu.com.tr/2016/gundem/erdogan-konusuyor-132-1316681/

[Tangri]

As I understood, Turkish President blaming Fethullah Gulen supporters from Military who would suppose to be forced retirement at Agust 30.

PS; Fethullah Guven is living at Pensivania, USA with CIA protection.:facepalm:

[Eric J (Viking)]

Stories on Sky News now saying Ergoden back in control...😕

News lately here in UK is one conflict after an other...the wheels on the bus go round and round and repetitive negative stories keeps the masses in check.....grrrr

Viking

[ghostrider]

This could be a game changer...

[Feritciva]

People, this was the biggest theatre since 9/11 for us. Most people think like that. Some believe this was an attmept of Gulenist deep state. Everything is as usual in Istanbul this morning. But there was more problems in Ankara, it seems. The parliament bombing was in Ankara, not Istanbul.

Whether this is a genuine coup attempt or a staged thing (very likeliy) it will be very useful for radicalists. Alex Jones may be right, this may be the beginning of a very restless era in Europe.

[Baby Steps]

I wonder what emergency powers Erdogan will give himself?

[Tangri]

I wonder what emergency powers Erdogan will give himself?

Good catch. Probably target is the Presidential system. One man government.:bigsmile:

[sunwings]

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The EU has badly let down Turkey during the Refugee Crisis. Glad to see the people have stopped the Coup. For right or wrong the people of Turkey need to Unify not be diversified.

[Cidersomerset]

RT.....

Over 1,500 arrested, 190 killed, 1,150 injured in Turkish coup attempt


Published time: 16 Jul, 2016 06:33
Edited time: 16 Jul, 2016 09:12


https://www.rt.com/news/351537-turkey-coup-attempt-fails/

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Mass Arrests.....

Some 2,800 soldiers, including high-ranking officers, are arrested over an
attempted coup that is now over, says Turkey's prime minister.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounces a coup attempt
as "treason" and insists he remains in charge after a night of confusion
and violence leaves at least 192 dead.

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Turkey coup attempt: Ankara's presidential palace, parliament building bombed

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Published on 16 Jul 2016

The presidential palace was bombed by an aircraft loyal to military coup leaders,
in Ankara on Friday. The F-16 jet is said to have dropped two bombs on the building,
with local media reporting that numerous people were injured in the attack. The
Turkish Parliament was reportedly 'bombed from the air,' according to Turkey's
state run media, in Ankara on Friday night.

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Turkey coup: Turkish citizens deal with tanks during coup

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Published on 15 Jul 2016

The military in Turkey claims to have taken over the government, detaining the
country’s leaders and seizing buildings amid scenes of tanks on the streets and the
sound of explosions.

[Hervé]

Over 2,800 arrested, 265 killed, 1,440 injured in Turkish coup attempt (https://www.rt.com/news/351537-turkey-coup-attempt-fails/)

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© AFP Turkish solders intervene as people protest against a coup attempt in Istanbul's Taksim Square.

Turkish Prime Minister said that 2,839 soldiers and officers implicated in an overnight coup attempt have been arrested. At least 265 people have been killed, including 104 pro-coup participants, while 1,440 people were injured in military action in Istanbul and Ankara.

According to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, those arrested included ordinary soldiers and high-ranking officers. He added that about 20 of those who planned the overnight coup were killed and 30 more were wounded.

Acting chief of staff of the armed forces Umit Dundar said during a press conference that more than 190 people have been killed since the attempted coup was launched.

“1,563 soldiers were arrested, and 104 military who took part in the coup were killed in clashes. Ninety others were also killed, including 41 [pro-government] police officers, 2 [pro-government] soldiers and 47 civilians,” he said.

Pro-government forces have seized control of the top military HQ building, but there are still some groups of rebels resisting, a Turkish official said on Saturday, as cited by Reuters.

General Hulusi Akar, who heads Turkey’s armed forces, has been rescued from rebel captivity. He was the most senior military official in their hands.

The rebels reportedly have several helicopter gunships in their disposal, but loyalists have threatened to shoot them down as they downed at least one aircraft carrying out attacks on government buildings.

A faction of the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the government on Friday night, employing tanks and attack helicopters. The conspiracy appears to have failed, however, as they didn’t manage to capture any senior government officials and couldn’t win wide support from the Turkish military.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on his civilian supporters to take to the streets of Istanbul, which they did. Rebel soldiers, who called on the population to stay indoors, apparently didn’t have the resolve to launch a full-scale war against civilians in Turkey’s biggest city.

The coup attempt began on Friday night when warplanes and helicopters buzzed over Ankara and rebel troops moved in to seal off the bridges over the Bosphorus Strait.

Tanks attacked several government buildings, including the Turkish parliament, as lawmakers hid in shelters inside the building.

Several airports were shut down and access to social media was blocked in the first hours of turmoil.

The TRT state television and the Turkish branch of CNN were seized and ceased broadcasting.

The tide turned early on Saturday as rebels lost momentum and failed to win support.

Government officials accused Fethullah Gulen, an influential cleric in self-imposed exile in the United States, of instigating the plot. Gulen used to be an ally of Erdogan, but turned into his fierce opponent.

In 2013, Turkey was shaken by a corruption scandal involving senior government figures. Erdogan claimed it had been set up by Gulen and launched a crackdown on his supporters in the police and judiciary.

Even though Erdogan appears to have kept his hold on power, the coup attempt is a clear signal that some of his policies are badly failing, Sreeram Chaullia from the Jindal School of International Affairs told RT.

Under his watch, Turkey has picked a fight with Kurdish insurgents, contributed to the chaos in Syria and Iraq, antagonized Iran and Russia, and to some extent made Turkey a liability to NATO, he explained.

“I have a feeling that this coup is linked to the security crisis. A series of terrorist attacks signal the inability of the Turkish government to stop these attacks. It has angered some sections of the security establishment that believe that they can do a better job because Erdogan is just playing politics with everything,” he said.

Modern Turkey has undergone three successful military coups over its century-long history, the latest in 1980.

The Turkish military has traditionally been the guarantor of the country’s secularity, while Erdogan’s platform is Islamist in nature. Critics accuse the Turkish president of trying to turn the country into an Islamic state with him as its dictatorial head.

Erdogan, who has been in power since 2002, has faced being toppled by the military before, but the alleged plot dubbed Operation Sledgehammer was prevented in 2010 by a series of arrests. Some 300 alleged conspirators were sent to prison at that time.

Turkey is a member of NATO and a key US ally in the region, providing its airbase for the ongoing military campaign in neighboring Syria. It also hosts American nuclear weapons, with an estimated 50 to 90 B61 bombs stored at the Incirlik base.

[Cidersomerset]

Turkey coup attempt: "the plotters failed because they did not capture Erdogan"

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Published on 16 Jul 2016

Turkey coup attempt: "the plot failed because they could not capture Erdogan",
says our correspondent Jasper Mortimer

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RAW: Pro-Erdogan crowds celebrate on tanks after Turkey coup fails

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Published on 16 Jul 2016
Hundreds celebrated on the Bosporus Bridge, on Saturday, after an attempted coup
by parts of the country's military wavered.

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Turkey coup attempt: at least 161 people killed, Parliament bombed by Turkish jets

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Published on 16 Jul 2016

Turkey coup attempt: at least 161 people killed, Parliament bombed by Turkish jets

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Turkey coup: "Erdogan, if winning this coup, will only strengthen his power"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIoEy8q-IA

Published on 15 Jul 2016

Turkey coup: "some new army leaders may have said "enough is enough"" says
middle east analyst Jonathan Paris on FRANCE24

[Cidersomerset]

Erdogan is Corrupt and becoming more despotic....

http://factsonturkey.org/12953/comedian-john-oliver-slams-erdogans-palace/

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John Oliver - Insulting Erdogan

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Published on 18 Apr 2016

From HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
All rights belong to HBO. Check out the official channel here:
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New UK foreign secretary Boris has insulted many UK town and countries over
the years , and is a advocate of free speech and after Erdogan prosecuting journalists in prison for criticising him.....

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Boris Johnson wins The Spectator's 'President Erdogan offensive poetry competition'

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[PurpleLama]

So did Erdogan just orchestrate a false flag drill/ coup in order to consolidate executive power?

[Cidersomerset]

So did Erdogan just orchestrate a false flag drill/ coup in order to consolidate executive power?

Or he found out about it and let it happen from a safe distant ? It does seem odd
the coup leaders did not know where he was ?


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Why did Turkish coup plot fail?

By Paul Kirby
BBC News...4 hours ago
From the section Europe

Soldiers involved in the coup surrender on the bridge over the Bosphorus in Istanbul (16 July)

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Soldiers involved in the coup eventually surrendered on the bridge over the Bosphorus

For several hours on Friday night hundreds of Turkish soldiers appeared to have
taken control of key areas of the main cities of Ankara and Istanbul.

There was little sign of President Recep Erdogan as the plotters took over buildings
and media outlets. They needed to secure the support of the public and especially
the majority of the military.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim appeared to be leading resistance to the coup, but as
most Turks know, it is President Erdogan who wields the power and has designs on
extending it.

If the coup was going to succeed, the conspirators had to keep him out of the
picture and they were unable to do so. "I am the chief commander," he said later.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36814044

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Turkey: Mass arrests after coup bid quashed, says PM

44 minutes ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36813924

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Boris Johnson Urges for calm in Turkey

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Published on 16 Jul 2016
Boris (who is of Turkish descent) urges for calm after Turkey Military Coup

[Sean]

I'm much more concerned about the use of a nuke, albeit a low-yield one, like those some allege were used on the twin towers on 9/11, than I am of the politics behind the coup...if using them is THIS commonplace..imagine if one goes off in the NYC subway..the Santa Monica pier..this should greatly concern everyone.

[Hervé]

Erdogan's reaction to the failed coup may soon make many Turks regret the military’s lack of success. (http://theduran.com/erdogan-isnt-going-take-well/)

Peter Lavelle The Duran (http://theduran.com/erdogan-isnt-going-take-well/) Sat, 16 Jul 2016 12:14 UTC



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The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a politician not known for subtlety. His reaction to the failed coup may soon make many Turks regret the military’s lack of success. Erdogan’s political ambitions are almost without limit. Now his name is the law – backed up with popular support (at least for the time being). Who knows – will he make himself president for life?

[A note on the margin: Was Erdogan behind the coup attempt? This is possible considering how badly it was executed. Whether this is true or not, Erdogan’s powers are now almost boundless].

What we know now is the attempted coup was planned and executed by a small number of army officers. They justified their actions with the following statement:

“Turkish Armed Forces have completely taken over the administration of the country to reinstate constitutional order, human rights and freedoms, the rule of law and general security that was damaged. All international agreements are still valid. We hope that all of our good relationships with all countries will continue.” The irony of these words should be obvious to all: what the plotters hoped to regain for Turkey will certainly be lost as Erdogan exacts his gleeful revenge. The plotters had hoped to restore political stability to the country; the only thing they succeeded in doing is just the opposite.

What can we expect now?

The military will be entirely purged of element not loyal to Erdogan. This is really bad news – the military was the key institution that could exercise a degree of independence and stand up to the president. It will not longer be the Turkish military – it will become Erdogan’s private instrument of enforcement.

Civil liberties, particularly the media, will be assaulted with even greater force. The judiciary – already besieged – may recall the days before the coup attempt as a time of relative freedom.

Turkey’s “Kurd problem” will only worsen and Ankara’s inconsistent policies confronting terrorism will probably generate more terror as a result.

Erdogan’s experiment with democracy and political Islam is now even more confusing. Erdogan now has even more power to decide the limits and uses of Islam in politics. This is dangerous. Established laws and legal enforcement should regulate this and not by personal whim.

Turkey’s strained relations with the EU are now ever more complicated. The only upside for Brussels is Erdogan is a known quantity – more erratic behavior is on order.

For Washington, a successful or failed coup is of no importance. As long as Erdogan is loyal to NATO, the Americans will happily tolerate the Sultan.

Before the coup attempt, the military said Turkish troops would not be sent to Syria. Erdogan’s hands are now free. Is he foolish enough to embark on a military campaign that would most likely fail? Yes, maybe.

Will Erdogan stop or reverse Turkey’s rapprochement with Russia? Probably not – having Turkey at odds with such an important country is detrimental to Erdogan political ambitions.

If the coup had succeeded would have Turkey’s prospects improved? This is possible. Post-failed coup, Turkey’s prospects are indeed grim.

Peter Lavelle is host of RT’s CrossTalk. His views may or may not reflect those of his employer.

[Hervé]

Now, that's completely new and unheard of:

Soldiers Detained in Turkey Thought Coup Was a Training Exercise (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160716/1043128162/soldiers-turkey-coup.html)

Sputnik (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160716/1043128162/soldiers-turkey-coup.html) Middle East (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/) 18:47 16.07.2016
(http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/)(updated 18:50 16.07.2016)
Military Coup Attempt in Turkey (114) (http://sputniknews.com/trend/turkey_military_coup_attempt_2016/)


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Soldiers arrested for participating in an attempted military coup in Turkey told interrogators that they thought they were on exercises when the attempt began, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported.

The group consisting of 10 officers and 67 soldiers was arrested at the Ataturk international airport in Istanbul.

During interrogation, they said they mistook the coup attempt for a training exercise.

"Only when people started to climb the tanks did we realize what was really going on," one of the detainees was quoted as saying by the newspaper (http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/).

According to the soldiers, the colonel, who was in command, ordered to step back when police units arrived.

On Friday, a military coup attempt was carried out in Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan early in the morning on July 16 declared he is in control of the country.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that all coup supporters were identified and would be apprehended as the country was returning to normal life.

Over 180 people were killed and 1,470 were injured during the events, while nearly 3,000 people have already been detained, according to the prime minister.


Related:
Why Turkish Intelligence Agency Failed to Uncover Coup Plot (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160716/1043124874/turkey-military-coup-mit.html)

[turiya]

People are being played with...
Just another CIA-run regime change. Check out the James Corbett interview with Sibel Edmonds... MSM news outlets are the marketing agents for this.

Please Note: The Publication date for this video is January, 2014 - more than 1 year & a half ago. From the description section: Sibel talks about Erdogan's falling out with Fethullah Gülen & the CIA (who helped put him in power), and how 'servicable puppets' are discarded by their shadow government masters when they reach their "expiration date."

Sibel states that Gülen is mostly considered senile, who's has lost most of his mental faculties, and the CIA is mostly using his name as a 'brand' for the little people to believe is leading the charge on this. Yes, the little people are being controlled & will be still further exploited.


Sibel Edmonds Explains
the CIA's "Reverse Engineering" of Erdogan


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAiAFqXPwZ8_________________Late Add_________________

Turkish PM Erdogan:
The Speedy Transformation of an Imperial Puppet
by Sibel Edmonds | January 18, 2014
Source (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/01/18/turkish-pm-erdogan-the-speedy-transformation-of-an-imperial-puppet/)

Sibel Edmonds writes (January 18 2014):
‘Marketing is everything … and everything is marketing’? I know it was originally meant for product sales, because admit it, you can have the best product engineering, financial backing and operational mastery … but in the end the success of your product is determined by how your customers perceive your product-your brand. This principle of marketing applies equally as well to our domestic politics and politicians, and it is equally valid for world politics and leaders. The principle governs one of the main operations of the U.S. Empire: Regime Building & Puppet Installation. Not only that, it is also used in reverse as well. Think of it as reverse engineering. It is very similar: The Empire uses the same principle of marketing to bring down regimes and uninstall puppets. The reversal of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s world and domestic image provides a perfect example of the Empire’s reverse marketing.

As outlined by Sibel Edmonds, take a look at the following list of MSM headlines in the section of her article:
This is How USA-Installed Puppets Go from Democratic Presidents to Despots & Terrorists When Their Time Comes
-- February 16, 2011 - Turkey can model democracy for the Arab world (http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/16/martin.egypt.turkey/) by CNN
Article snipit:

"Erdogan was among the first leaders to call for Mubarak to step down. Nobel winner Mohamed ElBaradei; Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab League; and leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood praise Turkey's example. In Tunisia, prominent opposition leader Rachid Ghannouchi praised Turkey for proving "that Islam and democracy go together."

-- April 14, 2011 - Turkish Democracy: A Model For Other Countries (http://www.npr.org/2011/04/14/135407687/turkish-democracy-a-model-for-other-countries) by "All Things Considered" by NPR Radio

-- June 10, 2011 - "Turkey's 'Good Dictator'" (http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304259304576375743249011516) by the WALL STREET JOURNAL
Article snip:

"In this season of anti-autocratic uprisings in Arab countries, Muslim Turkey is cited so often as a model for how democracy might evolve in those states."-- Oct. 18, 2011 - Turkey is a model for democracy and new relations with the West (http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Commentary/2011/Oct-18/151554-turkey-is-a-model-for-democracy-and-new-relations-with-the-west.ashx#axzz2qguTBdNZ) by "The Daily Star" Lebanon
Article snip:

"Turkey’s rising trajectory was highlighted by the rock-star reception accorded to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his recent tour of the Arab Spring states of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya and his high-profile meetings during the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Many find the Turkish model enticing, with the moderate Islamic Justice and Development Party, known as AKP, in office; a secular constitution in place; a strong military that is subservient to the elected civilian authority; and an economy that has been expanding.

Overall there’s hope that a new democratic era in the Middle East and North Africa will enable Arabs to develop a new paradigm for relations with the West. This paradigm would be based on equality and partnership – a position that Turkey has already achieved."

-- November 18 2011 - Turkey: a model of democracy for the Arab world (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldtonight/2011/11/turkey_a_model_of_democracy_fo.html) by the BBC

-- March 25, 2012 - Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey after Bilateral Meeting (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/25/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-erdogan-turkey-after-bilatera) The White House Briefing Room Website
Obama states:

"I just want to say how much I appreciate the opportunity to once again meet with my friend and colleague, Prime Minister Erdogan. I think it's fair to say that over the last several years, the relationship between Turkey and the United States has continued to grow across every dimension. And I find Prime Minister Erdogan to be an outstanding partner and an outstanding friend on a wide range of issues."

Sibel Edmonds:
Of course, once that happens, when the symbolic Imperial President markets and sells an imperial product, the world echoes it:

Obama Names Turkey’s Erdoğan among
Top Five International Friends (http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/2012/01/21/obama-names-turkeys-erdogan-among-top-five-international-friends/)]

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That’s right. The U.S. Empire spent over a decade marketing and promoting its favorite puppet in the Middle East- the AKP Party & Erdogan, as the model for the Islamic World, Islamic Democracy, People’s Choice, Great Leader … And then, bam, suddenly the AKP Party and its leader reached their shelf-life. All of a sudden they reached their expiration date. Almost over-night the party and its leader went from democratic to despotic, from democracy-loving to dictator, from squeaky clean to utterly corrupt, from moderate to extremist … what the hell happened? How did the Empire-directed man of choice make a 180 degree turn overnight?

Let me give you some examples of the sudden reversal in branding and marketing, and have you compare and contrast them with those above. Please keep in mind, you are looking at a only few months between the decade-long branding-marketing and the now reverse branding-marketing.

-- June 3, 2013 - Simmering anger at Erdogan's authoritarianism boils over in Turkey (http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-turkey-protests-insight-idUKBRE9510DV20130603) by Reuters U.K.

-- August 7 2013 - The spectre of dictatorship hangs over Turkey (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article3836014.ece) By "The Times" of London

-- October 28, 2013 - "Turkey's Erdogan - An autocratic Islamist bigot" (http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Candidly-Speaking-Turkeys-Erdogan-An-autocratic-Islamist-bigot-330005) by THE JERUSALEM POST

-- November 19, 2013 - Erdogan is harming Turkey’s secular democratic tradition (http://www.jerusalemonline.com/rachel/analysis-erdogan-is-harming-turkeys-secular-democratic-tradition-2375) Jerusalem-On-Line

-- January 3, 2014 - Turkey's Democratic Institutions Besieged (http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2014/01/03-turkey-democratic-institutions-besieged-kirisci) by Brookings Institute

-- January 14, 2014 - Erdogan's Naked Theater of Democracy (http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/politics/erdogans-naked-theatre-of-democracy/14/01/) The News Entertainment Lifestyle

-- January 17, 2014 - Turkey: Between Deep State and Dictatorship (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/turkey-between-deep-state-and-dictatorship/) by "Commentary Magazine"

Sibel continues:
"I know that even the idiots among us would not believe such a sudden and drastic change in a person. No one goes from being the most freedom loving leader to the most authoritarian despot. No human being can be transformed from democratic to dictator in a matter of few months. No person can switch from fair and squeaky clean to utterly dirty and corrupt. Nobody can convert from being a moderate Islamist to an extremist bigot in less than a year. But wait, there is even more.

The Empire has even resorted to the “Terrorist” label in the reverse branding-marketing of their previous puppet boy. You know what it means when they start using that card-terrorist. Right?

Here is an article on Erdogan’s ties to a famous man designated as a terrorist (only when it is convenient for the Empire):
-- January 7, 2014 - Turmoil in Turkey - Erdogan's Son Caught with Al-Qaeda Financier (http://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/01/07/erdogans-son-caught-with-al-qaeda-financier/)

Article snip:
"Turkey’s political crisis took a dark turn this week. Photos of Prime Minister Erdoğan’s son meeting a suspected al-Qaeda financier in an Istanbul hotel were leaked to the press. The photos allegedly show Bilal Erdoğan meeting Saudi Arabian businessman Yasin al-Qadi, whom the US blacklisted in April 2013 as an al-Qaeda funder. According to media reports, Qadi, who visits Turkey frequently and was escorted by the Prime Minister’s security men, met Bilal to discuss a deal for a juicy piece of real estate worth $1 billion in Istanbul’s Etiler neighborhood."
Same thing was done, not only with Saddam Hussein (as shown in the above video), but also with Muammar Gaddafi, Mubarak, al Assad & more...:


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The West's Death Hand-Grip

But still, there are those that know what a handshake with the West really means...


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Some know what a handshaking with the West really means...

[Cidersomerset]

Did Erdogan orchestrate this ? He is certainly capable of it.


Erdoğan cites Hitler's Germany as example of effective government

Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is pushing to change his ceremonial role to chief executive as in US and Russia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/01/turkish-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-hitlers-germany-example-effective-government

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2,700 judges are fired for alleged links to the coup


Now, that's completely new and unheard of:

Soldiers Detained in Turkey Thought Coup Was a Training Exercise



Quote So did Erdogan just orchestrate a false flag drill/ coup in order to consolidate executive power?

Or he found out about it and let it happen from a safe distant ? It does seem odd
the coup leaders did not know where he was ?


Turkey coup attempt: Erdoğan demands US arrest exiled cleric Gülen – live

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/15/turkey-coup-attempt-military-gunfire-ankara


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Turkey purge after coup attempt

Summary
Turkish government begins crackdown on those suspected of involvement in the attempted coup
President’s bureau puts total death toll at 265, including 161 civilians and 104 coup "plotters"
Nearly 3,000 soldiers are under arrest and some 2,700 judges are fired for alleged links to the coup
Cross-party politicians condemn the plot at emergency session of parliament in Ankara
Mass arrests after failed Turkey coup

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-36811357

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Turkey coup attempt aftermath: Over 2,800 arrested, at least 265 killed, 1,440 injured

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Published on 16 Jul 2016

Turkish Prime Minister said that 2,839 soldiers and officers implicated in an
overnight coup attempt have been arrested. At least 265 people have been killed,
including 104 pro-coup participants, while 1,440 people were injured in military
action in Istanbul and Ankara - READ MORE http://on.rt.com/7j8x

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Turkey coup attempt: Erdogan announces purge, "emerge politically stronger, as a
hero of democracy"

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Published on 16 Jul 2016

Turkey coup attempt: Erdogan announces purge, "emerge politically stronger, as a
hero of democracy" of this foiled military coup, says our correspondent Jasper Mortimer.

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Turkey coup attempt: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses
supporters in Istanbul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h48lD6l23I

Published on 16 Jul 2016
Turkey coup attempt: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses crowd of
supporters in Istanbul.

[xion]

So, Erdogolum is gonna introduce death penalty next week, following executions.
We'll just have to see how is that gonna roll out.
If he proceeds with it and the whole worlds just stands there and watches it in hypocrisy, then we can expect **** storm of attacks like we had in France.
Radicals won this round, ISIS could grow stronger now and continue to spill death and agony.

Only thing what we can see now, is that tourism in Turkey is practically dead. Only an imbecile would go to that country now.

[Nikola Tesla]

Bolje da dođu kod nas? ;-)

[xion]

Pa naravno. Čekamo ih otvorenih ruku ko Merkelica :)
Kad dobiju Vise onda će nam turizam skoknut još za koju milijardu.
Samo znas kako naši reagiraju ako se neko sranje dogodi. Bit će repriza Otomanskog rata.

[Redstar Kachina]

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[xion]

And then NATO will have to intervene, and then US will be too anxious not to join the party.
And who knows, maybe we'll see mushrooming after that.

[Arcturian108]

Today's excellent post by Wayne Madsen on what he calls the Erdogan-engineered fake coup.

July 16-18, 2016 -- SPECIAL REPORT. Turkish sources: Erdogan behind "false flag" coup

WMR has been informed by Turkish and foreign intelligence sources inside Turkey that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan staged the July 15 military coup in order to determine what sections of the military would support it. Erdogan, who was never in any real danger of being overthrown by the small group of mid- and lower-ranking military officers who rallied to support the coup, will use the incident as a way to flush out supporters of exiled Turkish charismatic Islamic leader Fethulleh Gulen.

Turkish sources report that the coup was limited by Erdogan's design from the very start. Although the coup began as a classic military overthrow of a civilian government, with strategic points -- the two cross-Bosporus bridges, the Istanbul international airport, the state broadcast network TRT, and the General Staff headquarters in Ankara -- all being taken by the coup leaders, it was doomed to failure.

It is still a mystery how the coup leaders, who limited their actions to seizing a few but not all strategic centers, could shut down all social media in Turkey, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. In fact, after Erdogan left his holiday hotel in Marmaris on the Aegean Sea, his plane was reportedly refused landing at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport, which was in rebel hands. Erdogan's propaganda operation then began to put out false information that Erdogan, who was in the air on his presidential plane, was seeking asylum in Germany. WMR's sources report that Erdogan's plane never strayed far from Turkish airspace. Although major social media was shut down, Erdogan appeared on FaceTime from his iPhone on CNN Turk, which had not yet been seized by the rebel military forces.

If the coup had been a serious attempt, FaceTime would have been cut off and CNN Turk would have been seized at the same time that TRT was taken over. Also, the state-run Anadolu news agency continued to issue statements from Prime Minister Binali Yildirim claiming that the coup had been put down just after it started. An actual coup would have seen the news agency also shut down.

Erdogan instructed his supporters to take to the streets, in addition to seizing Ataturk airport from the pro-coup military forces. After Erdogan supporters took over the airport, Erdogan landed at the airport during the early morning hours of July 16 to be met by cheering crowds. Generating even more sympathy for himself, Erdogan claimed that his hotel in Marmaris was bombed after he left it for his plane. It would also be in Erdogan's interest to order the bombing of his massive presidential palace in Ankara, again, as a way to garner popular sympathy and support.

Erdogan also held a news conference in which he not only threatened Gulen but his host state of Pennsylvania: "I have a message for Pennsylvania: You have engaged in enough treason against this nation. If you dare, come back to your country." Erdogan substituted Pennsylvania for the name Gulen. However, it is clear that Erdogan, who is used to threatening political leaders in his own country, was referring to Pennsylvania politicians who support Gulen, including senators Bob Casey, a Democrat, and Pat Toomey, a Republican.

Gulen denied any involvement in the coup. Erdogan has issued an arrest warrant for Gulen and a request to the Obama administration to extradite the cleric to Turkey. An attempt by the U.S. Justice Department to pull Gulen's permanent residency status was forcibly opposed in the U.S. appellate court in Philadelphia by the Central Intelligence Agency. As WMR reported in 2008, "the appeals court ruled that Gulen was 'an alien of extraordinary ability,' a decision that saw approval of Gulen's residency status. Observers of the case suspect the CIA intervened with the court on Gulen's behalf."

Erdogan has already begun a purge of the military and intelligence services. Apparently, the police opted to side with Erdogan. Almost 2000 military officers and conscripts have been arrested by Erdogan's government and the president and Prime Minister Yildirim both stated that the coup participants will be dealt with harshly. Most of the coup participants were from the air force, Army armored units, and military police. It appears that in rounding up coup participants, Erdogan's government is involved in a fish net operation, using the coup as an excuse to also arrest Erdogan critics. The coup attempt was a standard "fly paper" operation, with Erdogan and his allies now seeing which officers attached themselves to the coup.


An actual professional coup would have shut down all social media, including Instagram and FaceTime.

Our sources in Turkey claim that the coup attempt was a false flag operation for a number of reasons:

The coup attempt started out as a textbook overthrow but rapidly fell apart. Many in Turkey believe that if such a coup was a serious operation, it would not have dissipated so rapidly.
After first claiming they had total control of Turkey, the coup leaders gave up with only token resistance.
By closing all lanes on the cross-Bosporus bridges and not keeping one lane open so people could get home from work, the population grew angry at the "coup" and its "leaders."
Erdogan's plane landed without incident. In an actual coup, his plane would have been surrounded by the military and he would have been placed under arrest. Or, if the presidential plane insisted on landing against the military's orders, it could have been shot down.
Erdogan was met at the airport by a crowd waving brand new Turkish flags, the folds still visible. This is always a sign of George Soros's involvement in themed revolutions, with protesters always waving factory-fresh flags. Some Erdogan supporters were also seen waving brand new flags representing the Muslim separatist group of East Turkestan in western China, a group supported by Soros. Soros's Open Society Institute operates freely in Istanbul and Soros is on friendly terms with Erdogan.
Erdogan's government ordered the imams to begin using the minarets to urge people into the streets. In an actual military coup, the minaret speaker systems would have been ordered to remain silent or power would have been cut off to the mosques. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) supporters were marching in the streets hand-in-hand with imams and other Muslim officials shouting "Allahu Akbar."
The Pentagon claims it was surprised by the coup. However, U.S. military officers are attached as NATO liaison officers to the Turkish Defense Ministry and Turkish officers work inside the Pentagon. It is doubtful that such a coup could have been planned by a small group of Turkish officers without the Turkish General Staff and U.S. liaison officers knowing about it.
Erdogan's government, on the morning after the coup attempt, ordered the sacking of 2,745 judges.
There were also three military attacks on the Turkish parliament in Ankara. It is very possible that these were carried out by pro-Erdogan military units. Erdogan has been trying to force through a new Constitution for Turkey that would confer even more powers on the president. Erdogan has also seized control of Gulen-owned media, including the newspaperZaman and he recently suggested that Syrian refugees in Turkey, including a number of jihadists, be granted Turkish citizenship. These moves were met with hostility by Turkey's opposition parties in parliament. By ordering an attack on parliament, Erdogan was sending a not-so-subtle message to the opposition. In the wake of the coup, Erdogan has silenced the political opposition while having messages of support from U.S. president Barack Obama, German chancellor Angela Merkel, British prime minister Theresa May, and EU President Donald Tusk, among others.

In orchestrating the coup, Erdogan combined a bit of Adolf Hitler's strategy. Hitler ordered the burning of the Reichstag, blaming it on "Communists," in order to abrogate the German Weimar constitution and grant more powers to himself. By waiting to see who joined the false flag coup, Erdogan also borrowed a page from Hitler after the Operation Valkyrie attempt to kill the fuehrer in a remote control bombing. Hitler waited to address the nation until all the supporters of Valkyrie made themselves known. It was then that Hitler ordered their arrests and executions. Erdogan is now operating as Hitler did in 1944 from East Prussia. Erdogan is ordering the arrests of all those involved in or suspected to have been involved in the coup that was destined to fail. And that makes Erdogan infinitely more dangerous than any actual military junta that would have taken over Turkey to restore secular rule and steer the country away from Erdogan's delusion of Ottoman grandeur.


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[giovonni]

covering all the bases ...


Joseph P. Farrell

SPECIAL NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM
JULY 16 2016 ON THE TURKISH COUP

"Joseph offers some speculations about Thursday-Friday's coup attempt against
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan"


Streamed live July 16, 2016


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLNsy9Z5gnI&feature=em-lbcastemail

[Tangri]

And then NATO will have to intervene, and then US will be too anxious not to join the party.
And who knows, maybe we'll see mushrooming after that.

If we didn't see the mushrooming when former Yugoslavia getting separated to 5 countries (by SSCP), we will not see same prediction this time eh?

[xion]

This is totally different thing.
Yugoslavia was not in NATO. And what happened in Yugoslavia, NATO and the west saw that as a civil war.
Also the most important thing to have mushrooming is capabilities of launching or detonating a nuclear weapon, which none of the Yugoslavias countries didn't have.
On the other hand in Turkey there is a US base in Incirlik in which are stored tactical nuclear weapons.
Someone up in the post said that Russia will attack Turkey, and the response was if that happened NATO will have to intervene and "could" lead to mushrooming.

[Cidersomerset]

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Turkey coup bid: US warns against 'insinuations' of involvement

5 minutes ago


A woman takes a selfie in front a damaged Turkish military
APC in Ankara on 16 July, 2016

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The US has warned Turkey against "public insinuations" of
American involvement in a failed military coup, saying such
claims are "utterly false and harmful" to their relations.

US Secretary of State John Kerry was speaking after Turkey's
labour minister suggested the US was behind the coup.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the US
to extradite US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Mr Erdogan has accused him of being behind the plot, which
Mr Gulen denies.

Mr Gulen, speaking from his home in Pennsylvania, denied
the claims and said "as someone who suffered under multiple
military coups during the past five decades, it is especially
insulting to be accused of having any link to such an attempt".

short vid on link...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36818401

read more...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36818401


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This may explain why Erdogan changed the 2 700 judges......Short vid on link below

‘Gift from God’: Erdogan sees coup as ‘chance to cleanse military’ while PM mulls death penalty

Published time: 16 Jul, 2016 16:04

Edited time: 16 Jul, 2016 17:08

https://www.rt.com/news/351630-erdogan-turkish-military-relationships/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

[Cidersomerset]

Post-Coup in Turkey – Erdogan’s Revenge

By David on 17 July 2016 GMT


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UPDATES: Post-Coup in Turkey – Erdogan’s Revenge

July 16, 2016 By Vanessa Beeley 23 Comments


WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES

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Erdogan AKP supporters and Muslim Brotherhood lynch Turkish military. Photo ~ Twitter

‘The coup in Turkey is over, as quickly as it flared up and as drammatically as it exploded
onto our news feeds it has now subsided but what comes next is chilling. Erdogan’s AKP
supporters and the Muslim Brotherhood followers, who were being summoned onto the
streets by the Imams as the call for prayer resounded across Istanbul and Ankara, are
now turning on the military and civilian dissidents. Reports of lynchings and even
beheadings are now shockingly prevalent particularly on Twitter that has been real-time
reporting on events as they unfold.

“Graphic pictures have been shared on social media allegedly showing the beheading of
a Turkish soldier following an attempted coup.

The pictures show the man’s body on one of the bridges crossing the Bosphorus river in
Istanbul, after he was allegedly beheaded by supporters of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).’

Read more: Post-Coup in Turkey – Erdogan’s Revenge


http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/07/16/updates-post-coup-in-turkey-erdogans-revenge-exacted/

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Diplomatic rift: Erdogan urges US to extradite Muslim cleric Gulen blamed for coup attempt

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Published on 16 Jul 2016

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Islamic cleric - Muhammed Fethullah
Gulen - of being behind the coup attempt. Gulen, who holds a US Green Card but is
not an American citizen, accused Turkish President of conducting a deadly false flag
operation, and compared him to Hitler.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

[Cidersomerset]

'Erdogan main beneficiary of coup: Now crushing opposition, firing judges and officers' - German MP

ArjMRWf_WF0

Published on 17 Jul 2016

America currently finds itself sealed off from its nuclear warheads located at Turkey's
Incirlik air base. Power to the base was also cut. It is now understood that access has
been restored, however the incident has sparked deep concerns in Washington.

Nevertheless Sevim Dagdelen, German MP from The Left party, believes that the coup
attempt won't hamper Turkey's relations with America.

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[turiya]

Today From: Drudge Report / Yahoo! News
US-based cleric denies involvement in Turkey coup bid... (https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-based-cleric-gulen-denies-involvement-turkey-coup-235815316.html?ref=gs)


"The US-based cleric that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says is behind an attempted military coup in Turkey has denied any involvement, suggesting that the coup could have been staged by the president himself.

Erdogan has accused Gulen, a reclusive Muslim cleric living in self-imposed exile in a mountain town in Pennsylvania, of being behind Friday's bloody putsch attempt. He wants Washington to extradite Gulen to Turkey.

The 75-year-old Gulen was once a close Erdogan ally but the two fell out in recent years as the Turkish president became suspicious of Gulen's movement, Hizmet, and its powerful presence in Turkish society, including in the media, police and judiciary.

Gulen condemned the military uprising "in the strongest terms" shortly after the coup attempt began late Friday.

And in a rare meeting Saturday with a small group of reporters at his compound in the town of Saylorsburg, in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, Gulen rejected charges of being the coup mastermind.

[Of course he denies being the mastermind, as it is the CIA that is using the imam cleric as their 'front man' for this supposed coup.... ]

Continuing w/ Sibel Edmonds' Article (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/01/18/turkish-pm-erdogan-the-speedy-transformation-of-an-imperial-puppet/) (above):
"For Erdogan the rift with Imam Fethullah Gulen means a rift with the CIA. And we all know what happens to those puppets when they end up in a rift with the CIA. Don’t we? The rift always brings expiration. Once a puppet is considered expired, then lo and behold, all of a sudden, the reversal branding and marketing begins: All old skeletons are dug out of the deep closets and leaked to the media. His previously overlooked human rights violations are looked at and scrutinized under a microscope. The terrorist card is brought into the equation. And the list goes on…" (Emphasis mine.)

[And now Erdogan is playing right into the CIA's hand for a more forceful regime change...]
Turkey Warns America: Hand Over Exiled Cleric OR ELSE (http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/16/turkey-warns-america-hand-over-exiled-cleric-or-else/#ixzz4EgoJeQSt)

U.S. State Department issues Travel Warning for U.S. citizens...
Turkey Travel Warning (https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings/turkey-travel-warning.html)

[...and no doubt things will move rather quickly from here...
...Russia gonna make any noise on this??? Methinks Russia would like access to the Mediterannean, which Turkey had been blocking... could be 'Let's Make a Deal' time...]

Sibel:
Violating Imperial Commandments
All Empire-installed puppets and regimes must commit to the Empire’s commandments. This is a fact. It is the reality. Thou shall not violate the Imperial commandments. Because if you do, thou shall be disgraced, exposed, uninstalled, and may even be given death. All you have to do is look at the past century’s history. See what happens when an installed puppet gets too confident and inflicted with hubris, and ignores one or more commandments. This is when they are reborn as dictators, despots, torturers, and yes, terrorists. This is when their backyards get dug up to find a few grams of weapons of mass destruction. So did Erdogan get too confident? Did he violate a commandment or two? It seems that he did.

Turkey Mulls Buying Missiles from China, Snubbing NATO (http://www.the-american-interest.com/2013/10/28/turkey-mulls-buying-missiles-from-china-snubbing-nato/) (10/28/2013)
"Turkey has said that it is likely to buy a new missile defense program from a Chinese firm, unnerving NATO and American diplomats. A Reuters report from earlier this month said that Turkey is “highly likely” to buy the $3.4 billion program, from a firm under American sanctions, no less."
NATO's Mounting Opposition to Turkey’s Chinese Missile System (http://thediplomat.com/2013/10/natos-mounting-opposition-to-turkeys-chinese-missile-system/) (October 16, 2013)

Turkey’s Choice of Chinese Missiles Poses Problem for West (http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/10/turkey-china-missiles-west-problem.html) (October 1, 2013)
"Washington has reacted with concern over the decision of Turkey's Defense Industry Executive Committee (SSIK), the absolute authority on the country's defense projects and procurement, to acquire China’s FD-2000 system to fill the NATO member's high-altitude and long-range air defense gap. The committee met on Sept. 26 with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to enter into contract negotiations with the state-owned China Precision Machinery Export-Import Corporation."

...

Sibel:
Concern? Are you kidding me?! The puppet may as well sign his own death warrant. How dare he! This is violating one of the top Imperial commandments. Anyone who ever dares to be this reckless will be punished and made an example for all other installed-puppets.

Dear lord! Here comes another major commandment violation:
Turkey Renews Plea to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization (http://thediplomat.com/2013/12/turkey-renews-plea-to-join-shanghai-cooperation-organization/)

"During a trip to Russia in November, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again said that Ankara would abandon its quest to join the European Union if it was offered full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization."
...

Mr. Erdogan Goes to Shanghai (http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2013/2/mr-erdogan-goes-to-shanghai)

"Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan dropped that bomb on Jan. 25. With Turkish hopes for the EU membership diminishing, he declared the SCO to be a viable alternative to the European Union. “I said to Russian President Vladimir Putin, ‘You tease us, saying, ‘what [is Turkey] doing in the EU?’ Now I tease you: Include us in the Shanghai Five and we will forget about the EU.’”

Sibel:
Ouch! There goes another pledge to the Empire’s top commandments. Frankly, I am surprised he is still there - alive.

No matter how we look at it Erdogan’s days are numbered. One will not get away with having a major rift with the CIA. That’s one commandment - Violated! Thou shall not buy weapons from China or Russia regardless of quality or price advantage. Thou shall only feed the Empire’s own fat Military Industrial Complex players. That’s another major commandment - Violated! A puppet shall only be a member of clubs solely owned and operated by the Empire. Joining others’ clubs, even thinking of joining others’ clubs, shall come with severe retribution. This rule has been written with inerasable ink - Violated!

Well, these should take care of the Empire’s three-strike rule. Erdogan should begin looking for a shelter; a refuge. Either it’s that, or the Turkish people taking the matters into their own hands-where they belong.

SOURCE (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/01/18/turkish-pm-erdogan-the-speedy-transformation-of-an-imperial-puppet/)

[Sophocles]

How "lucky" Erdogan was to not being shot down by fighter jets...


At the height of the attempt to overthrow Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the rebel pilots of two F-16 fighter jets had Erdogan's plane in their sights. And yet he was able to fly on.

The Turkish leader was returning to Istanbul from a holiday near the coastal resort of Marmaris after a faction in the military launched the coup attempt on Friday night, sealing off a bridge across the Bosphorus, trying to capture Istanbul's main airport and sending tanks to parliament in Ankara.

"At least two F-16s harassed Erdogan's plane while it was in the air and en route to Istanbul. They locked their radars on his plane and on two other F-16s protecting him," a former military officer with knowledge of the events told Reuters.

"Why they didn't fire is a mystery," he said.

At height of Turkish coup bid, rebel jets had Erdogan's plane in their sights (Reuters, Mon Jul 18, 2016 2:36am)

[Wind]

Russia will invade Turkey in the spring of 2017.

You happen to be in close contact with Putin?

[Carmody]

However, the real punchline was revealed moments ago when Anadolu said a top body overseeing judges and prosecutors has dismissed 2,745 judges across the country. Anadolu Agency says the emergency meeting of the Judges and Prosecutors High Council was held Saturday, mere hours after Turkish forces quashed an attempted coup, and promptly purged the slate clean of anyone in the judicial branch who was seen as even remotely opposed to Erdogan.

Promptly following that, Turkey’s state-run news agency also said that authorities have detained 10 members of Turkey’s highest administrative court as the government pressed ahead with a purge of judiciary officials with alleged links to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric, which impressively was concluded just hours after the coup had fizzled: almost as if it had all been planned all along.

The Anadolu Agency added on Saturday that arrest warrants were issued for 48 administrative court members and 140 members of Turkey’s appeals court: as if members of Turkey’s judicial system – long on Erdodan’s black list – were involved in the army’s failed putsch. (http://theantimedia.org/turkish-coup-nightmare/)

The thing that nobody wants to say, as it reveals the actual existence of fully blown wide spread secret societies. Openly reveals it, excepting..... the knowledge of the below statistics. It exposes the actual grease of function & motion - the actual levers.

It is said that: One in every six police officers in the west is a Freemason. which means that ....probably ..almost all western police chiefs are Freemasons. Probably most to all judges are affiliated. The BAR. Lawyers. etc.

This bears the appearance of being practically a 100% freemasonry oriented purge. If not, most definitely centered around the activities and nesting areas of Freemasons, in one way or another.

It was stated by VT (veterans today) that this was probably an attempt by christian (Freemasons) embedded deep in the (Turkish) system. Usually they show very little incompetence in such matters, so I wonder what the game was or is.

Controlling the given law of the given land is at a least as powerful as controlling the money. As one can see.

We can also see (in the case of further musing and logical deduction) that major conflicts and issues (as opposed to the minor warlord 'outbreaks' here and there) on this planet are definitely associated with secret societies.


"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." --Woodrow Wilson

To my general knowledge, even the best conspiracy writers (generally) won't speak on this matter. Yet it is the most important thing of all, to be aware of. One cannot fit the puzzle together and look in the correct effective directions, until one knows this single point.

Secret society factional wars. All this activity in the world today (and historically) -for better or for worse- is directly tied to secret society factional wars.

It is all beneath the surface and has almost nothing to do with whatever is written or shown/aired -for public consumption.

[Hervé]

A repost from the "Baton Rouge" cop shootings:



Herve wrote:
What if that's exactly what it is: a purge of police officers who are not toeing the line of "shoot first and won't have to bother asking questions", are considered traitors... deserters... etc... you know, mafia/Skull & Bones/masonic style... all the while adding some more fuel to the smoldering civil braziers...You mean like that which has just gone down in Turkey? Amazing thing coincidence, isn't it?
[...]

... put that together with post # 23 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91921-Breaking-News-3-officers-dead-after-shooting-near-Baton-Rouge-Police-HQ&p=1082421&viewfull=1#post1082421) and this post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91903-Military-coup-in-Turkey-coup-attempt-by-part-of-army-fizzled&p=1082477&viewfull=1#post1082477) (<---) and maybe there is a world wide "coup" happening...


[...]
The thing that nobody wants to say, as it reveals the actual existence of fully blown wide spread secret societies. Openly reveals it, excepting..... the knowledge of the below statistics. It exposes the actual grease of function & motion - the actual levers.

It is said that: One in every six police officers in the west is a Freemason. which means that ....probably ..almost all western police chiefs are Freemasons. Probably most to all judges are affiliated. The BAR. Lawyers. etc.

This bears the appearance of being practically a 100% freemasonry oriented purge. If not, most definitely centered around the activities and nesting areas of Freemasons, in one way or another.

[...]

We can also see (in the case of further musing and logical deduction) that major conflicts and issues (as opposed to the minor warlord 'outbreaks' here and there) on this planet are definitely associated with secret societies.


"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." --Woodrow Wilson

[Carmody]

The point is, that purging the judiciary and probably next, the policing systems, means that the main lever by which the CIA and associated mechanisms likely function (on one important level), are going to be considerably more difficult to both man and manipulate.

Which means, more likely...a more visceral and direct route.

[Hervé]

Erdogan Purges 18,000 As Europe Voices Concern Coup Was Staged With "Prepared Arrest Lists" (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-18/erdogan-purges-8000-cops-europe-voices-concern-coup-was-staged-prepared-arrest-lists)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) Jul 18, 2016 6:44 AM

Overnight Turkish president Erdogan's counter-coup witch hunt continued, when thousands of police officers were suspended on Monday, widening a systemic purge of Erdogan's enemies first in the armed forces and then judiciary after a failed military coup, now focusing on the interior police force, and raising concern among European allies that it was abandoning the rule of law. Turkey's state-run news agency says the Interior Ministry has sacked close to 9,000 personnel across the country, following Friday's foiled coup attempt.

Anadolu Agency says a total of 8,777 employees attached to the ministry were dismissed, including 30 governors, 52 civil service inspectors and 16 legal advisers.

Thirty regional governors and more than 50 high-ranking civil servants have also been dismissed, CNN Turk said. Thousands of members of the armed forces, from foot soldiers to commanders, were rounded up on Sunday, some shown in photographs stripped to their underpants and handcuffed on the floors of police buses and a sports hall. Several thousand prosecutors and judges have also been removed.

So, in addition to the 9,000 cops, Erdogan has already detained 6,000 military personnel as well as 3,000 judges and prosecutors, for a grand total of approximately 18,000 political opponents "purged" just days after the conclusion of the failed coup.

At the same time speculation that the terribly planned "coup" was anything but came from the European Commission itself. As Reuters (http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0ZY0EA?il=0)adds, the swift rounding up of judges and others after a failed coup in Turkey indicated the government had prepared a list beforehand, according to EU commissioner dealing with Turkey's membership bid, Johannes Hahn, said on Monday.

"It looks at least as if something has been prepared. The lists are available, which indicates it was prepared and to be used at a certain stage," Hahn said. "I'm very concerned. It is exactly what we feared."

It is also exactly what Erdogan has expected and hoped for. And with broad western support for Erdogan over the weekend, his mission to concentrate all Turkish power in his own hands is now assured.

Meanwhile, Erdogan on Sunday told crowds of supporters, called to the streets by the government and by mosques across the country, that parliament must consider their demands to apply the death penalty for the plotters. "We cannot ignore this demand," he told a chanting crowd outside his house in Istanbul late on Sunday. "In democracies, whatever the people say has to happen."

Once again, Europe pushed back however, when Volker Kauder, parliamentary leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party bloc, said Turkey must obey the rule of law. “If the death penalty were to be decided, the negotiations would certainly be at an end,” Kauder says in ZDF television interview, referring to talks with the EU. “We mustn’t let it go unchallenged if the rule of law isn’t obeyed.”

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz also said it would be unacceptable for Turkey to reintroduce the death penalty, which it abolished in 2004. Abolishing capital punishment was a prerequisite for talks with Turkey on membership of the European Union, to which it still aspires.

But... this is Turkey: the law is whatever Erdogan says it is.


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Others also realized what they have done, but it was too late. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini warned the Turkish government on Monday against taking steps that would damage the constitutional order. "We were the first... during that tragic night to say that the legitimate institutions needed to be protected," she told reporters on arrival at an EU foreign ministers meeting, which was also to be attended by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

"We are the ones saying today rule of law has to be protected in the country," she said in Brussels. "There is no excuse for any steps that take the country away from that."

Actually the excuse came and went over the weekend, when - with Europe's blessing - Erdogan not only repelled the fake coup, but also got a green light to crackdown on anyone who is even remotely critical of him.

And, oh yes, Erdogan still holds all the leverage: some two million Syrian refugees he can unleash on Europe at any moment he wishes.

[turiya]

Boiling Frogs Looking at the Background of Fethullah Gülen...


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BFP Exclusive: William Engdahl on Operation Gladio, Fethullah Gülen & One World Government
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William Engdahl | February 10, 2015


“CIA’s Graham Fuller:
One of the early advocates of using Muslim Brotherhood & Gülen Cemaat to advance US foreign policy.”The following is the translation of an interview with William Engdahl conducted by journalist Deniz Ülkütekin of Turkey’s Cumhuriyet:
Question 1. As I read, you started to research about Gulen Cemaat when you came to Turkey for a conference. What was the thing that attracted your interest about Gulen and his members?

William Engdahl: I am a geopolitical researcher and author now for more than thirty years. My prime theme is geopolitics or how power is organized in our world by whom, to what aim. When I was invited to Turkey on a speaking tour for one of my books, a Turkish journalist who since has become a trusted friend suggested if I wanted to understand what was going on in Turkey, a country I have long considered to have a far more positive role than she has played within NATO, I should look deeply into the Gülen Cemaat. That began a long process as I began to realize the deeper agenda behind the façade of Rumi that Gülen and his people project.

Question 2. Our first knowledge about Gülen is, his struggle against communism via a foundation (which was a NATO agenda indeed). So could we say that Gülen and his CIA relationship started long ago?

William Engdahl: Yes, all evidence suggests that NATO Turkish Gladio networks picked up [Fethullah] Gülen as a potentially useful asset years ago. As their agenda changed with the collapse of the Soviet Union, their role for Gülen changed as well, and doors were opened for him to play that role.

So in a true sense we can say that the Gülen Cemaat is the nothing more than the projection of an idea from Langley Virginia CIA headquarters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency), an idea from essentially stupid people there who believed they could use him and they could abuse religion as a cover to advance their design for global control, what David Rockefeller calls One World Government.

Unlike the CIA’s Mujahideen Jihadists like Hekmatyar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar) in Afghanistan or Naser Oric (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naser_Ori%C4%87) in Bosnia, the CIA decided to give Fethullah Gülen a radically different image. No blood-curdling, head-severing, human-heart-eating Jihadist. No, Fethullah Gülen was presented to the world as a man of “peace, love and brotherhood,” even managing to grab a photo Op with Pope John Paul II, which Gülen featured prominently on his website. The Gülen organization in the US hired one of Washington’s highest-paid Public Relations image experts, George W. Bush’s former campaign director, Karen Hughes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Hughes), to massage his “moderate” Islam image.

The ideas and manipulations of the CIA and US State Department are collapsing everywhere today, but they are blinded by their own arrogance. Just look at their absurd mess they created with the neo-nazis in Ukraine.

Question 3. As it's a very conflicted subject, how do you certainly believe that Fethullah Gülen and CIA work together?

William Engdahl: This is not merely my view but that of very knowledgeable Turkish analysts and even the former Turkish MIT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Organization_(Turkey)) senior figure, Osman Nuri Gundes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuri_G%C3%BCnde%C5%9F), former FBI Turkish-American translator Sibel Edmonds, and others have documented his deep links to very senior CIA people such as Graham Fuller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_E._Fuller). When Gülen fled Turkey to avoid prosecution for treason in 1998, he chose not to go to any of perhaps a dozen Islamic countries which could have offered him asylum. He chose instead the United States. He did so with the help of the CIA. The US State Department tried to block a special “preference visa as an alien of extraordinary ability in the field of education” permanent visa status for Gülen, arguing he was basically a fraud with a fifth grade education and no special Islam scholar. Over the objections of the FBI, of the US State Department and of the US Department of Homeland Security, three former CIA operatives intervened and managed to secure a Green Card and permanent US residency for Gülen.

Intervention by three current or “former” CIA people--George Fidas (https://elliott.gwu.edu/part-time-faculty-f), who was US Ambassador to Turkey and an ex CIA Deputy Director; Morton Abramowitz (https://tcf.org/experts/morton-abramowitz/) who was described as at least “informal” CIA, and CIA career man who spent time in Turkey, Graham E. Fuller - [see Corbett Report video (https://www.corbettreport.com/who-is-graham-fuller/)]. They got Gülen asylum in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. That certainly suggests a strong tie at the very least.

Question 4. Was the relationship between Gulen and the CIA depending on both parties’ benefits? If so what were their benefits? How did CIA support Gulen to develop and grow his foundation?

William Engdahl: Yes, clearly. For the Gülen Cemaat it enabled a vast business empire to be created which gained more and more influence by placing its people inside the police, the courts and education ministry. He could build his recruiting schools across Central Asia with CIA support. In the USA and Europe, CIA-influenced media like CNN gave him beautiful free publicity to overcome opposition to open his schools across America. For the CIA it was one more tool to destroy not only an independent secular Kemalist Turkey, but to advance their Afghan drug trade worldwide and to use Gülen’s people to destabilize opponent regimes that CIA network in Washington, the “deep state” wanted to get rid of.

Sibel Edmonds, former FBI Turkish translator and “whistleblower,” named Abramowitz, along with Graham E. Fuller, as part of a dark cabal within the US Government that she discovered were using networks out of Turkey to advance a criminal “deep state” agenda across the Turkic world, from Istanbul into China. The network that she documented included significant involvement in heroin trafficking out of Afghanistan.

On retiring from the State Department, Abramowitz served on the board of the US Congress-financed National Endowment for Democracy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy#Criticisms) (NED), and was a co-founder with George Soros of the International Crisis Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Crisis_Group). Both the NED and International Crisis Group were implicated in various US Government-backed “color revolutions” since the 1990’s collapse of the Soviet Union, from Otpor in Serbia to the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the 2013-14 coup in Ukraine, to the 2009 Green Revolution in Iran, to the 2011 Lotus Revolution in Tahrir Square in Egypt.

Graham E. Fuller had been immersed in the CIA’s activities in steering Mujahideen and other political Islamic organizations since the 1980’s. He spent 20 years as CIA operations officer in Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Afghanistan, and was one of the CIA’s early advocates of using the Muslim Brotherhood and similar Islamist organizations like Gülen Cemaat to advance US foreign policy.

Question 5. How does CIA work via Gulen schools at Middle-Asia?

William Engdahl: First it should be noted that Russia moved swiftly to ban the Gülen schools when the CIA began the Chechyn terror in the 1990’s. In the 1980’s when the Iran-Contra scandal broke in Washington (a scheme authored by Fuller at CIA), he “retired” to work at the CIA and Pentagon-financed RAND think-tank. There, under RAND cover, Fuller was instrumental in developing the CIA strategy for building the Gülen Movement as a geopolitical force to penetrate former Soviet Central Asia. Among his RAND papers, Fuller wrote studies on Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey, in Sudan, in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Algeria. His books praise Gülen lavishly.

After the fall of the USSR, Fetullah Gülen’s cadre were sent to establish Gülen schools and Madrasses across newly-independent former Soviet states in Central Asia. It was a golden chance for the CIA, using the cover of Gülen religious schools, to send hundreds of CIA agents deep inside Central Asia the first time. In 1999 Fuller argued, “The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Russians. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia.”

Gülen was named by one former FBI authoritative source as, “one of the main CIA operation figures in Central Asia and the Caucasus.” During the 1990’s the Gülen schools then growing up across Eurasia were providing a base for hundreds of CIA agents under cover of being “native-speaking English teachers.” Osman Nuri Gundes revealed that the Gülen movement “sheltered 130 CIA agents” at its schools in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan alone in the 1990s.

Question 6. Gulen migrated from Turkey to USA at 1999, 3 days after terrorist Kurdish movement leader Abdullah Ocalan was kidnapped and brought to Turkey. What did it mean? Could Gulen co-operate better with CIA when he moved USA?

William Engdahl: I think the CIA feared Gülen would end in prison and could be far more useful in US sanctuary where they could feed his image better and pump up his aura. Now clearly Gülen fears to return to Turkey even though he legally could. That says a lot.

Question 7. What does Gulen Foundation do for the benefits of CIA inside Turkey and Middle-East?

William Engdahl: That would require a much longer discussion. What I find interesting is how a deep and now bitter split has emerged between Gülen Cemaat in Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. I believe Erdogan began to pursue his own agenda and that came in collision with that of the CIA and State Department for Turkey in the larger world.

Question 8. Turkish goverment AKP currently running a huge police operation against Gulen members among justice and police organisation, on the other hand, public sceptic about these operations as AKP and Gulen were also allies before november 17th [2014?] corruption scandal occured. So could we say that AKP, Tayyip Erdogan and CIA were also allies once?

William Engdahl: Turkey is a NATO member. So no Turkish government is permitted for long if it tries to be independent of NATO, i.e. Washington, for long, as you know. When Erdogan began going his own way, the US networks began to demonize him in media worldwide, and Gülen media attacked him fiercely. I believe the split between Erdogan and Gülen went long before Nov. 17 scandals. Who was behind the leaking of those accusations? What was US Ambassador Francis Ricciardone doing in that regard? Interesting questions for someone.

Question 9. You say that CIA is at Gulen's side in their fight against AKP. What could CIA do to stop Erdogan and AKP?

William Engdahl: My opinion is that was what the scandals were for, to try to prevent Erdogan’s election as President but they failed. Keep in mind the “scandal” was about how Erdogan allegedly violated US oil sanctions against Iran, so the scandals were intended to break that trade, a Washington goal.

Question 10. Anything to add...

William Engdahl: I believe that Turkey today can play a very positive role in a new world that is emerging to replace the world of CIA wars, terror and chaos. Turkey is a geopolitical crossroads which has the possibility to play a very positive role in the emerging Eurasian system of China and Russia, the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation), in building energy and rail infrastructure. By herself, Turkey will be isolated and broken as Ukraine, and by the same people. In a principled economic and political alliance with Russia and China, she can play a pivot role in building a new world free of the debt of the collapsing Dollar System that also included the stagnating Europe. Turkey has a beautiful opportunity to partner with Russia and change the world power balance. It will require a lot of will. But if done in a good open way, Turkey could enjoy prosperity as never before and be a genuine “good neighbor.”Source (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2015/02/10/bfp-exclusive-william-engdahl-on-operation-gladio-fethullah-gulen-one-world-government/) (Emphasis mine.)
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Note: The Sibel Edmonds video below looks to be a deposition of a sort - possibly an FBI agent, or State Department official, posing the questions. Also note: Sibel refrains from saying anything about the CIA in her answers... instead uses other phraseology... Another side: Note how the video cuts out the term 'jihad-like' training... this leads me to believe that the interview is being conducted by the FBI, as Philip Haney (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/18/philip-haney-obama-homeland-security-shut-down-probe-into-islamic-jihadis/) has pointed out that the FBI Training Manuals have prevented agents from using various Islamic terms.

Sibel Edmonds From the video):
"He has since established more that 300 madrassas in Central Asia, what he calls universities that have a front that is called "Modern Islam". But he is closely involved in [mujahideen]-like training militia Islam who are brought from Pakistan & Afghanistan into Central Asia where his madrassas operate. And his organization's networth is estimated to be about $25 billion. He has opened several Islamic universities in the United States.

As I said, its being promoted under 'moderate' Islam. It is supported by "'certain' U.S authorities", here, because of the 'operations' in Central Asia. But what 'they' have been doing since the late 1990's, is actually radical Islam and militizing these very, very young - from the age of 14-15 - by commanders 'they' use, and this is both commanders from Turkish military, commanders from Pakistani ISI, in Central Asia & Azerbaijan. And after that, 'they' bring them to Turkey, and from Turkey then sometimes through Europe, to Europe & elswhere...

Up until 1999, both Turkish government, also the paramilitary units in Central Asia, 'they' operated groups called "Grey Wolves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)) Ultra-nationalists". And their method was assassination of certain leaders in Central Asian countries, and militarizing - but not through Islam.

But after this Susurluk scandal [1996] that took place in Turkey, they were no longer supported by "certain segments" of the United States. Instead, some of our people involved in foreign policy, they supported the Islamic movements of Gülen in those Central Asian countries in order to counter Russia, as far as the energy sources are concerned in those countries. ..."

Questioner: Is that individual, based on what you've told me that you would consider to be a threat to U.S. interests?

"One hundred percent - absolutely."

Questioner: [/I][/B]And if you know, how is he allowed to be in the United States?

Because, part of what he has, in terms of the guilded"certain segments" of the United States, he is furthering the interests of those that have an interest in the energy sources in Central Asia, and that is the brother's(?) oil or whether its natural gas... its a fight... the best way to describe it is: The Cold War is not over - its a continuation of the Cold War - for those nations. And what he did in Afghanistan in the early 1980's with mujahideen, have now been joined in Central Asia by using Islam & extremism in his madrassas, and Pakistani & Afghani elements to build certain stuff, in terms of those resources of certain business interests there.

Questioner: [/I][/B]Did you say Gülen had set up schools in the United States?[/B]

"Yes."

Sibel Edmonds ON GULEN SCHOOLS


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB8QbD-6Wjw

[Cidersomerset]

Interesting discussion they have been debating Turkey and Erdogan for years...

CrossTalk on Turkey: Bullhorns on the coup

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Published on 18 Jul 2016

Turkey on the brink: after a failed coup attempt the country is in disarray.
And President Erdogan is exacting his revenge against the military and those
deemed disloyal. Where does Turkey go now? CrossTalking with Xavier Moreau,
Dmitry Babich, and Mark Sleboda.

[shaberon]

That was disappointing. Not really even a coup, more of a small mutiny with no one higher than a colonel involved. With things like Saudi foreknowledge, and a purge of judges the next day, it certainly doesn't come across as Turkish nation's attempt to clear itself of the dominant power. Unless the policy shifts go far enough, they will remain very ripe for more military or civil insurrection.

[Ba-ba-Ra]

Hillary Clinton's connection to Gulen

Last week Monday, just days before the coup. Chuck Ross reported at the Daily Caller:
A newly-released email and lobbying documents filed with Congress reveals new ties between Clintonworld and members of a network operated by a mysterious Islamic cleric from Turkey.

Connections between Clinton and acolytes of the imam, Fethullah Gulen, could muddle the complex relationship between the U.S. and Turkey, a key NATO ally, if the former secretary of state wins the White House...

[A] 2009 email recently released by Judicial Watch provides yet another example of access being provided to a Clinton campaign and Clinton Foundation donor.

In the April 1, 2009 message, a Gulen follower named Gokhan Ozkok asked Clinton deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin for help in connecting one of his allies to President Obama.

Ozkok is founding board member of the Turkish Cultural Center and part of a network of businesses and non-profits affiliated with the Gulen movement, also known as Hizmet...

Ozkok served as national finance co-chair of the pro-Clinton Ready PAC. He gave $10,000 to the committee in 2014 and $2,700 to Clinton’s campaign last year. He is also listed on the Turkish Cultural Center’s website as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, one of the non-profit arms of the Clinton Foundation. He’s given between $25,000 and $50,000 to the Clinton charity.


Another link between Gulenists and the Clinton orbit was revealed in a lobbying registration disclosure filed last month with the Senate. It shows that a Gulen-aligned group called the Alliance for Shared Values hired the Clinton-connected Podesta Group to lobby Congress on its behalf. The group seeks to lobby for the “promotion of peace, tolerance and interfaith dialogue.”

http://www.targetliberty.com/2016/07/hillary-clinton-ties-emerge-to-turk.html

[TargeT]

Funny, this exact thing was predicted late last year...

Behind the CIA's Failed Coup in Turkey: Was It Only a Dry Run?
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As we predicted last year, the deep state coup against Erdogan finally materialized last weekend...but it fizzled out almost as quickly as it arrived. So what are we to make of this would-be putsch? Did Erdogan allow it to happen in order to further cement his control on the rebound? Or was this merely a trial run for the real CIA/NATO/Gulenist coup yet to come? And what role do the Turkish people play in all of this? Joining us today to dissect the mayhem is Sibel Edmonds and Spiro Skouras of Newsbud.com.

[Cidersomerset]

They describe it pretty well in the cross talk vid above in #64....

Erdogan has been leading toward this since he came into power basically to take
away the traditional power of the military which had been a balance against a
religious oriented government taking over.

This coup has played perfectly into Erdogans hands.There were basic mistakes by
the coup leaders which does beg questions on who really planned this ?
Not knowing where Erdogan was ? Not taking into account social media ? There are
reports many of the ordinary troops thought this was an exercise ? No senior
commanders taking part ? and more.....


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Turkey coup attempt: General Akin Ozturk denies role in plot

15 minutes ago.... From the section Europe

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Akin Ozturk was among 70 generals and admirals being detained, Anadolu reported

A former air force commander has denied being a ringleader of Friday's attempted
military coup in Turkey.Gen Akin Ozturk and 26 senior officers were charged with
treason and remanded in custody by a court on Monday, the state-run Anadolu
news agency said.But in a statement to prosecutors, the general insisted: "I am not
the person who planned or led the coup."

Read more....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36829574

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Fethullah Gulen: Turkey coup 'could have been staged' - BBC News

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Published on 18 Jul 2016

The reclusive cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan for the failed coup in Turkey, has suggested that the coup could have been
staged by the government.

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What next for Turkey's Erdogan? BBC News

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Published on 18 Jul 2016

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now back in control of the Turkish state. Among
the country's electorate he has been a polarising figure: Critics argue that his
Conservative religious vision has undermined basic freedoms; while supporters
point to improved living standards and a tough approach to keeping order.
Our special correspondent Fergal Keane reports from Istanbul.

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Street Clashes: Turkish police fire tear gas at anti-government protesters

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Published on 18 Jul 2016

Turkey's largest city Istanbul has been hit by sporadic fighting between police and
opponents of President Erdogan. It comes as the government steps up its
crackdown on opposition to the regime, following a military coup attempt on Friday.
RT's Lizzie Phelan was caught up in the street clashes.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

[Althena]

It was set up by/for Erdogan, he needs some more juice to push the agenda.

[Cidersomerset]

This vid was posted in January and gives a brief history and may explain
why he would benefit the most from a failed coup......


Turkey Seeks to Become New Ottoman Empire with sultan Erdogan

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Published on 7 Jan 2016

Source South Front https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaV1...
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Most of the reports suggest the coup is very handy for Erdogans plans and agendas.

Turkey attempted coup: CCTV shows state’s civil war
Channel 4 News

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Published on 18 Jul 2016

In Turkey, almost 20,000 officials from the police, the army, the judiciary and the
civil service have now been arrested or suspended.

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Turkish soldiers deny knowledge of coup plot

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Published on 17 Jul 2016
Amid the spate of arrests and interrogations following Friday's failed coup in
Turkey, some soldiers have been claiming that they initially had no idea that they
were taking part in a plan to overthrow the government.
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READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2016/07/17/tu...

[turiya]

Funny, this exact thing was predicted late last year...

Behind the CIA's Failed Coup in Turkey: Was It Only a Dry Run?
nxpuotIMlY0

As we predicted last year, the deep state coup against Erdogan finally materialized last weekend...but it fizzled out almost as quickly as it arrived. So what are we to make of this would-be putsch? Did Erdogan allow it to happen in order to further cement his control on the rebound? Or was this merely a trial run for the real CIA/NATO/Gulenist coup yet to come? And what role do the Turkish people play in all of this? Joining us today to dissect the mayhem is Sibel Edmonds and Spiro Skouras of Newsbud.com.

Yes!

Its being played by the MSM outlets as it happening so suddenly, but if you follow-up what Sibel Edmonds has been posting on her Boiling Frogs website, its been pretty much planned out well in advance. She presents her case very well - that Erdogan was given the "3-Strike" rule limit. After that its all been a done deal for his time in power.

You got to admit, the theater roll-out was well orchestrated. Infiltration into upper tiers of his government & military was well underway like for almost a decade ago, or more, pushing sharia law to replace the so-called democratic government. Not a sudden fall. But promoted as that by the CIA controlled MSM media outlets.

Yes

[TODD & NORA]

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[Ba-ba-Ra]

Hillary Clinton Ties Emerge to Turk That Erdoğan Accuses of Plotting the Attempted Coup

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is accusing Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen of being the mastermind behind the failed coup that was launched late Friday evening in Turkey.

It turns out that Gülen is, in exile, holed up in, get this, Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.

Erdoğan is demanding the United States arrest him and turn him over to the Turkish government.

What the coup was really about is murky. Some observers suspect that the coup was actually mounted by Erdoğan himself as a false flag operation to crack down on the Gülen movement in Turkey.

Regardless of the specifics of the coup, here's where things get fascinating. Emails have emerged showing a link between Hillary Clinton, her campaign and her foundation and Gülen.

Last week Monday, just days before the coup. Chuck Ross reported at the Daily Caller:
A newly-released email and lobbying documents filed with Congress reveals new ties between Clintonworld and members of a network operated by a mysterious Islamic cleric from Turkey.

Connections between Clinton and acolytes of the imam, Fethullah Gulen, could muddle the complex relationship between the U.S. and Turkey, a key NATO ally, if the former secretary of state wins the White House...

[A] 2009 email recently released by Judicial Watch provides yet another example of access being provided to a Clinton campaign and Clinton Foundation donor.

In the April 1, 2009 message, a Gulen follower named Gokhan Ozkok asked Clinton deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin for help in connecting one of his allies to President Obama.

Ozkok is founding board member of the Turkish Cultural Center and part of a network of businesses and non-profits affiliated with the Gulen movement, also known as Hizmet...

more here: http://www.targetliberty.com/2016/07/hillary-clinton-ties-emerge-to-turk.html

[ks4ever]

Information from an Israel intelligence officer based on the Golan Heights states:

At the start the whole thing was set up by the Turkish secret service.
It got out of control and would have succeeded if they killed him.
But he was warned and than many soldiers got cold feet including two pilots of F16's who locked their radars on his plane and two other F16's protecting him which could have shot him down point blank. (as told to Reuters)
CNN Turk gave Erdogan the platform so he could call the people onto the street.
Before that broadcast the military had everything under control.
The coup failed because there was a last moment withdrawal of the US intel agency's.
What is going on now is the counter coup of Erdogan who will now become the sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

http://freedomfalconofsyria.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/page-21-1-may-2016-to-current.html

[Sophocles]

Thoughts from the Saker...

Failed coup in Turkey – a few initial thoughts (http://thesaker.is/failed-coup-in-turkey-a-few-initial-thoughts/)

The Saker
July 18, 2016

When I first heard that a coup was in progress in Turkey my first thought was that it was the USA’s way to punish Erdogan for his sudden apology to Russia. Yes, sure, I realized that there were many other possible explanations, but that was the one I was hoping for. I even told my family that if this was a US-backed coup and if Erdogan or his supporters said so, there would be hell to pay for the USA. Less than 24 hour later my hopes were fulfilled:

Turkish Minister Blames US Authorities for Organizing Coup Attempt (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160716/1043134590/turkey-minister-us.html)

Kerry Blasts Turkey for Insinuating that Washington Plotted Coup of Erdogan (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160717/1043140902/Kerry-erdogan-soylu-ankara-coup.html)

Erdogan was undeterred and he went on to publicly declare “Dear President Obama, I told you this before, arrest Fethullah Gulen or return him to Turkey. You didn’t listen. I call you on you again, after the coup attempt – extradite this man from Pennsylvania to Turkey. If we are strategic partners, do what is necessary,” Erdogan said. He also explicitly called any nation supporting Gulen “an open enemy of Turkey.”

Now we need to remember that Erdogan has a history of zigs followed by zags, so I would not put it past him to warmly embrace Obama in the near future, but I find that unlikely. Why? Simply because there is a lot of indirect evidence that the USA was, indeed, behind this coup. Consider this:

The coup involved a very large number of people. We can get a sense of the magnitude of this coup by looking at the huge purge now taking place in Turkey. According to various sources it includes no less than 6’000 people (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36818401), many senior officers (including 5 generals and 29 colonels (http://www.dailysabah.com/investigations/2016/07/16/commanders-of-the-2nd-and-3rd-army-arrested-charged-for-treason-after-failed-coup)), 2’745 judges and prosecutors (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1457179/turkey-general-arrested-and-charged-with-treason-as-government-threatens-those-involved-in-the-military-coup-that-they-will-be-punished/). So the first thing we need to ask ourselves is how likely is it that the USA did not know what was being prepared by the coup plotters? I submit that in a country essentially at war, where US forces which are involved in combat operations in nearby Syria and Iraq are deployed and where the US reportedly keeps 50 tactical nuclear weapons (http://www.dw.com/en/reports-us-nuclear-upgrades-in-europe/a-18731756), the notion that the USA did not see this coming is far fetched. Turkey is a NATO member state, which in practical terms means that the US has full control over the Turkish military, and we know thanks to Sibel Edmonds that the Turkish deep state has very close ties to the US deep state – and we are to believe that nobody in the USA saw this coming?

Furthermore, when Erdogan says that the USA did not hurry to condemn the coup (http://www.vz.ru/world/2016/7/16/821918.html), he is absolutely correct. In fact, it was rather amusing for me to see that all the western media was indicating that the coup had succeeded, while the Iranians and Russians reported that the coup had failed. If that was case of wishful thinking on both sides, what does it tell us about the wishes?

Now let’s look at the cui bono angle.

Some, including Fethullah Gulen (https://www.rt.com/news/351656-gulen-erdogan-staged-coup-claims/), have suggested that this coup was an a false flag operation by Erdogan himself. And it is true that he declared that this coup was a ”gift from God… because this will be a reason to cleanse our army“. But the reality is that this coup is a huge embarrassment for Erdogan who had already purged the Turkish armed forces many times over and who could not take the risk of having a planned “false flag” turn into the real thing: even General Bekir Ercan Van, the commander of Turkey’s Incirlik airbase, has been detained (https://www.rt.com/news/351694-incirlik-base-commender-detained/) by Turkish authorities accused of complicity in the attempted coup. So not only did this coup show that Erdogan was hated at the very top level of the Turkish armed forces, but the failure of the coup has now resulted in a huge purge which will tremendously weaken the Turkish armed forces who are involved not only in Syria but also in a bloody civil war against the Kurds. So the notion that Erdogan triggered this coup himself appears very far fetched to me.

Then, of course, there is Russia. And while I wholeheartedly agree that Russia will immensely benefit from this failed coup, I also am convinced that the Russians never had anywhere near the means needed to trigger a coup in Turkey. Neither the Kemalists nor the supporters of Gulen are pro-Russian and Russia simply does not have the kind of access in this major NATO country to trigger military coups.

As for the USA, had the coup succeeded, they could have placed a compliant, and probably far more reliable, military leader at the helm of power in Turkey. Now that the coup failed and now that Erdogan appears to be furious at the USA, the USA is the big loser in this outcome. But had the coup succeeded?

Keep in mind that the war in 08.08.08 and the case of the US “multiple personality disorder” over Syria have shown that there is no unified US foreign policy. There is a White House foreign policy, there is a CIA foreign policy, then there is a Foggy Bottom foreign policy and a Pentagon foreign policy. We even know that there is a separate Neocon foreign policy. Any one of them coup have pushed the coup plotters to take action just like the Neocons pushed Saakashvili to attacked South Ossetia.

Now that the coup has failed, however, the situation has the potential to strongly turned in Russia’s favor and even though the Russians will never trust Erdogan, they are also fully aware of the objective advantages Russian can reap from the current situation. The ultimate success would be to trigger a withdrawal of Turkey from NATO, but I personally doubt that this is possible. A more realistic goal could be to accept that Turkey will nominally remain in NATO, but that at least in Syria Erdogan will accept the Russian-created reality on the ground. The fact that Lavrov and Kerry have agreed to a joint long-term ceasefire (https://www.rt.com/news/351626-lavrov-kerry-syria-ceasefire/) whose exact terms are to remain secret indicates to me that the Russians forced the US into concessions which the latter don’t want to be made public (and not the other way around because Moscow holds all the cards now and Kerry has therefore no means to put pressure on Russia). In other words, now that even the USA has basically caved in, at least temporarily, the Turks have no reasons left to try to impose anything on Syria.

The current situation holds a tremendous potential for developments favorable to Russia. I hope that the Russians will apply some creative thinking and make maximal use of this new situation to create a fait accompli on the ground in Syria. The best option for Russia would be to have a reliable and predictable partner in Turkey. Alas, this is not going to happen. The next best option is to have a weak Turkey wasting most of its resources and energy dealing with internal crises. This seems to be what will happen in the foreseeable future. By any measure, this is a good thing for Russia, Syria and, really, the entire region.

The Saker (http://thesaker.is/failed-coup-in-turkey-a-few-initial-thoughts/)

[Cidersomerset]

US Embassy in Ankara first called coup 'uprising,' later 'coup'

By David on 19 July 2016 GMT Proble War and Terror



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‘U.S. Embassy in Ankara at first described the failed coup attempt by a Gülenist fraction within the
military as an “uprising,” and then changed to using the word “coup” to describe the events unfolding.

The U.S. Embassy in Ankara informed U.S. citizens about the failed Gülenist military coup with a
message titled “Emergency message for U.S Citizens: Turkish Uprising.” The message, published
on the embassy’s website and posted to the U.S. State Department Twitter account on July 16 at
2:53 a.m., said: “Shots fired and explosions have been heard in Ankara and both bridges in Istanbul,
the Bosphorous and Fatih Sultan Mehmet, are now closed.”

The following day the message was removed from the embassy website, even though it remains
available on the official Twitter account.’

Read more: US Embassy in Ankara first called coup ‘uprising,’ later ‘coup’

http://www.dailysabah.com/politics/2016/07/18/us-embassy-in-ankara-first-called-coup-uprising-later-coup?


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Turkish Coup Plotted to Stop Mending of Russia-Turkey Ties - Serbian Foreign Minister

By David on 19 July 2016 GMT War and Terror


‘The coup attempt in Turkey was masterminded by forces that were seeking to halt the restoration
of good relations between Turkey and Russia, the acting Serbian foreign minister said Sunday.

The official condemned Friday’s coup attempt in Turkey which claimed lives of over 260 people,
saying that a violent change of government cannot bring anything good to the citizens.’

Read more: Turkish Coup Plotted to Stop Mending of Russia-Turkey Ties – Serbian Foreign Minister

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160717/1043165908/turkey-coup-serbia.html

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Hell Hath No Fury Like a Teflon Sultan

By David on 19 July 2016 GMT

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When Turkish President/aspiring Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan landed at Istanbul’s
Ataturk airport early Saturday morning, he declared the attempted coup against his
government a failure, and a “gift from God.”

God apparently uses Face Time. It was via that iconic iPhone footage from an
undisclosed location shown live on CNN Turk by a bewildered female anchor that
Erdogan managed to call his legion of followers to hit the streets, unleash People
Power and defeat the military faction that had taken over state TV and proclaimed
to be in charge.’

Read more: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Teflon Sultan

http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160717/1043158581/erdogan-turkey-coup.html

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Death penalty would bar Turkey's EU membership: Mogherini

By David on 19 July 2016 GMT

‘EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, has warned that Turkey would be
barred from joining the bloc if it reintroduces the death penalty to allow the
execution of those involved in a recent failed coup in the country.

Speaking in Brussels where she has been meeting with European foreign ministers,
Mogherini said that Turkey’s return of the death penalty would bar its EU
membership.

“Let me be very clear… no country can become an EU state if it introduces the
death penalty,” the EU foreign policy chief said on Monday.’

Read more: Death penalty would bar Turkey’s EU membership: Mogherini

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/18/475783/Turkey-Erdogan-EU-Mogherini-Germany--Steffen-Seibert

[Hervé]

Erdogan benefits from Turkish coup attempt because it failed, not because he engineered it (https://www.sott.net/article/322455-Erdogan-benefits-from-Turkish-coup-attempt-because-it-failed-not-because-he-engineered-it#)

By Harrison Koehli
Sott.net (https://www.sott.net/article/322455-Erdogan-benefits-from-Turkish-coup-attempt-because-it-failed-not-because-he-engineered-it#) Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:55 UTC



https://www.sott.net/image/s16/331478/full/turkey_7598.jpg
Turkish civilians celebrate the failure of a likely CIA-inspired coup against their President Erdogan


On Friday night, a portion of the Turkish military staged an attempted coup against Erdogan's government. While there is still the possibility for further internal conflicts between the government and those who supported the coup, at this point it's over. You can read our coverage of the events related to the coup here (https://www.sott.net/article/322207-Breaking-news-Military-coup-under-way-in-Turkey-Jets-troops-helicopters-surround-government-buildings), in the SOTT editors' commentary section. Analysts in the mainstream and alternative media are now trying to put the pieces together, asking the question: "Who's responsible?" For the most part, the answers they've given so far don't account for all the evidence.

Three main possibilities are currently on offer: 1) the Turkish government's claim that the coup was organized by Turkish exile Fethullah Gulen in collaboration with the U.S. (CIA, NATO); 2) an authentic, Turkey-based (http://theduran.com/turkey-anatomy-coup/) military faction (usually identified as secular Kemalists) unhappy with Erdogan's 'Islamist' policies; and 3) the "#TheaterNotCoup" meme sourced to Politico's Ryan Heath (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160716/1043138797/erdogan-fake-coup-theater-power.html), which alleges that Erdogan (https://caravansarayposts.com/2016/07/18/designed-to-fail-turkeys-clumsy-brutal-coup-strengthens-erdogans-autocracy/) planned the coup as a false-flag operation, his very own Reichstag to purge opposition and solidify his dictatorial control (unsurprisingly, Gulen supports (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/16/fethullah-gulen-turkey-coup-erdogan) this version). None of these options quite work. Or at the very least, if one of them is true, it is not that simple.

The fact that the coup failed shows that it wasn't very "professional". It was obviously a 'rush job' and downright sloppy. While the plotters managed to take over some state media, and most social media, they did not get all of it, allowing Erdogan to appeal to the masses via FaceTime on CNN Turk. They failed to get public support by presenting a public face. They took a few key personnel hostage, bombed Parliament, but failed to detain those leaders who really mattered. These facts don't necessarily point to one particular scenario. Due to the nature of compartmentalization, it is difficult to assign blame simply based on course of events during the coup.

For example, the coup would have proceeded pretty much the same way whether the organizers were strictly Turkish, or whether they were being guided by American 'advisors'. And even if there weren't any American advisors, a Gulenist fifth column could have been acting in the interests of the CIA, and with their blessing, but without any direct support. The result would be the same. If the accounts of the low-level military personnel involved are to be believed, they were told they were engaging in military exercises, not an actual coup. If true, it just demonstrates that such a plan can be put into operation with only a very few knowing all details, and they can be directed from anywhere. So we have to look elsewhere if we want to determine the most likely culprits.

Erdogan is the most obvious beneficiary, but only due to the coup's failure. It gives his government the opportunity to purge either a real fifth column, or anyone they perceive as a threat. But while suggestive, it does not mean or even imply that Erdogan planned the coup. The fact that it failed does not mean that it was intended to fail. The U.S. and Gulen surely had a motive, and would have benefited if the coup had succeeded. Plus, since the Turkish military is essentially a NATO military, it's unlikely a coup could be planned without the U.S. knowing about it. But to make that clear, we need to look at a timeline of some pre- and post-coup events, as well as some historical context.

I recommend checking out past coverage on Turkey and Erdogan from Sibel Edmonds and other writers from Newsbud/Boiling Frogs Post. For example, see her article (https://www.sott.net/article/322287-Throwing-Erdogan-to-the-wolves-From-favorite-puppet-to-pariah) on the shift from darling of democracy to corrupt dictator in the West's media coverage of Erdogan beginning in 2013 (plus her interviews with James Corbett here (https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-809-sibel-edmonds-explains-erdogans-fall-from-grace/) and here (https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1120-sibel-edmonds-explains-the-erdogan-takedown/)). Also, some BFP background on Gulen here (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/12/01/escalating-conflict-between-turkeys-pm-erdogan-imam-gulen/) and here (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/01/17/turkish-pm-erdogan-in-need-of-alliance-against-imam-gulen-the-plot-thickens/). (Also check out Gladio-linked Graham Fuller's piece here (https://www.sott.net/article/322292-CIA-officer-Graham-Fuller-Why-Erdogan-stumbled), which contains some suggestive insights.) In a nutshell:
First, there is a fairly large CIA/NATO/Gulenist fifth column within the Turkish deep state. It's not simply Erdogan's paranoia. Second, while Erdogan may have followed certain NATO orders (e.g., involvement with the West's regime change policy for Syria), he was anything but a total American puppet. A few years ago he showed signs of strengthening ties to China, Russia, and the wider Middle East, even going so far as saying to Putin, "You tease us, saying, 'what doing in the EU?' Now I tease you: Include us in the Shanghai Five and we will forget about the EU." Third, Gulen has been integral in the U.S./NATO's jihadi mercenary proxy warfare since the mid-90s, helping to recruit and train terrorists for use in the Balkans, Chechnya, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and now, Iraq/Libya/Syria.
With that in mind, consider the following events:

In March of this year, the anti-Erdogan rhetoric coming out of the U.S. went into overdrive, culminating in a barrage (https://www.sott.net/article/315768-Throwing-Turkey-to-the-wolves-Erdogan-is-the-new-Milosevic-Saddam) of neocon (https://www.sott.net/article/315762-Neocons-ready-to-cut-Erdogan-loose-Open-letter-to-the-wannabe-Sultan) condemnations of Erdogan. Prior to the neocons' sentence of death (i.e., their open letter calling for Turkey to become a "vibrant and stable democracy"), rumors began to be floated about a military coup in the works (https://www.sott.net/article/315533-Turkeys-Armed-Forces-dismiss-allegations-of-planning-for-a-government-coup), which the military naturally denied. Neocon Michael Rubin penned an article (https://www.sott.net/article/315279-US-Europe-will-give-no-sympathy-for-Erdogan-in-event-of-a-military-coup) on the 'hypothetical' possibility and prospects of a military coup in Turkey, 'predicting' that Turkey would not receive U.S. support. And on the same day as the letter (March 30), the U.S. Department of Defense ordered the evacuation (https://www.sott.net/article/315481-US-evacuating-military-and-civilian-personnel-from-Turkey-over-security-concerns) of U.S. military families (some 670 family members out of the 770 in Turkey at the time) from Adana, Izmir, Mugla, and Incirlik air base, citing "security concerns". The State Department also evacuated diplomats' family members.

Erdogan may seem a tad unhinged at times, but I presume that he's not an idiot. Any world leader on the receiving end of a 'PNAC letter' would get the message. And if he hadn't already been informed of the coup brewing, he would be motivated to look into it at this point. That was four months ago, and during that time it appears to have been business as usual, with regular media reports of Turkish support for terrorists in Syria, crackdown on Turkey's Kurdish population, jailing of journalists, etc. I think there was a red line that Erdogan knew he couldn't cross if he wanted to stay alive and in power. My guess is that it was to continue to allow Turkey to be used as a middleman for the U.S.'s support of terrorist groups in Syria.

But things changed suddenly and dramatically on June 27, when Erdogan apologized to Russia for the jet shoot-down that caused a rift in Turkish-Russian relations (see my analysis (https://www.sott.net/article/321140-Erdogan-apology-leads-to-total-turnaround-in-Russian-Turkish-relations) here). That was followed almost immediately by the Istanbul airport attacks, which seem to me to have been a message to Erdogan not to align too closely with Russia and Syria - the same thing that had gotten Erdogan in trouble three years before. Keeping in mind that not much can be done in 2.5 weeks - especially considering the entrenchment of a NATO-aligned fifth column in one's country - it does appear to me that Erdogan was genuine about realigning Turkey's foreign policy in a saner direction, at least in the short term, which would necessitate cracking down on covert support of terrorists in Syria by Turkey's deep state actors. So I think the U.S. had the clearest motive to stage a coup at this particular time. Erdogan finally went too far.

But how does this account for the specifics of the coup attempt? It's safe to say that Erdogan knew the coup was coming and had time to prepare for that eventuality. He said as much on TV. See these two tweets, courtesy Moon of Alabama (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/07/wide-purges-after-stage-managed-coup-will-cripple-turkey.html):

7:47 PM - 17 Jul 2016 (https://twitter.com/MahirZeynalov/status/754870087535001600) Mahir Zeynalov @MahirZeynalov

Erdogan acknowledges they knew about a "military activity" at least 7-10 hours before the coup vid (https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/754773945488781312/pu/pl/A_9ozZG7w5vPsXwS.m3u8)

9:34am 18 Jul 2016 (https://twitter.com/10024Fellow/status/754874836095209473) Borzou Daragahi @borzou

Turkey official: "Gulenists in military under investigation for some time. Group acted out of emergency when realized under investigation" Those seeing the coup as an Erdogan false flag point out the swiftness with which thousands were detained after the coup's failure. But this is understandable. Erdogan has been going after this fifth column for years and no doubt had the lists already drawn up. He would've continued doing so with or without the coup. There were actually signs, like the second tweet above, that he was planning a major investigation of the very same parties who went on to stage the coup attempt. Two more suggestive tweets (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/07/coup-against-wannabe-sultan-failed.html):

6:32 AM - 16 Jul 2016 (https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/754307631821516801) Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu

Journalist @sahmetsahmet says police was to arrest coup leaders yesterday before they mobilise, that led the coup pic.twitter.com/UdXViNUf1V

9:15 AM - 16 Jul 2016 (https://twitter.com/AsafRonel/status/754348789939466240) Asaf Ronel @AsafRonel

there's a report saying a anti-Gulen operation was in final stages & ignited the coup attempt - the lists were ready Katehon (https://www.sott.net/article/322358-Chaos-in-Turkey-The-Turkish-Eurasian-bloc-versus-Gulen-the-US) writes:

An important factor which incited the conspirators to decisive action was the previous disclosure of Gülen's network of supporters in the armed forces of Turkey. A week earlier, an investigation began on most of the participants of the mutiny mainly involving middle-level officers in the Air Force and Gendarmerie. They were accused of creating a parallel structure tied to Gülen and thus to his American curators. US intelligence agencies gave the green light to a coup in order to prevent the effective liquidation of their networks. ...

The Turkish Air Force is the most pro-US branch of the Turkish military. The coup attempt also reveals the existence of Gulen's network in the Air Force responsible for ruining Russian-Turkish relations, as Katehon explained earlier. According to Ankara Mayor Melih Gokcek, among those military men who organized the mutiny "was the man who was involved in the incident with the Russian Su-24." According to some sources, the the pilot was a member of the "gang" of Fethullah Gulen, known as the "parallel state." I think the best analyses so far have been coming from Katehon (https://www.sott.net/article/322358-Chaos-in-Turkey-The-Turkish-Eurasian-bloc-versus-Gulen-the-US), Andrew Korybko (http://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/why-failed-turkish-coup-attempt-wasnt-false-flag-power-grab-erdogan#.V40MtZMrJTb), and Sibel Edmonds (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2016/07/18/newsbud-sibel-edmonds-dissects-the-turkey-coup-attempt-a-cia-gulen-concocted-dry-run/) (the Saker (http://thesaker.is/failed-coup-in-turkey-a-few-initial-thoughts/) has a decent analysis too). There's only one main point on which I'd disagree with Edmonds: I don't think this was planned as a dry run for another, bigger coup in the future. I think the coup plotters' hand was forced, they jumped the gun, assumed they'd have the support they needed, and it all went pear-shaped. If Erdogan's government succeeds in purging the military, government and judicial systems of the NATO-aligned Gulenists, who will the CIA/NATO rely on to effect the real coup some time in the future? It doesn't make sense to expose your agents in a 'practice run'.

Here's what I think is the most plausible scenario: Rumors of a coup were brewing since March. Erdogan, probably in response, was already in the process of planning and carrying out a purge of the fifth columnists using intelligence sourced either from his own network, or with help from foreign nations (Russia seems likely). Risking immediate exposure, the coup was put into effect prematurely, causing it to fail. Not only was Erdogan prepared for it, the plotters weren't able to get all their ducks in a row. To add insult to injury, the fact that the attempt took place now gives Erdogan the justification to do exactly what he was planning on doing, perhaps more. Korybko writes:

Erdogan didn't need a "false flag coup" to continue with this years'-long and drawn-out agenda, though it did admittedly accelerate his plans. In arguing against the "false flag coup" theory, it's relevant to bear in mind that Erdogan is the consummate politician and never misses a chance to exploit a crisis to his benefit. After the re-establishment of his power in the wake of the failed coup, Erdogan saw an unprecedented moment to take out all of his enemies in one fell swoop, which is exactly what he's in the process of doing right now. If anything, the aftermath of the coup just reinforces the idea that this was a U.S.-backed coup. I can't think of a good reason why Turkey would deliberately put itself essentially on a war footing with the most aggressive and dangerous nation on Earth, the USA, if it did not actually have a hand in the coup. (Just like I don't think they intentionally put themselves on a war footing with Russia by downing the jet; the bloody knife was figuratively placed in their hand (https://www.sott.net/article/307233-Always-the-last-to-know-Did-Turkish-government-find-out-about-shoot-down-of-Russian-jet-after-the-fact).) Having now implicated the U.S., if Erdogan and his government are smart, they will remove all the Gulenists and do what Assad has done: closely align themselves with Russia (and China). With the integrated fifth column removed, they'll have to plan for the color revolution strategy and other hybrid warfare assaults for daring to 'betray' their masters.

Update on events

Since our last update, here's what's happened: Asya bank, tied to Gulen, has had its activities suspended (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160718/1043212526/bank-turkey-gulen.html). Government officials have been restricted (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160718/1043210662/travel-officials-oversea.html) from traveling abroad. Germany is threatening to withdraw its troops from Incirlik (Turkey has blocked access of German lawmakers). EU foreign ministers are expressing "concern (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160718/1043199677/turkey-coup-erdogan-eu.html)" over the crackdown, still worried about their migrant deal with Turkey and hinting that EU accession is not guaranteed. Kerry went so far as to threaten expulsion from NATO (umm, yes please?): "NATO also has a requirement with respect to democracy," he said. "Obviously a lot of people have been arrested, and arrested very quickly. The level of vigilance and scrutiny is obviously going to be significant in the days ahead." Prepare for unanimous condemnation of every action Turkey takes from now on (some deserved, some not, all based on double standards). In contrast, Iranian president Rouhani has praised (http://www.rferl.org/content/rohani-praises-erdogan-restoring-stability-turkey-region/27866455.html) Erdogan for restoring stability, calling the coup a "test for detecting both domestic and foreign friends and enemies", and pledging to "stand by the government of the people of Turkey."

For it's part, Turkey is not backing down. PM Yildirim (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160718/1043200626/relations-turkey-us-cleric.html) slapped Kerry back with this: "I am telling the US leadership - there is a global threat here, an attempt to oust the lawful government, directions to destroy the will of the people in the country, there is no religion or cultural values here. What other proof do they need? If, despite this, they will continue demanding evidence, then I apologise but we shall be very disappointed and the need to reconsider our relations may enter our agenda," Yildirim told a government session.

The Greek court hearing against the 8 soldiers seeking asylum there is adjourned (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160718/1043222443/coup-trial-greece.html) for 3 days, giving them the opportunity to prepare their case while in custody. Saudi Arabia has arrested (http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/07/18/475754/Saudi-Arabi-Turkish-attach-Mikail-Gullu-Dammam-Amsterdam) a Turkish military attache to Kuwait (Mikail Gullu) at the request of the Turks. "He was stopped based on a Turkish request and was detained during his attempt to flee over his likely links to the coup in Turkey." Saudi sources say he was headed for Dusseldorf, Germany, via Amsterdam. The deputy mayor of an Istanbul district, Cemil Candas, was shot in the head (http://news.trust.org/item/20160718132040-sv7c8) and is in critical condition. It's unclear who shot him and why.

Ex air force commander Akin Ozturk, accused of masterminding the coup, was first quoted as admitting (http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160718/1043226839/turkey-air-force-coup.html) to his involvement. But this was closely followed by a denial (http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160718/1043229488/ozturk-denies-coup.html): "I am not the organizer of the military coup. I had no information about who is the organizer of the coup attempt. I have to attend the wedding of the daughter of my friend. But this morning I was in Izmir, I had some business with the notary. I can prove it," he told the prosecutor. The detained commander of Incirlik, Bekir Ercan Van, reportedly approached the Americans seeking asylum, but was refused (http://www.dailysabah.com/diplomacy/2016/07/18/us-rejects-asylum-to-incirlik-base-commander-detained-for-complicity-in-failed-coup-attempt?). Big surprise.

So far, 7,542 people have been detained (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160718/1043198731/death-toll-turkey-coup-attempt.html) for involvement in the coup, 316 of them arrested. Thirty governors, 47 local governors, 7,899 police officers, 631 gendarme officers, 2,745 judges, 1,500 Finance Ministry (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160718/1043231856/gulen-ministry-turkey-employees.html) employees, and 8,777 Interior Ministry officials have been dismissed. This amounts to a figurative evisceration of the power structures in Turkey!

Additionally (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/07/wide-purges-after-stage-managed-coup-will-cripple-turkey.html):

The Higher Education Board announced an upcoming "cleaning" at schools and universities. Twenty independent Turkish news sites have been closed. Businessmen and bankers not in line with Erdogan are next (https://twitter.com/FercanY/status/754926105165979648). The lists used for these wide purges must have been prepared (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-eu-hahn-idUSKCN0ZY0EA) well ahead of the [I]coup.

3,000 soldiers, conscripts ordered to take part in the coup but also many high officers (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/6000-detained-from-turkish-army-judiciary-in-probe-into-failed-coup-attempt.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101669&NewsCatID=341) were imprisoned. These include 103 generals and admirals (https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-raids-against-suspected-coup-plotters-062813085.html), many of whom had not taken part in the coup but explicitly spoke out against it. More high officers (https://twitter.com/MahirZeynalov/status/754977132602875904) were relieved of duty. All major units (https://twitter.com/Ald_Aba/status/754780811312922624) of the Turkish military have lost some of their top commanders. Erdogan gave a speech today, which he cut off after breaking into tears and in which he said (http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/07/17/475667/turkey-erdogan-funeral-tears-failed-coup):

"We march in our funeral shrouds, and we will deal with these assassins, this cult, these followers of Fethullah," said Erdoğan on Sunday at a funeral held for those who died in the recent coup. ... At this point, Erdogan broke down into tears and was forced to cancel the reset of his speech, but earlier he vowed to rid Turkish institutions of Gülen's followers. He also claimed that "Gülen group" had infected the armed forces, and vowed to "clean all state institutions of the virus." It may be shocking, but it seems to me it's the only way to purge one's country of a foreign-backed fifth column. It's either that, or allow your nation to be run from abroad.

Harrison Koehli (https://www.sott.net/article/322455-Erdogan-benefits-from-Turkish-coup-attempt-because-it-failed-not-because-he-engineered-it#searching)


Related:
This Thanksgiving, Erdogan is the turkey (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/11/25/erdogan/)

[Hervé]

On the side of a coup designed by CIA/Masons:

F-16s harassed Erdogan plane during coup attempt, plotters tried to seize him – Reuters (https://www.rt.com/news/351760-erdogan-plane-coup-turkey/)

Published time: 17 Jul, 2016 20:31
Edited time: 18 Jul, 2016 01:55
Get short URL (http://on.rt.com/7jf4)


https://cdn.rt.com/files/2016.07/original/578bd0c5c36188c02f8b45b9.jpg
A Turkish F-16 fighter jet © Murad Sezer / Reuters


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s plane was in the crosshairs of coup plotters’ fighter jets while en route to Istanbul, Reuters reports.

The incident happened as Erdogan was heading back from a holiday resort during the recent attempted military coup.

According to a former military officer cited by Reuters, "At least two F-16s harassed Erdogan's plane while it was in the air and en route to Istanbul.” The officer, who reportedly has knowledge of the events, went on to say that “they locked their radars on his plane and on two other F-16s protecting him.”

However, the Turkish president’s plane reached its destination undamaged before dawn on Saturday. "Why they didn't fire is a mystery," the former official added.

A senior Turkish official confirmed to Reuters that the incident took place. Another official is quoted as saying that Erdogan’s plane had "trouble in the air," without providing further details.

Erdogan also reportedly said that the coup plotters had bombed places in the coastal town of Marmaris, where he had been staying, shortly after he left, as reported by Reuters. CNN Turk reported that some 25 soldiers descended from a helicopter while trying to capture the Turkish president at a Marmaris hotel. “[Erdogan] evaded death by minutes,” Reuters quotes the second senior Turkish official as saying.

The same official told Reuters that Prime Minister Binali Yildirim was also directly targeted in Istanbul during the coup attempt but managed to escape.

[Bill Ryan]

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An interesting take on what the coup may have really been all about:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWkVcztDHoU

[stevcolx]

Yup. Looks like an Erdogan planned coup to destroy his opposition. I heard from someone that lives not too far from the Presidential Palace that this was indeed orchestrated by Erdogan and his Minions.

Erdogan ill be doing his Gollum impressions again like he did with ISIS when they rolled up to his doorstep with Tankers full of stolen Syrian and Iraqi Oil...........Rubbing his hands together and screeching.......My Precious!!!

[KiwiElf]

This one just might (hopefully) backfire in his face ;)

[turiya]

More on Fethullah Gulen & his Charter Schools in America - targeting military bases, as he has done with the Turkish military... yes, you can call it an indoctrination program...


Gülen Charter Schools Investigation Press Conference


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmrAFv33Uzc

Published March 31 2016
Robert Amsterdam, lawyer at Amsterdam & Partners LLP, holds press conference updating the public on the latest developments and upcoming legal suits relating to alleged illegal conduct by the U.S. charter school network controlled by controversial Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen.
[At 26:10]

"What is concerning that my [law] firm has obtained the evidence of whistleblowers who have provided us with evidence of proselytizing (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proselytize). And by proselytizing, I mean selection of a small cadre of children in each class to be groomed to be ultimately sympathetic, and / or join the organization - in some ways mimicking the 'aubey'(?) system of the dormatories in Turkey.

We have published an article in a newspaper called "The Hill". What we can tell you at this point is that the Gulen criminal organization in the United States continues to grow - continues to move money, and launder money, and continues to operate with impunity.

We are filing State by State complaints. As I said, we filed California, we are filing Texas. And we want to make something very clear: In the United States, there is a big discussion between public schools & charter schools in terms of how education is focused. We take no position on that structure. But the Gulen organization - and in some ways I would call the Gulen organization a 'plastic' organization - it contours itself to the shape of the best financial opportunity. It has been a consistent violator of U.S. laws & regulations withing the freedom that the charter schools have been given.... and it has abused that right. So, we are continuing & will continue to file complaints in these States.

We are intending, and through this meeting, we will continue to request the testimony of Turkish-Americans & Turkish nationals who have been involved in the Gulen schools, either in Turkey or the United States, to forward to us confidentially through our website.

We will in the next month be publishing a 'White Paper' amalgamating all of our findings. And we will begin a more formal process of reviewing Gulen's activities in Africa & Europe and connecting them to his activities here . What is fundamental to understand is that [U]we believe that many of these monies have been moved back to Turkey to destabilize activities in Turkey.

And we will be urging American local, state & federal legislatures to heed the request of hundreds, if not thousands, of American taxpayers & extend the investigation of the Gulen operations, which we know are ongoing.

3rd Question: The question is: Why do they [Gulenists] want to get on military bases?

One answer is: to replicate what they have done in Turkey... to replicate this idea of a "golden generation". What appears certain, is that military bases have been targeted. They can explain why... because, as we continue shining a light on their activities, they are hiring more lawyers, more PR agencies, and people will start providing us with explanations - you can rest assured.

4th Question: Do you think the U.S. government protects Gulen & his movement?

Look... [smiling]... In the United States we have something called "The Deep State". I think you've heard of it. So, it would be naive for me to look you in the eye, and say 'No!' That's all I'm going to say.

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Fethullah Gülen Sued in U.S. over Human Rights Violations - Robert Amsterdam


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoiGO2oJlU
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"Gulen is the Islamic version of George Soros"
(Full 60 Minutes Program) (https://youtu.be/GJvWP7wBkFs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMhgBFtK2bY

Shoebat.com
By Ben Barrack on May 19, 2012
Link (http://shoebat.com/2012/05/19/the-60-minutes-whitewash-of-fethullah-gulen/)
In the 60 Minutes piece, Lesley Stahl seemed content to take what was based on a faulty premise that says: if the schools don’t teach Islam, then there is no problem. But how about what they don’t teach, like allegiance to the United States or American history?

To understand what’s behind Gulen, one has to look at the power structure in Turkey itself, which Stahl all but completely avoided. The ruling Islamist party there (AKP) is virtually run by Gulenists in a way perhaps not all that dissimilar from how George Soros’ Center for American Progress (https://www.americanprogress.org/) (CAP) is the ‘idea factory’ (http://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1861305,00.html) for the Barack Obama administration. In many ways, Gulen is the Islamic version of Soros. Both men are extremely wealthy, use that money to surreptitiously spread their ideologies, and like to operate behind the scenes as much as possible. (Emphasis mine.)

Jan Levy at American Thinker (http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/05/60_minutes_veils_education_jihad.html) explains the beliefs and deceptive tactics of Turkey’s Prime Minister:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s public statements have also defied this optimistic view of Turkey as a “moderate” Islamic state. In 2007, he was quoted in Milliyet commenting on the term “moderate Islam” to describe his party, the AKP: “These descriptions are ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.” On democracy, Erdoğan has said, “Democracy is like a street car; you ride it as far as you need, and then you get off.” About the function of mosques, he said, “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.” -- Jay Levy
Levy also points to a Washington Post blog (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/largest-charter-network-in-us-schools-tied-to-turkey/2012/03/23/gIQAoaFzcS_blog.html) entry that linked to a Turkish newspaper, which quoted Gulenist insiders. Stahl should have read that (among many other things) before deciding to portray the Gulen schools as beacons of secular learning and capitalism. According to those insiders:
…through education, we can teach tens of thousands of people the Turkish language and our national anthem, introduce them to our culture and win them over. And this is what the Gulen Movement is striving for.”Perhaps the greatest example of journalistic malpractice on the part of Stahl was a story out of Minnesota in 2008. The StarTribune’s (http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=17406054) Katherine Kersten reported on a former teacher’s firsthand account of what went on inside one of those Turkey-inspired charter schools.
Evidence suggests, however, that TIZA is an Islamic school, funded by Minnesota taxpayers.

TIZA has many characteristics that suggest a religious school. It shares the headquarters building of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whose mission is “establishing Islam in Minnesota.” The building also houses a mosque. TIZA’s executive director, Asad Zaman, is a Muslim imam, or religious leader, and its sponsor is an organization called Islamic Relief.

Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food – permissible under Islamic law — and “Islamic Studies” is offered at the end of the school day.
Though TIZA is not as easily tied to Gulen himself, it is supported by the Turkish group, Islam Relief USA, an organization with strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is itself tied to the Gulen movement. It clearly operates (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-08-17-turkishfinal17_CV_N.htm) in the same spirit – if not in direct conjunction with – the Gulen movement.

Of course, what Fethullah Gulen post would be complete without an excerpt (http://www.meforum.org/2045/fethullah-gulens-grand-ambition) from one of his sermons that helped the pre-Islamic Turkish authorities in 1998 decide that he was attempting to overthrow the government (which he actually was successful in doing from his 25 acre estate in the Poconos after fleeing those Turkish authorities):
The philosophy of our service is that we open a house somewhere and, with the patience of a spider, we lay our web to wait for people to get caught in the web; and we teach those who do. We don’t lay the web to eat or consume them but to show them the way to their resurrection, to blow life into their dead bodies and souls, to give them a life.
And we’re supposed to believe that the Gulenist charter schools have no Islamic agenda? -- by radio show host Ben Barrack

[Cidersomerset]

20,000 arrested in Turkey: "lists were already there for cleansing operation"

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Published on 19 Jul 2016
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"Erdogan is capitalizing on this purge to gain total control"

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Published on 19 Jul 2016
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[Tangri]

I do not like use too many word to explain things.


http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91903-Military-coup-in-Turkey-coup-attempt-by-part-of-army-fizzled&p=1082012&viewfull=1#post1082012

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91903-Military-coup-in-Turkey-coup-attempt-by-part-of-army-fizzled&p=1082028&viewfull=1#post1082028

[bogeyman]

It is very much a witch hunt now. It will have ramifications for security and the fight against ISIS. Further there is a possibility that intelligence officers from other immediate countries are involved and of course those in the Saudi intelligence services, which according to a recently released report have connections to 9/11.

[giovonni]

hmm ...


Turkish government crackdown touches thousands after coup attempt

PBS

"In Istanbul, thousands of supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went out to the streets, demanding retribution for those responsible for the coup over the weekend. Meanwhile, even more Turkish civil servants were detained or suspended from their jobs. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs talks to Hari Sreenivasan about the crackdown."

Published on Jul 19, 2016


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r_x84ulvm4

[Cidersomerset]

Erdogan Unleashes Unprecedented Crackdown: Fires All University Deans; Suspends 21,000 Private School Teachers

By David on 20 July 2016 GMT

by Tyler Durden
ul 19, 2016 10:56 AM

Over the weekend, after the initial reports of the purge unleashed by Erdogan against
Turkey's public, we previewed the upcoming, far more dangerous counter-coup as follows:
"it was the next step that is the critical one: the one where Erdogan - having cracked down
on his immediate military and legal opponents - took his crusade against everyone else,
including the press and the educational system."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-19/erdogan-unleashes-unprecedented-crackdown-fires-all-university-deans-suspends-21000-


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John Kerry Threatens Turkey With NATO Expulsion

By David on 20 July 2016 GMT

by Tyler Durden
Jul 18, 2016 8:12 AM

While the experts debate if Turkey's flash coup was staged or merely grossly
incompetent, a rather theatrical fallout is taking place between Turkey and the US.


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-18/john-kerry-threatens-turkey-nato-expulsion

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Turkish naval ships & choppers reportedly missing since botched coup, Turkey Deputy PM denies

Published time: 19 Jul, 2016 11:11

Edited time: 19 Jul, 2016 13:44

Turkey’s navy is still unable to account for 14 ships, while two helicopters
with 25 special forces troops are also missing since an unsuccessful coup
plot against the government. However, Deputy PM Numan Kurtulmus has
denied any naval vessels are unaccounted for.

https://www.rt.com/news/352046-navy-ships-missing-turkey/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

[ks4ever]

Not sure if correct.
Source International Spectator:
Wikileaks has released 300,000 emails belonging to Erdagon's ruling party.

[Sophocles]

It is correct.

Reuters: (http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-wikileaks-idUKKCN1000H1) Turkey blocks access to WikiLeaks after ruling party email dump

Twitter: (https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/755564353269538816) WikiLeaks ordered to be blocked nationwide in #Turkey after releasing 300 thousand emails from #Erdogan's party AKP

Independent: (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/wikileaks-emails-release-government-turkey-erdogan-block-a7145671.html) Erdogan emails: Turkey blocks access to WikiLeaks after release of 300,000 secret government emails

Wired: (https://www.wired.com/2016/07/wikileaks-dumps-erdogan-emails-turkeys-failed-coup/) WikiLeaks Dumps ‘Erdogan Emails’ After Turkey’s Failed Coup

AlJazeera: (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/turkey-blocks-wikileaks-release-ak-party-emails-160720074432202.html?src=ilaw) Turkey blocks WikiLeaks over release of AK Party emails

RT: (https://www.rt.com/news/352211-turkey-blocks-access-wikileaks/) Turkey blocks access to WikiLeaks after release of 300k govt emails over post-coup purges

[shaberon]

Those emails are mostly "outbound", that is, they will be communication to foreign places, so it won't be particularly revealing about much internal to Turkish affairs.

I'm starting to think the "purge list" was coming up for its own reasons, that Erdogan was not the instigator of the failed coup, but it certainly came as a "gift" to proceed with that. The recent policy shifts to rapprochement with Iran and Russia certainly wouldn't suit KSA, Qatar, etc., making them look more like the culprits.

[Rocky_Shorz]

4300 judges were removed within the first 12 hours, this says it all, then paid protestors hit the streets, begging for the death penalty and Shari'a law...

This is exactly how Iran was turned into an Islamic state.

The largest NATO army in the middle East, and still controlling isis, the boogy man...

[Hervé]

Two Pilots Who Shot Down Russian Su-24 Arrested in Turkey - Reports (http://sputniknews.com/world/20160718/1043239951/su-24-pilots-arrested-turkey.html)

World (http://sputniknews.com/world/) 23:55 18.07.2016
(updated 03:27 19.07.2016)


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The bomber was shot down last November. Turkey claimed the Russian plane entered its airspace, while Russia categorically denied these accusations.

"Two Turkish pilots who shot down a Russian Su-24 near the Syrian border were taken into custody, according to a senior Turkish official speaking on condition of anonymity," Bloomberg reports, citing a high-level Turkish official.


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© AFP 2016/ ADEM ALTAN Erdogan Tells Putin He's 'Sorry' Over Death of Russian Su-24 Pilot (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160627/1042017250/putin-erdogan-su24-jet.html)


It was reported earlier that at least one of the pilot's responsible for downing the Russian jet took part in last week's failed Turkish coup attempt.

The shooting down of the jet led to a crisis in relations between Moscow and Ankara. Russian President Vladimir Putin described the incident as a "stab in the back" and imposed a number of restrictive measures against Ankara, repeatedly calling on the Turkish government to apologize and cover any material losses to the pilot's family.

Putin signed a decree last month that lifted sanctions against Turkey, following an apology from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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Thinking about it and referring to the discussions about the downing of that Russian bomber, it was made possible only with the help of heavy duty intel from US-NATO radar, satellites and AWACS surveillance and data.

This would support the Gulen-educated "Fifth Column" element bent on forcing Erdogan's hand to quit negotiating with Russia,

[Hervé]

Erdogan Alerted of Incoming Coup by Russia (http://en.farsnews.com/Default.aspx)

FARSnews Wed Jul 20, 2016 8:10

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Arab media outlets quoted diplomats in Ankara as disclosing that Turkey's President Erdogan was warned of an imminent army coup by Russia hours before it was initiated on Friday, while a western media outlet said Erdogan asked his supporters to remain in the streets after receiving advice from Tehran.

Several Arab media outlets quoted diplomatic sources in Ankara as saying that Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, known locally as the MIT, received intel from the Russian army that warned of an impending coup in the Muslim state.

The unnamed diplomats said the Russian army in the region had intercepted highly sensitive army exchanges and encoded radio messages showing that the Turkish army was readying to stage a coup against the administration in Ankara.

The exchanges included dispatch of several army choppers to President Erdogan's resort hotel to arrest or kill the president.

The diplomats were not sure of the Russian station that had intercepted the exchanges, but said the Russian army intelligence unit deployed in Khmeimim (also called Hmeimim) in Syria's Northern province of Lattakia is reportedly equipped with state-of-the-art electronic and eavesdropping systems to gather highly sensitive information for the Russian squadrons that are on an anti-terrorism mission in Syria.

Khmeimim in Northwestern Syria is the only Russian air force base in the war-ravaged country that provides cover for Syrian army and popular forces in multiple fronts across the country, in addition to bombing missions against terrorist targets. The Russian naval fleet, including its only aircraft carrier, are deployed along the coasts of Lattakia border province to provide logistical aid to the air base in a short time. Meantime, Russia has deployed its highly sophisticated S-400 air defense shield at Khmeimim and announced that it covers the entire Syrian skies with the same air defense system.

Last year, Turkey shot down a Russian Sukhoi bomber over Syrian skies and President Erdogan who was then a staunch enemy of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad rejected extending an apology to Moscow for about a year, although economic sanctions by Russia as well as growing victories by the Syrian army, popular forces, Hezbollah fighters, Iranian advisors and Russian air force cornered the terrorists in Syria and similar victories against ISIL in Iraq convinced the Turkish president to not just apologize for the Sukhoi incident, but also show signs of a U-turn in foreign policy, saying that he is dropping his opposition to President Assad.

The diplomatic sources said the shift in Erdogan's foreign policy stated only a week before the coup has been "a major cause of several foreign states to provoke and promise support for the army to stage the coup, and the same shift also saved him" as it was not clear if the Russians would provide Ankara with their intel, otherwise.

Officials of neither country have made any comment on the report yet. In Ankara, official sources, including the Army iteself, confirmed that the Turkish army’s top generals had been informed of last week’s coup by the MIT hours before the plot came into action.

A statement issued by the army on July 19 described the events that took place on July 15, saying a majority within the military managed to suppress the coup attempt due to information provided by the MIT some five hours before the coup plot became public, national newspaper Hurriyet reported.

“The information given by the National Intelligence Organization on July 15, 2016, at around 4:00 p.m. was evaluated at the General Staff headquarters with the attendance of Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar, Chief of the Army General Salih Zeki Colak and Deputy Chief of Staff General Yasar Guler."

In order to counter the coup, high ranking officials within the Turkish army gave orders for all air and ground forces around the country to immediately cease operations including military vehicles such as tanks, planes and helicopters.

A report by Al-Jazeera Arabic suggests the coup plotters initiated the operation six hours ahead of time as they had previously planned to launch the coup at 3:00 a.m. local time on July 16.

While the report does not indicate the reason for the coup being initiated ahead of time, the revelation by the military suggests the coup plotters understood their plans had been compromised and decided to act.

Reports also suggest the coup plotters had orders to kidnap or kill President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as helicopters headed toward the hotel he was staying in at the holiday resort of Marmaris. But Erdogan had left 44 minutes before they arrived, according to Al-Jazeera’s report.

The official statements coming out from Ankara are in full compliance with the Arab media reports quoting the diplomatic sources on the Russian intel.

Only four days after the coup, Erdogan appeared on the media saying that he plans to declare a crucial turn in foreign policy that would "end differences with Turkey's neighboring states".

Less than a day later, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that President Erdogan would visit Russia early in August to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Meantime, Iran rushed to condemn the Turkish army coup only two hours after it started. Several top security and foreign policy officials in Tehran were in constant contact with President Erdogan and his cabinet ministers all throughout Friday.

As July 15 was coming to an end in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was on the phone with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose government was under the threat of being overthrown by a military coup. Meanwhile, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), was on another line with security officials in Ankara. All the while, Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Iran’s regional military arm, was busy pursuing and reviewing various scenarios that might emerge.

“It’s not a secret anymore,” an Iranian official told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. “Zarif, Shamkhani and Soleimani were executing higher orders. The whole establishment was too concerned. Turkey is a neighboring state. President Erdogan and his government are strong partners of Iran. Our nations enjoy strong brotherly ties, so it’s the least we can do to show solidarity and try to offer any help they might need in such critical times.”

"Another Iranian official saw parallels between the successful coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 and this year's coup attempt in Turkey," Al-Monitor said.

The official told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, “What we know is that this move was triggered by foreign hands. We went through the same in the past, and because Mr. Erdogan is today looking forward to playing a better role in the region, they want him down.” The Iranian official said, “There was a message that was conveyed to Turkish security officials: Don’t leave the streets. This coup might be made up of several waves; it happened in Iran in 1953. When the first coup failed, they had another one ready — and they succeeded.”

In Ankara, the government claims the coup and the generals behind it are loyal followers of US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who was once Erdogan’s key ally before a major fallout in 2012. Many believe that Gulen is the main cause of why Ankara officials have repeatedly accused the US of masterminding the plot.

Gulen is running a multi-billion dollar enterprise in Saudi Arabia and has grown into a serious bone of contention in Ankara-Riyadh ties. Saudi Arabia reserved condemnation of the coup in a suspicious move. Later, reports surfaced the media that the top brass in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi - two strong allies of the US with unbreakably intimate ties with each other in the Persian Gulf - were involved in the coup.

Saudi whistle-blower Mujtahid, who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family, dislosed that senior government officials in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi had been informed of the coup in Turkey long before it took place.

Mujtahid wrote on his twitter page on Monday that the UAE leaders had played a role in the coup and the Turkish spy agencies have come to decode this involvement, adding that the UAE leaders had also alerted the Saudis about the impending coup.

"Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammad bin Salman had been informed of the military coup in Turkey," Mujtahid wrote on his twitter page on Monday.

"There are reasons which show that given his intimate relations with Mohammad bin Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan (the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces), Mohammad bin Salman was aware of this coup," he added.

According to Mujtahid, Turkish intelligence agencies have received information about some negative collaboration between bin Salman and bin Zayed, but the Saudis have managed to convince the Justice and Development party to rest assured and be optimistic about Riyadh's measures.

He revealed that bin Salman has been trying to convince the Turks to conceal the UAE's role in the coup and has promised a large amount of cash in reprisal.

The last week coup in Turkey is now growing into a major regional confrontation over Turkey's shift in policy over Syria now. If confirmed, the Russian and Iranian aid to Erdogan would mean the power balance and equations in the region ought to be redefined.

[Tangri]

Those emails are mostly "outbound", that is, they will be communication to foreign places, so it won't be particularly revealing about much internal to Turkish affairs.

I'm starting to think the "purge list" was coming up for its own reasons, that Erdogan was not the instigator of the failed coup, but it certainly came as a "gift" to proceed with that. The recent policy shifts to rapprochement with Iran and Russia certainly wouldn't suit KSA, Qatar, etc., making them look more like the culprits.

"Those emails are mostly "outbound", that is, they will be communication to foreign places, so it won't be particularly revealing about much internal to Turkish affairs."

Still, they are very important what promise were given to gain governmental power to certain parties.(USA, Israel ,Saudis )
I Checked few hundreds e mail, it is impossible to find useful proofs with 1 man power over 300.000 e-mails it needs a team work, which Turkey political opposition party does not have.

Suddenly, he fires all University Deans and elementary, secondary schools' teachers 20.000. 6 000 judges , attorney generals.
It is a confession that, those people(Fetullah Gulen supporters) assigned by government to those position, prior to the coup attempt.

Those generals and lower rank officers were discharged by Military board but denied by Government 10 years ago.

[Wind]

This "coup" was nothing more than Erdogan's own false flag to purge his country from the last remnants of democracy.
It's absolutely hypocritical and sickening that the US government is supporting Erdogan's fascist actions, same goes for EU.
Karma will be a... Well you know what.

[Cidersomerset]

David commenting on the wider current situation From Brisbane 20 /7 /16

Chaos And Fear: The Currency of Control - The David Icke Videocast/Podcast Trailer

By Jaymie on 21 July 2016 GMT

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Published on 20 Jul 2016
All David's Books Now Available Here http://www.DavidIckeStore.com

[Cidersomerset]

Questioning The Turkish Coup

By David on 21 July 2016 GMT


ACTIVIST POST......

Questioning the Turkish Coup

Devon Bowers
July 20, 2016

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‘As readers may know, I generally do not delve into the ideas of false flags
and whatnot. It isn’t that I don’t think that false flags don’t exist, it’s just
that it isn’t what I do my research in. However, the information surrounding
the coup attempt gets more and more interesting and perplexing, certain
events and occurrences don’t make sense.

1. According to Reuters, pro-coup planes had Erdogan’s presidential plane in
their sights, but didn’t shoot him down. Specifically Reuters reported that “At
the height of the attempt to overthrow Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the
rebel pilots of two F-16 fighter jets had Erdogan’s plane in their sights. And
yet he was able to fly on” and quoted a Turkish military official as saying “At
least two F-16s harassed Erdogan’s plane while it was in the air and en route
to Istanbul. They locked their radars on his plane and on two other F-16s
protecting him.”’

Read more: Questioning The Turkish Coup

https://www.davidicke.com/headlines


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Erdogan announces three month state of emergency in Turkey after coup attempt

By David on 21 July 2016 GMT Political Manipulation War and Terror

A state of emergency will be introduced in Turkey for three months following a coup
attempt last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday.

Speaking in a live broadcast address following a meeting with the National Security
Council in the capital of Ankara, the Turkish leader said the decision was not against
the rule of law, and did not violate any democratic freedoms.



INDEPENDENT.......

Turkey Coup: Erdogan declares three-month state of emergency


President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the measure was being taken
to counter threats to Turkish democracy
Alexandra Sims |
8 hours ago|

Turkey's president has declared a state of emergency for three months following a
failed coup to oust his government. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the measure
was being taken to counter threats to Turkish democracy. He said the move was not
intended to curb basic freedoms.

Speaking after a meeting of the National Security Council in Ankara lasting nearly five
hours, he said the state of emergency was needed "to remove this threat as soon as possible".

Read more: Erdogan announces three month state of emergency in Turkey after coup attempt

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-coup-erdogan-declares-three-month-state-of-emergency-a7147171.html

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Turkish gov’t using attempted coup as excuse for crackdown – Turkish professor

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Published on 20 Jul 2016


Turkey has banned all academics from going abroad as a part of the country-wide
crackdown that has resulted in thousands of people being detained or suspended
from their jobs over their suspected ties to the coup. Maya Arakon, associate
professor at Suleyman Sah University, says that many Turkish citizens are afraid of
the government using the coup as an excuse to remove those who oppose the
Erdogan administration. US-Turkish relations will also be impacted as the Turkish
government seeks to extradite an Islamic cleric suspected of inspiring the coup.
Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof and RT correspondent William Whiteman
join Anya Parampil to discuss.

Find RT America in your area: http://rt.com/where-to-watch/

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Turkey coup attempt: State of emergency announced


President Erdogan explains why he has declared a state of emergency

Turkey's president has declared a state of emergency for three months following
Friday night's failed army coup.The emergency allows the president and cabinet to
bypass parliament when drafting new laws and to restrict or suspend rights and
freedoms.Speaking at the presidential palace in Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
vowed that "all the viruses within the armed forces will be cleansed".

Thousands of people have been arrested or sacked since the failed coup.More than
600 schools have also been closed and thousands of state workers sacked in a
crackdown by the president.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36852080

[Cidersomerset]

The purge: Sharp backlash after failed coup in Turkey (part 1)

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Published on 20 Jul 2016

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The purge: Sharp backlash after failed coup in Turkey (part 2)

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Published on 20 Jul 2016

[Sophocles]

Fifth column hamstrung by post-coup purge: Turkey realigning with axis of resistance? (https://www.sott.net/article/322678-Fifth-column-hamstrung-by-post-coup-purge-Turkey-realigning-with-axis-of-resistance)

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:41 UTC

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CIA-backed terrorist trainer and recruiter Fethullah Gulen

Continuing our coverage of the coup in Turkey (see here (https://www.sott.net/article/322207-Breaking-news-Military-coup-under-way-in-Turkey-Jets-troops-helicopters-surround-government-buildings) for the previous updates, and here (https://www.sott.net/article/322455-Erdogan-benefits-from-Turkish-coup-attempt-because-it-failed-not-because-he-engineered-it) for my previous Focus), news from the past two days has not slowed down. It's coming fast and hard. Erdogan has just announced a 3-month state of emergency. (https://www.rt.com/news/352361-turkey-state-emergency-erdogan/)

In FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds's recent commentary (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2016/07/18/newsbud-sibel-edmonds-dissects-the-turkey-coup-attempt-a-cia-gulen-concocted-dry-run/), she made the comment that detaining or firing a few thousand individuals would do little to counter the scope of the Gulenist fifth column in Turkey. Well, since those initial numbers, Turkish authorities have fired thousands more public officials and employees.

Breaking it down in numbers so far, the following (http://theduran.com/erdogans-mass-purge-numbers-15000-educators-8000-police-3500-soldiers-3000-judges/) have been suspended from their previous positions (close to 60,000 people in total): 21,000 private teachers (including 1,577 university deans, public and private - 626 institutions have been closed), 15,000 Education Ministry personnel (latest report adds an additional 6,500 staff members (https://www.rt.com/news/352247-turkey-coup-crackdown-erdogan/)), 399 Ministry of Family and Social Policies employees, 257 employees (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160719/1043262874/turkey-staff-ousted-coup-attempt.html) in the office of the prime minister, 8,000 police officers, 3,500 soldiers, 3,000 judges and prosecutors (all of whom are under investigation) including 2 constitutional judges (https://www.rt.com/news/352349-turkey-judges-prosecutors-coup-crackdown/) and 262 military judges/prosecutors, 492 clerics, 130 MIT spies, 120 generals and admirals (that's just under 30% of all generals), and the commander of the Turkish Gendarmerie Gen. Galip Mendi. (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160719/1043302885/general-mendi-dismissed.html)

More than 9,300 people (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160719/1043278094/turkey-military-coup-investigation.html) are currently under investigation for involvement in the coup. In addition to all government officials, all university professors have been banned (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160720/1043318389/coup-ban-turkey-travel.html) from traveling abroad. Turkey's main religious body has banned (https://www.rt.com/news/352285-turkey-muslim-funeral-coup/) all religious funeral services for military troops killed during the attempted coup; it only applies to those who actively took part, not those who participated "unwittingly or under duress".

There are conflicting reports (https://www.rt.com/news/352046-navy-ships-missing-turkey/) over the possibility that 14 ships and 2 helicopters of the Turkish military - including 25 special forces involved in a raid on the hotel Erdogan was staying at during the coup - are still unaccounted for. (Turkish officials deny it; Turkish media reports they're missing and could seek asylum in Greece.) As I speculated in my previous article (https://www.sott.net/article/322455-Erdogan-benefits-from-Turkish-coup-attempt-because-it-failed-not-because-he-engineered-it), the Turkish Armed Forces have confirmed that they knew (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160719/1043264692/turkey-coup-intelligence-statement.html) the coup was to take place: "On July 15 the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) was informed [about the coup attempt]... in this regard... the country's airspace was closed, military aircraft flights were prohibited." (Speaking of helicopters, check out this footage (https://www.rt.com/news/352304-cctv-turkey-failed-coup/) of the attacks from Friday.)

Details leaked (Details leaked about the kill-or-capture mission directed against Erdogan on the day of the coup:) about the kill-or-capture mission directed against Erdogan on the day of the coup:


Hurriyet reported that First Army Commander Umit Dundar contacted Erdogan on Friday night, about an hour before the coup began, to inform him that putschists had started to move on his position, allowing time for the president to escape before soldiers stormed his place of residence.
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The newspaper said that special units backed by helicopters stormed the hotel to arrest or assassinate the president, about a half hour after he left. By that time, he was on his way to Istanbul.

Details of the story were confirmed by Al-Jazeera Istanbul bureau chief Abdul Azim Mohammed, who added that the three helicopters from the military's special forces that arrived at Erdogan's hotel in Marmaris were carrying 40 soldiers with the intention of killing or capturing the president.

YeniSafak editor Ibrahim Karagul directly accused (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/07/the-after-coup-purges-in-turkey-continue-the-erdogan-administration-is-firing-any-public-servant-who-might-just-might-not.html) the U.S. of this plot to murder Erdogan. PM Yildirim's convoy was also targeted (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160720/1043320395/military-coup-pm-turkey.html) by Gendarmerie members on its way from Istanbul to Ankara

The leaks also included details on how the plotters communicated, and how they were forced to put their plans into effect prematurely:


Al Jazeera also received leaks of a series of WhatsApp messages between the coup leaders and participants. They had created a group on the smartphone application to communicate and send commands to their fellow conspirators. The leaks show that the group was active, with the coup leadership receiving responses from their subordinates. According to the leaked messages, the coup was planned to start at 3am, but an emergency forced them to bring forward the start of their plot in Ankara and Istanbul.
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The leaked messages include an order to the coup forces present on the Bosphorus bridges to allow some stranded citizens to leave and to kill any resisting police officers trying to cross the bridge.

Copies of the leaked messages confirmed that former air force commander General Akin Ozturk was the mastermind of the attempted coup, and that the original plan was to declare a state of emergency and curfew and halt air traffic at 6am.

In another leak, WikiLeaks has pushed forward their release of some 300,000 emails sent by Erdogan's AKP party members. WL assures its readers that the leaks come from a legitimate source not connected "in any way" to the recent coup (how they can be so sure of that is anyone's guess - do they know every individual involved in the failed coup?). The leak was allegedly obtained (http://theduran.com/wikileaks-releases-295000-emails-belonging-erdogans-akp-party-turkey-blocks-wikileaks-site/) a week before the coup, with emails dating from 2010 to July 6, 2016. Upon their release, WikiLeaks reported coming under some intensive cyberattacks. For its part, the Turkish government has responded by blocking online access (https://www.rt.com/news/352211-turkey-blocks-access-wikileaks/) to WikiLeaks.

New arrests include: Erdogan's military air force aide Erkan Kivrak (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160719/1043267416/military-coup-aide-arrest.html), Erdogan's chief military adviser Col. Ali Yazici (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160720/1043361196/erdogan-yazici-arrest.html), 14 servicemen (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160719/1043282308/turkey-erdogan-attack-servicemen-arrest.html) who attempted to attack Erdogan during the coup attempt, and the 2 pilots (https://www.rt.com/news/352050-turkish-pilots-arrested-su24/) accused of shooting down the Russian Su-24 back in November (arrested for coup involvement, not the shoot-down). As Joe Quinn wrote at the time, it seemed unlikely to us that Erdogan would do such a thing. He was "the last to know" and - put in the position of holding the blood-soaked dagger in his hand - took responsibility for what was probably carried out by the very fifth column he is now purging. The CIA/NATO/Gulen network wanted to make sure Turkey could not align more closely with Russia, and it worked. Now, that trend is reversing, dramatically.

The Turks shamed the U.S. for sheltering the CIA-backed terrorist Gulen. The Americans responded, saying, "Show us the evidence, send us the extradition request." Well, Ankara has done just that. PM Yildirim told parliament (https://www.sott.net/article/322500-Turkey-sends-dossiers-to-US-calling-for-extradition-of-Gulen-believed-to-have-orchestrated-coup-attempt) today: (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-sends-four-dossiers-to-us-over-extradition-of-gulen.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101806&NewsCatID=338)


We have sent four dossiers to the United States for the extradition of the terrorist chief. We will present them with more evidence than they want.... We have more than enough evidence, more than you could ask for, on Gülen. There is no need to prove the coup attempt; all evidence shows that the coup attempt was organized on his will and orders.

White House spokesman John Earnest told reporters: (http://sputniknews.com/us/20160719/1043299439/formal-gulen-extradition-request.html)


There were materials presented by the Turkish government in electronic form to the US government related to Mr. Gulen's status, and the Department of Justice and Department of State will review those materials consistent with the requirements of the extradition treaty between the United States and Turkey that's been on the books for more than 30 years now.

The Western hypocrites are reacting as expected. After it became clear that the CIA coup was a failure, Obama expressed support for Erdogan's government. Now, the leaders of the "free" world are taking off the mask, bit by bit. For example, Nato SG Stoltenberg, sanctimoniously braying (https://www.sott.net/article/322409-NATOs-Stoltenberg-warns-Erdogan-to-ensure-full-respect-for-democracy-in-coup-aftermath), "Being part of a unique community of values, it is essential for Turkey, like all other Allies, to ensure full respect for democracy and its institutions, the constitutional order, the rule of law and fundamental freedoms." Kerry: "NATO also has a requirement with respect to democracy. ... The level of vigilance and scrutiny is obviously going to be significant in the days ahead. Hopefully we can work in a constructive way that prevents a backsliding."

Turkey is mulling reinstating the death penalty (https://www.sott.net/article/322439-Erdogan-ready-to-introduce-death-penalty-after-failed-coup), which is verboten (https://www.sott.net/article/322418-EU-warns-Turkey-that-death-penalty-reinstatement-would-end-Turkeys-accession-to-EU) for an EU member. Thus, if brought back into practice, it would end Turkey's chances for accession to the EU. At this point, it doesn't look like Turkey cares. It may even be the opportunity for the EU to refuse them, sparing Turkey the bother of telling them to go to hell. What will they do now? Well, economic warfare (https://www.sott.net/article/322496-Turkey-may-encounter-economic-war-from-the-West-following-failed-coup-attempt) is surely on the table (S&P just downgraded (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160720/1043360540/turkey-sovereign-rating.html) Turkey's sovereign credit rating), not to mention increased terror attacks in Turkey (from Gladio operatives as well as blowback from the 'moderate rebels' in Syria who won't be too pleased with their supply lines being cut). At this point, Turkey's relationship with the EU and NATO is looking shaky at best. What will NATO do to retain control of the coveted Incirlik air base?

As I mentioned in my previous article, Iran is pledging to stand by Turkey's government. Rouhani and Erdogan spoke recently by telephone, discussing (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160719/1043299990/turkey-syria-policy-shift.html) "prospects for peace in the region". Azerbaijan has also renewed its support for the Turkish government by taking an Azeri TV station off the air (http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijani-tv-station-shut-down-gulen-interview-turkey/27867890.html) which planned to broadcast an interview with Gulen, calling it "overt terrorist propaganda" and claiming it would damage Baku's strategic links with Turkey. Iraqi FM Ibrahim Jaafari says Iraq is willing to mediate (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160719/1043301321/us-iraq-syria-turkey.html) between Syria and Turkey in order to help improve relations between the two countries. (Turkish forces pulled out (http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/nineveh-council-turkish-forces-withdrawing-bashiqa/) from Iraqi territory during the coup attempt.) Speaking of which, in his discussion with Rouhani, Erdogan said, "we are even more determined to work hand-in-hand with Iran and Russia to resolve regional problems and to strengthen our efforts to return peace and stability to the region and to free it from the terrorists." Fars News Agency reports that Turkish intelligence agents were pulled from Aleppo back to Turkey.

If you have the time, check out this insightful analysis (https://www.sott.net/article/322406-Behind-the-CIAs-desperate-Turkey-coup-attempt) from William Engdahl. He writes:


What is interesting to watch now will be the foreign policy of Erdogan: Rapprochement with Russia, reopening talks on the Russia Turkish Stream gas pipeline to the Greek border. The simultaneous Erdogan rapprochement with Netanyahu. And most critical, Erdogan's apparent agreement, part of Putin's demands for resumption of ties, that Turkey cease efforts to topple Assad by covertly backing DAESH or other terrorists in Syria and training them in Turkey, selling their oil on the black market. This is a huge geopolitical defeat for Obama, probably the most incompetent President in American history (even though he has some serious competition for the title from George W. Bush and Clinton).

In short, the CIA really screwed the pooch on this one. They went all in and lost the pot. If anything, they have given Erdogan all he needs in order to align even further with Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Iraq.

However, there are still some uncertainties. After Erdogan's apology, Russia allowed tourists to travel to Turkey after the previous months' ban. Now, in response to the political situation in Turkey, Aeroflot has once again restricted (https://www.rt.com/business/352224-aeroflot-russia-turkey-flights/) tourist travel to Turkey "until the situation improves". Is this strictly a response to the immediate, tense political climate? Or a hint that Turkey's relationship with Russia is still very conditional. 'Chocolates, roses, and poems' won't be enough to regain Russia's trust and forge a strong international relationship.

And while some were speculating that Turkey would basically boot NATO out of Incirlik, airstrikes recommenced after the base was shut down and blockaded for only a day or so. Ankara is still set to receive its first two F-35 Joint Strike fighter jets (http://sputniknews.com/military/20160720/1043363472/turkey-coup-f-35s.html) from Lockheed, which makes sense: all companies like Lockheed care about is getting paid. Syria's Kurds are also blaming Turkey (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160720/1043337656/turkey-government-kurds-allegations.html) for fabricating "a pretext to attack us" by claiming that the pilots who bombed parliament have fled to the Kurds' Rojava autonomous region.

The situation in Turkey is far from clear. With the suspension of close to 60,000 government, military, and private employees, there is bound to be some loss of coordination and functioning until these institutions re-stabilize. Turkey isn't yet out of the dark, and it remains to be seen how reliable Erdogan will be in realigning his foreign policy according to anything resembling a sane approach. Stay tuned, because it's bound to be interesting!

Source (https://www.sott.net/article/322678-Fifth-column-hamstrung-by-post-coup-purge-Turkey-realigning-with-axis-of-resistance)

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Turkey to temporarily suspend European Convention on Human Rights after coup attempt (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-to-temporarily-suspend-european-convention-on-human-rights-after-coup-attempt.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101910&NewsCatID=338)

[Cidersomerset]

''The list for the crackdown was already prepared , they were getting
ready for them''............



Turkey coup: Mark Urban reports from Ankara - BBC Newsnight

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Published on 20 Jul 2016

The coup in Turkey collapsed within 14 hours. It caused deaths in the hundreds
and did almost the exact opposite of what its leaders had set out to achieve -
it appears to have strengthened the position of President Erdogan and given
him a pretext for a clampdown on opponents. Turkey in the aftermath of the
coup is a turbulent place, as Mark Urban reports from Ankara.

Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with
analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.

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First 'social media coup' in Turkey - BBC News

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Published on 17 Jul 2016
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[Hervé]

From a practical standpoint, what Erdogan is trying to achieve is the purge of most of the Gulen-educated military, judicial, legislative and administrative government personnel... Herculean task!

... that's akin to some president in the United States intending to rid the system of all the Masonic-educated members holding position of power in the US military, justice, legislative, financial and administrative systems... and look at what happened to one of those presidents (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?27226-The-Vile-Truth-of-the-JFK-Assassination) and his family who decided to tackle the CIA in such a way; when he/they ran into the Skull & Bones confrerie (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?26195-POLICE-STATE-How-it-came-about-in-the-US-of-A)...

Education (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89230-When-Vested-Interests-Take-Education-over...)... when special, vested interests take it over... I do recommend listening very carefully to what Lindsey Williams discloses in this video regarding the "education" of "elite" members:


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[Flash]

they believe that you are dum, stupid, don't understand what they are doing. They believe they have every right to do what they are doing. The head of Goldman Sachs said "we are doing God's work".

i had been told exactly the same thing by someone who was a young guy groomed to be high level politician. Exactly that - "we are taught that people are dum, they do not understand and this is why we do not tell them the truth, they cannot understand, and we decide for them, don't be naive".

All elites in all countries are educated that way. All high level politicians, all high level executives or large corporations, all of them. And they believe themselves (even if I do find many of them very stupid at times).

Starting at 25:37 minutes in the Lindsay Williams video.

This is a very good video, even though I always find Lindsay William long and tedious to listen to, repeating himself way too much. Lindsay: I am intelligent, no need to repeat lol......

they need borrowers in order to make money, so ATT was so rich that it did not borrow, so they declared it a monopoly.

they moved our industries abroad in China, made money and put their money to Linchestein for the ultra rich, Belize for the second ladder, Carribeans islands for lower ladder yet, nobody is letting their money in USA.

they young elite he says are chosen from College years or before and are taught how to enslave people. Hear it at 35:26 minute

They do have a code of ethics, but very different than ours. They use buzz words that can be recognized with training. One of this code is "they must tell you everything they are going to do before they do it" - true, seen it again and again in different circumstances.

The elite are taught "control everything, own nothing" not even the coat on their back. They own nothing, no airplance, no house, and never have an income, but use it all, paid by the company you use, paid by others and we are paying for it. I had heard that too: "you never use your mney to make money, you use other's money". Tax hte rich!! Lindsay Wiliams is laughing and says the rich are too, because they have nothing to be taxed. They are taught to control everything and own nothing.

I was thinking as I listened that Hilary Clinton is the typical example of it. She owns nothing, it is a charity she controls that owns the billions, an untaxable charity, a charity that became sooooo rich, to which head of sttes and heads of multinationals and banks are pouring money into. She is typical in that mindset.

They are taught how to use trust, how to use contractual companies,

At the end lindsay is talking of briberies and black mail of congressmans.

This guy is telling the truth, and he is talking only of the bare bottom line of truth, not the real culprit, most probably because his audience could not take it, it would brake their paradigms.

[Hervé]

Russia and Kemalists played a major role: Dugin on the Coup d' État In Turkey (http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/07/russia-and-kemalists-played-major-role.html)


July 21st, 2016 ~ Fort Russ -
Katehon (http://katehon.com/directives/coup-d-etat-turkey) - Dugin's Guideline -


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Dugin's guideline: the truth about the recent pro-american coup d'état in Turkey

•geopolitical analysis & forecast
•the chronology of the pro-americain coup d'état

Greetings, you are watching Dugin’s Guideline. At the end of last week, an attempted coup d’état took place in Turkey. It was thwarted.

It just so happened that on Friday, July 15th, I was live on Tsargrad TV from Ankara speaking about the terrorist attack in Nice. Who could know that literally just a few hours later, a coup would begin.


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And so here is what happened. Given that during my visit I had met with a number of senior officials in Turkish politics and in particular with the mayor of Ankara, Ibrahim Melih Gokcek, the overall picture of the political alignment of forces in Turkey on the eve of the putsch seemed to me to be completely clear. That very same Ibrahim Melih Gokcek, a figure very close to President Erdogan, told me during our conversations of a parallel state, paralel devlet in Turkish, which the sect of Fethullah Gulen succeeded in establishing in Turkey. This sect has its headquarters in the US, in Pennsylvania, from which a developed network of agents of influence which have penetrated Turkish society are managed. Melih Gokcek confessed that he had not immediately figured this out, but that it had later become clear that CIA-managed structures were operating under the guise of humanitarian programs and charity.

What’s more, Melih Gokcek said in a private conversation something that, once the coup had already begun, he announced publicly: it was none other than Fethullah Gulen’s sect which stood behind the downing of our plane and murder of our pilot. The US’ objective was embroiling Ankara and Moscow at a time when both countries were coming to an understanding. The plane and the death of the pilot were a tool of geopolitical intrigue. Meanwhile, the Americans understood that Erdogan’s positions, whom they wanted to replace with their direct protégé, Davutoglu, would become shaky thanks to a boycott of Russia. Thus, two forces formed in Turkey: one of them was made up of conditional Kemalists, patriots who wanted to immediately restore relations with Russia and then pushed Erdogan to apologize, and the Gulen sect and other purely pro-American structures who, on the contrary, did everything they could to prevent this.

When Melih Gokcek and I parted ways two hours before the coup, he said: “We underestimated the power of the parallel state that the Americans and Gulen’s supporters established inside Turkey. This was our mistake. But now we are going to fix it, the first step being new rapprochement with Moscow.”

When I was waiting for my flight to Moscow at the Ankara airport, I heard shots and explosions. The airport was shut down by soldiers and flights were canceled. The news spread that a coup was underway. People said that the military had rebelled against Erdogan. But it was immediately clear for me that the American agents in the mid-range, but influential positions of the army, i.e., Fethullah Gulen’s network, had opted for extreme measures. This was the last chance to kick out Erdogan, who, supported by the Kemalists, decided to break with Washington and turn to Eurasian politics, to Moscow. Many Turkish politicians then told me that Turkey was seriously considering exiting NATO and striving for a rapprochement with Moscow on security issues, so the American agents had only one way out: a coup. This is what the pro-American forces attempted to accomplish.

Uncertainty dragged on for one night. But by the morning, the patriotic forces of Turkey had quelled the mutiny. And what was before just a whisper immediately began to be announced from public podiums by not only the mayor of Ankara or the prime minister, but also by Erdogan himself: the coup was launched by the same forces who shot down the Russian plane. Nothing personal: just the parallel state, the paralel devlet.

But now nothing can hinder Turkey from leaving NATO, getting closer with Russia, and once and for all breaking off relations with those who wanted to overthrow the legitimate government. “Forward to the Moscow-Ankara Axis”, as my book released in Turkey 10 years ago was titled. Back then, I explicitly, like other times, ran ahead. But now history has caught up with this strategic idea.

Goodbye, you’ve been watching Dugin’s Pro-Turkish Guideline.

For many centuries, Russia and Turkey prevented each other from achieving their desired goals. Hence the numerous wars. If we pursue a common strategy, we can resolve all of our problems together by means of peace and strategic partnership. It was this alternative that the great Russian philosopher, Slavophile, and conservative, Konstantin Leontyev, so prophetically spoke of.

[shaberon]

I remember this Gulen movement from 20 years ago. Initially, it made the impression of popular resistance, but a little further down the road, started looking like CIA manipulation and the long road of NGOs going into a country to subvert it. It was probably the thing that made me decide that the U. S. is _never up to anything good, meddling in other countries.

With the likely actors being Gulenists, KSA, UAE...then this faction seems to be what Erdogan started dodging, whether by personal choice or some kind of pressure. It seems likely that Turkey will turn to the Shanghai Cooperative and other elements in that sphere. This will reduce the strife in Syria, and put Israel in a hard bargaining spot, if they don't want to follow the Gulf monarchies to nowhere.

Concurrent U. S. move appears to be new Lebanese ambassador who aspires to erase Hezbollah. But the CIA/Zionist antics are running out of room for dirty tricks as they continually get exposed. The failed coup could also be a setup, in that the resulting harsh crackdown could then be used by U. S. for further repercussions, which wouldn't be a big surprise.

[Flash]

I am surprised that the Gulen movement is involved in this coup attempt. I thought that Erdogan's govenrment had been elected by a the religious groups - the kemalist who are secularist did help Erdogan - this does not make much sense.

I am now relating the Gulen movement to some prominent religious businessman in Turkey, which I had not understood up to now - these businessman were always backed by USA business people.



I remember this Gulen movement from 20 years ago. Initially, it made the impression of popular resistance, but a little further down the road, started looking like CIA manipulation and the long road of NGOs going into a country to subvert it. It was probably the thing that made me decide that the U. S. is _never up to anything good, meddling in other countries.

With the likely actors being Gulenists, KSA, UAE...then this faction seems to be what Erdogan started dodging, whether by personal choice or some kind of pressure. It seems likely that Turkey will turn to the Shanghai Cooperative and other elements in that sphere. This will reduce the strife in Syria, and put Israel in a hard bargaining spot, if they don't want to follow the Gulf monarchies to nowhere.

Concurrent U. S. move appears to be new Lebanese ambassador who aspires to erase Hezbollah. But the CIA/Zionist antics are running out of room for dirty tricks as they continually get exposed. The failed coup could also be a setup, in that the resulting harsh crackdown could then be used by U. S. for further repercussions, which wouldn't be a big surprise.

[Hervé]

It seems like Fethullah Gülen qualifies for the Lindsey Willams' Liechtenstein elite level:

he lives in a Pennsylvania rural hamlet, is a multi-billionaire and run multi-billion dollars "schools":


CIA Suspicion in Gulen's Refusal (http://seeking-truths.blogspot.fr/2008/08/cia-suspicion-in-gulens-refusal.html)
June 27th 2008 Milliyet - Ahu Özyurt - Translated by Mizgin Yilmaz (Rasti (http://rastibini.blogspot.com/))

Among the reasons given by the US State Department's attorneys as to why Gülen's permanent residence application was refused, is the suspicion of CIA financing of his movement.

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Among the documents (http://seeking-truths.blogspot.fr/) that the state attorneys presented, there are claims about the Gülen movement's financial structure and it was emphasized that the movement's economic power reached $25 billion. "Schools, newspapers, universities, unions, television channels . . . The relationship among these are being debated. There is no transparency in their work," claimed the attorneys. They continued, "Gülen's own statements indicate that he is a religious man who spreads his philosophy through education; however, he is not an educator."

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Gülen’s movement began in a small Turkish town in the 1950’s with about a dozen students but has expanded into a present-day estimate of over 10 millions followers and in more than fifty-five countries, including the rapidly growing initiative in the United States. Gülen presents himself as a representative of peace through education, and yet under his modernist robe he is a devout Turkic Islamist. His charisma entices young intellectuals into his inner circle where they are indoctrinated with his philosophy in numerous countries with the purpose of advancing the goal of establishing a worldwide Islamic state and eradicating secular governance.

An abbreviated rubric indicates a few ways that Muslim missionaries are using NGOs as a platform as well as the American taxpayer’s money to convert people to Islam and secretly to gain the power bring the theocracy system of government.

Rubric for Interfaith Dialogue Trap in the U.S.
1999
Rumi Foundations Established to target academia
Working with many distinguished universities and professors all over North America like Seyyed H. Nasr of George Washington, Sydney Griffith of CAU, Esposito of Georgetown, Maria Dakake of GMU.” Gülen is the honorary president.
http://www.rumiforum.org/activities/activities.php (http://www.rumiforum.org/activities/activities.php)
April 19-20, 2005
John Hopkins University: The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Turkey's Journalists and Writers Foundation
"Islam, Secularism and Democracy: The Turkish Experience”. Guild establish by Gülen; Ongoing discussion
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/mediastream/videoOndemand/turkish_041904.html (http://www.sais-jhu.edu/mediastream/videoOndemand/turkish_041904.html)
November. 12-13, 2005
The Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious
Tolerance at Rice University and A. D. Bruce Religion Center University of Houston
Conference on “Islam in the Contemporary World: The Fethullah Gülen Movement in
Thought and Practice.”
http://www.fethullahgulenconference.org/ (http://www.fethullahgulenconference.org/)
Niagara Foundation's International Symposium "The Chicago Interfaith Gathering
towards Interreligious Dialogue in the New Millennium: Finding Common
Ground.” This Foundation is a branch of Interfaith Dialogues and as such holds
regularly scheduled activities related to Gulen’s mission.
http://www.niagarafoundation.org/ (http://www.niagarafoundation.org/)
October 3, 2005
Washington Post article “As the Holy Month Begins, Followers of a Turkish Leader Interpret Islam and Holiday for Themselves” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpyn/content/article/2005/10/03/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpyn/content/article/2005/10/03/)
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The Whirling Dervishes tour the US .
An event for his students to read from the Qur’an and to hand out copies of his books.
http://www.whirlingdervishes.org/ (http://www.whirlingdervishes.org/)
2000
Rain Drop Foundation A non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to presenting, perpetuating, transmitting and promoting Turkish and Turkish American arts and culture to diverse audiences and to providing a center to enhance community programs. They are financed by Gulen’s movement.
http://www.rdftx.org/ (http://www.rdftx.org/)
2001
Zaman newspaper Gulen’s newspaper first published in Turkey, but now published in the US as well as in numerous other countries.
http://www.zaman.com/ (http://www.zaman.com/)
The Fountain Magazine Gulen’s magazine
http://www.fountainmagazine.com/index.php (http://www.fountainmagazine.com/index.php)
Herkul Organization his web page in audio; he is reaching through his voice to his followers.http://www.herkul.org/
Ant Stores, Inc. online, mail order bookstore Ant Stores operates as a division of The Light Inc located in New Jersey. The business sells “a variety of different languages of books, mainly focused on providing a platform for objective expressions of those belief systems, values, perspectives, practices and traditions that have shaped the lives of billions of people in the world for centuries.”
http://www.antstores.com/ (http://www.antstores.com/)

Light Publishers, based Somerset, New Jersey The Light Publishers is designed to combat the picture of Islam as the religion of 9/11.
The Pearls of Wisdom site Proposes to answer the basic questions of humanity. “This site has been prepared mainly based on the works of Bediuzzaman, Said Nursi and Mr. Fethullah Gülen.
http://www.pearls.org/ (http://www.pearls.org/)
Elite Media A 24-hour online magazine service. It provides a list of all of Gulen’s magazines.
http://www.mybestmagazines.com (http://www.mybestmagazines.com/)
Fethullah Gülen Website combines comprehensive information about his life, his writings, and his activities.
http://en.fgulen.com/ (http://en.fgulen.com/)
This Way to Truth website Offers the viewer the opportunity to “Discover Islam,” discussing theological issues and topics.
http://www.thewaytotruth.org/ (http://www.thewaytotruth.org/)
Intercultural Dialogue Platform “an initiative from Turkey to build a peaceful world through interfaith cooperation.”
http://www.cul-dialogue.org (http://www.cul-dialogue.org/)
Journalist and Writers Foundation Related to FG but under a different name, so the purpose is the same in advancing his activities.
http://www.gyv.org.tr (http://www.gyv.org.tr/)
Abant Platform Organized by FG for writers and journalists. The recently went to The Hague to petition the EU to accept Turkey as a member. They use their voices to affect policy.
http://www.abantplatform.com/ (http://www.abantplatform.com/)
Dialog with Central Asia
http://da.com.tr/ (http://da.com.tr/)
The Intercultural Dialog Platform “steps in the media” To show that love and tolerance bring peace. This forum offers quotations from FG about how the meetings will bring harmony.
http://www.dialogplatform.com (http://www.dialogplatform.com/)
April 29-30. 2005
The International Conference of Islam. University of West Madison “Islam and Dialogue.” Gulen’s speech to the US based conference is included on the site.
http://www.islamconf.org/2005/conference/papers/Other/MFGulens-message-english.pdf (http://www.islamconf.org/2005/conference/papers/Other/MFGulens-message-english.pdf)

Blackwell Synergy Synergy publishes journals and articles devoted to the study of Islam.
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/)
2005
“Bridges for Peace –Turkish Schools Opening to the World". Explains the role of Gulen’s schools around the world. Turkish Schools Pioneering Turkey
http://en.fgulen.com/a.page/press/news/2005/a2122.html (http://en.fgulen.com/a.page/press/news/2005/a2122.html)
Turkish immigrants to the U.S. 30,000 including many master and doctoral level students and PhDs. (probably impossible to have a count on the actual number of Gulen’s followers).
Ulker, Turka Cola Turkish businesses in America, among others Houses or dormitories Gulen’s operations to teach his theology
March 21, 2004
“A Small School Run by Turks Takes the Stage” New York Times article
2006, 2007
Iftar dinners with Congressmen to celebrate Ramadan Co-Sponsored by Senators and Representatives and The Rumi Foundation
Since 1991
Charter Schools Unknown number of Turkish schools out of the 2,700 in the U.S. since 1991 with 700,000 in 36 states and the District of Columbia
Only a few examples: Arkansas’s Maumelle's Academics Plus fired the non-Muslim staff and teachers for some grades; Fulton Science Academy in Alpharetta, Georgia; Friendship Edison Public Charter School, Champaign Campus, Washington D.C, pairs with Turkish schools in Istanbul and the principle received an expense paid trip to Istanbul; Turkey-Run Elementary School in Marshall, Indiana; Charter schools are supported in part by taxes but have no accountability except to their own board
Hollywood Icons Chevy-Chase used to market Turco-Cola, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt attended to Iftar at Capitol Hill in DC, following the pattern in Turkey to use celebrities to promote their agenda
You Tube via
Video Arsivi
http://klip.wordpress.com/category/fetullah-gulen/ (http://klip.wordpress.com/category/fetullah-gulen/)
Mary Project
Dinners in homes to attract candidates for Islam with the lure that Mary is mentioned in the Qur’an numerous times and thus Gulen’s followers have a commonality with Catholics. Posted by Rastgo at 10:31 PM (http://seeking-truths.blogspot.fr/2008/08/rise-of-new-ottoman-empire-trap-of.html)


Full series of articles: http://seeking-truths.blogspot.fr/

[Maia Gabrial]

The only thing the Turkish military did wrong was quit half way through it. Now they'll suffer the consequences.

On VT, it was said that Erdogan staged it to get rid of more opposition. That sounds believable for the madman....

[Cidersomerset]

Usual rhetoric by victors and fear to justify the round ups.....

Turkey coup attempt: Detentions 'tip of the iceberg' - BBC News

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Published on 22 Jul 2016

Turkey's deputy prime minister has described as "the tip of the iceberg"
the infiltration of state institutions by the group the government blames
for last Friday's failed coup.Nurettin Canikli told the BBC that the number
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The Turkish Coup In Context: Redrawing The Map Of The CIA Drug Trade

By David on 23 July 2016 GMT War and Terror


ACTIVIST POST.....


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By Rusticus

It’s been four short days since the July 15, 2016 coup d’état (color revolution?) attempt in Turkey,
and already, the open-source research community is well underway in digesting what’s just occurred.
President Recep Erdogan was quick to place the blame at the feet of his long-time political opponent
(and likely CIA asset), a multi-billionaire “refugee” hiding out in the woods of western Pennsylvania –
cleric Fethullah Gülen. Gülen, in turn, pointed the finger back at Erdogan, suggesting that the coup
was staged for the express intent of centralizing authority.

However, the Erdogan v. Gülen feud isn’t what this article is about; at least not directly. There’s a lot
for the curious Reader to sink their teeth into there – from the ever-mysterious Gülen’s activities running
the largest chain of Charter Schools in America (funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
and currently under investigation by the FBI for money laundering) to Recep Erdogan’s love affair with
NATO intelligence just a few years prior. Inquiring minds will quickly concede that this entire Turkish
affair is (and has long been) a proverbial rat’s nest of Intelligencia and regime change.


‘Wherever the rats are scurrying, one’s likely to find some cheese close by – and the opium flows from
Afghanistan bound for the Western world provide plenty of it. Buried among the headlines of the day
was a story regarding Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base losing power during the attempted coup. When the lights
came back on and the dust settled, Incirlik’s NATO-led “anti-Daesh” operations were given the continued
green light, though the base’s Turkish commander remains in custody.

While many have been focused on the concerning amount of American nuclear warheads residing in Incirlik,
its position as the drop-shipper of refined Afghan heroin bound for Western markets is equally pertinent. A
politically uncertain climate in Turkey (to say the least) coupled with the general chaos of the region calls the
future of NATO’s longstanding Incirlik drug-running operation into question – and that’s the finest wheel of
Dutch Gouda the CIA’s had its mitts on since Iran-Contra.’

Read more: The Turkish Coup In Context: Redrawing The Map Of The CIA Drug Trade


http://www.activistpost.com/2016/07/the-turkish-coup-in-context-redrawing-the-map-of-the-cia-drug-trade.html

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Erdogan pledges to rid institutions of ‘separatist cancer’ after coup attempt

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Turkey extends detention without charge to 30 days

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has extended the period in which
suspects can be detained without charge to 30 days, an official statement says.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36874145

[Hervé]

The war on the CIA-funded Gulen "schools," "education (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89230-When-Vested-Interests-Take-Education-over...)" and NGOs fronts:

Erdogan shuts down 1,000+ private schools, 1,200+ charities, 15 universities (https://www.rt.com/news/352867-erdogan-closes-schools-emergency/)

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Turkey’s purge of Gulen supporters continued on Saturday with the closure of hundreds of private schools, charities and other institutions suspects of links with the US-based cleric. Ankara declared a state of emergency after a failed military coup.

Follow RT’s LIVE UPDATES on #TurkeyPurge: Post-coup crackdown (https://www.rt.com/news/352247-turkey-coup-crackdown-erdogan/)

The decree issued by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is his first since the state of emergency was declared on Wednesday. He has ordered the closure of 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35 medical institutions, state news agency Anadolu reported on Saturday.

The organizations slated to be shut down are suspected of links with US-based Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan, who turned into his fierce opponent. The Turkish government accused Gulen of having a hand behind the last week’s coup attempt as well as earlier attacks on it.

In the wake of the weekend violence, which claimed at least 246 lives, Ankara launched a massive purge of suspected Gulen supporters among the military, police, judges, municipal officials and other branches of the government.

Another such measure ordered by Erdogan on Saturday allows for longer detention of people without charge.

The three-month state of emergency declared on Wednesday gives the Turkish executive authority to pass laws without parliament’s support and limit rights and freedoms as they deem necessary.

Turkey’s foreign allies, the US and the EU, reacted nervously to the crackdown. The EU threatened to suspend accession talks with Ankara, if Erdogan delivered on his threat to lift a moratorium on capital punishment. The US said Turkey should provide convincing proof of Gulen’s guilt, if it wanted the cleric to be extradited. Gulen, a long-time resident of the US, has denied masterminding the coup.

[Hervé]

Emigre Super Bloc: The Failed Turkish Coup – An Exploded View (http://thesaker.is/emigre-super-bloc-the-failed-turkish-coup-an-exploded-view/)

by GH Eliason July 21, 2016


Is Fethullah Gulen the feeble, kindly imam that mainstream media is making him out to be? Hardly. What this article will show is that Gulen is instead a career ultra-nationalist bent on carving up the Middle East and Asia. Gulen is on a mission to destroy Russia and China by cutting out territory that contains Turkic peoples from both nations.

Important to understand is Gulen is at work creating a Turkic Islamic World Order inside the countries his schools, people, and businesses reside in.

How did Fethullah Gulen become so powerful in Turkey? In brief I’ll describe his rise for what it is; Erdogan’s self-inflicted wound, that without his own best effort and direct early support could never have happened. It will also show why Erdogan’s purges are going so deep and broad inside all of Turkey’s power structures. What do his people consider Gulen? He is a prophet. -Fethullah Gülen’s Grand Ambition Turkey’s Islamist Danger (http://www.meforum.org/2045/fethullah-gulens-grand-ambition) by Rachel Sharon-Krespin Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009, pp. 55-66

This is a step down from being God. With a whisper, a prophet releases the Word of God to creative or destructive purpose. To his people, this is Fethullah Gulen.

Ankara has accused Gulen of setting up a counter government. I’ll show the proofs that within the United States, Gulen has in fact set up a political organization that is only a step down from a full blown government in exile. It is complete with diplomatic ties to other like minded countries.

The US Government has denied involvement in the coup attempt. In fact it offered Erdogan moral support. This information leads to the conclusion that there was no direct involvement. Instead, rogue and/or ignorant elements of government have been working with Fethullah Gulen facilitating this coup attempt.

Why would thousands of hyphenated-Americans support Fethullah Gulen against the interests of their own country? Is this legal? The Turkish coup is the hammer that makes this article series on the dangers presented by dual loyal citizens drive home. When hyphenated-American emigres can control elections, foreign policy, and drive domestic policy against the interests of the rest of the country including starting wars; maybe its time to rethink how our political landscape actually works.

Lastly, it wouldn’t be any fun without tying this ultra-nationalist to Stepan Bandera’s OUNb. This tie by itself negates any indication of moderation inside his movement. In fact, he directly supports groups that have murdered thousands of people in the name of nationalism.

Turkey itself is a Promethean country. In the last few segments of this article, Prometheanism is described as nationalist political governments set up as an insulator against the Soviet Union, followed by the Russian Federation and China. It’s overflow back into the Russian Federation (at the time Soviet Union) and China was to cause both countries destruction through the spread of nationalism.
“Prometheism or Prometheanism (Polish: “Prometeizm”) was a political project initiated by Poland’s Józef Piłsudski. Its aim was to weaken the Russian Empire and its successor states, including the Soviet Union, by supporting nationalist independence movements among the major non-Russian peoples that lived within the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union.” Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheism)
Gulen is the leader of what is known as Pan Turkism. The goal is to unite all the Turkic people in Asia. While sounding lofty, the goal is to unite them under a Turkish ultra-nationalist auspice. This includes uniting Turkish people in the Russian Federation, China, Iran, and Afghanistan. For Gulen, this would bring prestige, honor, and a formidable army under his group’s control.

In today’s color revolution world, carrying this out isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds. Stratfor’s George Friedman thinks these are realistic goals. “In the Islamic world, Turkey would be at the top, as it has done for the last 500 years.” The Next 100 Years- Friedman

In 1997 Gulen stated “Turkey […] today encompasses 60 million. Together with the Turks in Central Asia it is 120-130 million. If it manages to break down the Chinese wall and to unite with the Turks there, it will be 300 million.“

“French-Turkish scholar Bayram Balci has written that the Gulen movement serves to accomplish 3 intellectual goals: The Turkification of Islam, the Islamization of the Turkish nationalist ideology, and the Islamization of modernity…He’s not talking about a califate or a sharia state. He wants a new world Islamic order.” – The Brotherhood: America’s Next Great Enemy By Erick Stakelbeck

“…the US government has been trying to use the same Islamist policy that Adolf Hitler pursued. If a unified state can be developed it can be used as a proxy to attack Russia and China. If jihadis and the proper political structure can be married in an Islamic state, it can also be controlled through emigre populations and direct support. How many soldiers will this force multiplier add?

The other side to it is within an Islamic State, political education and indoctrination can be carried out the same way as in Ukraine using the universities and children groups. This can be spilled across the borders into the Russia Federation and Muslim Chinese provinces…

…The Arab spring was a failed attempt to marry jihadis to the supported political end which is the Muslim Brotherhood. The disaster called Libya armed and trained what would later become IGIL in Syria. The mistake Clinton made was thinking that Al Qaeda Libya wanted anything more than weapons.”-Emigre Super Bloc – Clinton’s Jihadis | Will the Super Delegates Vote YES to More Terrorism? (http://thesaker.is/emigre-super-bloc-clintons-jihadis-will-the-super-delegates-vote-yes-to-more-terrorism/) GH Eliason

Understood this way, the US military bases that are starting to form a ring around Russia are as meaningless as the troops stationed between the Koreas. The only value is the canary in the coal mine or early warning. They have little attack value against modern militaries sitting on their own borders. The bases serve as a deterrent to Russian influence inside those countries until the country itself is brought under the Promethean auspice of ultra-nationalism.

Once the country has a nationalist government set up, it’s under the dual loyalty system described above. Instead of 50 military targets with a limited amount of personnel, it would be 50 countries with all their resources. In peacetime, the Prometheans pour their ideologies over the border to create new color revolutions and insurgency. That’s why Pan-Turkism is important to Gulen.


[I]“You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers … until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this. If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in] Syria … like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt. The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it … You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey … Until that time, any step taken would be too early—like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside. The work to be done is [in] confronting the world. Now, I have expressed my feelings and thoughts to you all—in confidence … trusting your loyalty and secrecy. I know that when you leave here—[just] as you discard your empty juice boxes, you must discard the thoughts and the feelings that I expressed here.

-Secret Fethullah Gülen Sermon1990 broadcast on Turkish television As you’ll see from the following Erdogan helped build this monstrosity in Turkey by taking off the separation of religion and government safeguards that were in place. This will also show why Erdogan is arresting so many people across the Turkish power structure.
“Over the first five years of his rule, Erdoğan replaced thousands of judges and prosecutors with AKP appointees. Now that the president is Islamist, it is unlikely that he would veto the appointment of Islamists to the bench, as did his predecessor Ahmet Necdet Sezer… The AKP government has also aided the Gülen movement with its reorientation of the judiciary…

…Adil Serdar Saçan, former director of the organized crimes unit within the Istanbul Directorate of Security, confirmed these statements in reports he prepared on the Fethullahist organization within the security apparatus. In a 2006 interview, he said, Fethullahists began organizing inside the security apparatus in the 1970s. In police academies, students were being taken to ışıkevi by class commissioners. One of those commissioners is now the director of intelligence at the Turkish Directorate of Security. During my time at the [police] academy, those in the directorate who did not have ties to the [Gülen] organization were all pensioned off or fired in 2002 when the AKP came to power. …They promoted only those officers whose files were tainted with allegations that they were engaged in reactionary Islamist activities. … Belonging to a certain cemaat(Gulen community) has become a prerequisite for advancement in the force. At present, over 80 percent of the officers at supervisory level in the general security organization are members of the [Gülen] cemaat…The Fethullahist military officers were once our students, who we financially supported, educated, and assisted. When these grateful children graduated and reached influential positions, they put themselves and their positions at the service of Fethullah Gülen … [Gülen] directs and instructs, and, through them, maintains power within the state … When Gülen’s students graduate from the police or military academies—as do the new doctors and lawyers—they present their first salaries to Fethullah Gülen as a gesture of their gratitude” -Fethullah Gülen’s Grand Ambition Turkey’s Islamist Danger (http://www.meforum.org/2045/fethullah-gulens-grand-ambition) by Rachel Sharon-Krespin Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009, pp. 55-66
When asked about the current coup, Gulen denies involvement and goes so far as to say that involvement would be an act of treason. Is this credible?

In May 1971, Gulen was arrested in an attempted coup aimed at turning Turkey into an Islamist state. A warrant was issued against him in the 1980 coup attempt. His friend Prime Minister Ozal later had the warrant canceled. -CAPITAL AND CAPITALISTS IN TURKEY Gülen sect: Reached for the state,got capital instead (https://www.academia.edu/19497465/Gu_len_sect_Reached_for_the_state_got_capital_instead) Ayse Cavar

On American Soil
“Bayram Balcı explained, “The aim of the cemaat(community) is to educate and influence future national elites, who will speak English and Turkish and who will one day prove their good intentions towards Fethullahists and towards Turkey.” Several countries in the region have taken steps against Gülen’s educational institutions because of such suspicions.”-Fethullah Gülen’s Grand Ambition Turkey’s Islamist Danger (http://www.meforum.org/2045/fethullah-gulens-grand-ambition) by Rachel Sharon-Krespin Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009, pp. 55-66

Turkic-Americans today make up a tiny voting bloc with a population of only 350,000. Gulen’s presence has made up for this by creating thousands of Turkic-American culture groups and Turkic-American diaspora umbrella groups have a combined group portfolio worth around $35 billion. Gulen has a net worth reported to around $3 billion. In just Texas, there are over 1200 business support him and his work.

“The organization lacks any official hierarchy or structure, but followers have built up a network of think tanks, schools, and publications in locations around the world—including in Texas (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/education/07charter.html). The TUSKON business confederation (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1b1d4ea0-ab8e-11e3-8cae-00144feab7de.html#axzz4EVxB3h3Y), which has 120,000 businesses under its umbrella, has strong ties to the Gülen movement and provides financial support…“It is clear they want influence and power,” a senior U.S. official told the New York (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/world/middleeast/turkey-feels-sway-of-fethullah-gulen-a-reclusive-cleric.html)Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/world/middleeast/turkey-feels-sway-of-fethullah-gulen-a-reclusive-cleric.html) in 2012. “We are concerned there is a hidden agenda to challenge secular Turkey and guide the country in a more Islamic direction.” Time (http://time.com/4408855/turkey-coup-fethullah-gulen-gulenist-movement/) Justin Worland July 15, 2016

One of his groups, the Turkic-American Alliance (http://turkicamericanalliance.org/) claims to be the umbrella that represents all Turkic emigre concerns to US government. This umbrella is associated with other Gulen groups that make close to the same claim and others that represent Turkish emigres regionally.

The obvious danger to this diplomatically is that the US has strong relations with the country Gulen’s group is seeking to overthrow. Gulen has made numerous and major inroads through lobbying, campaign support, and Congressional junkets to Turkey. For the House and the Senate, Turkey is now only behind Israel as the #1 tourist stop for Congress.

“He then started a confusing net of subsidiary groups by secretly funding more than 200 trips to Turkey for members of the United States Congress which went as far back as 2008.

An extensive investigation by the USA Today newspaper has found that these trips have been “repeatedly violating House rules and possibly federal law.”

The report lists numerous members of Congress— most Republicans and many coming from southern states, taking advantage of the free trips to Turkey. The influential Washington DC-based news outlet Roll Call also revealed “hidden cash” that funded numerous Congressional delegations (http://blogs.rollcall.com/hill-blotter/hidden-cash-financed-lawmakers-turkey-trips/) to Turkey, noting that the dozens of privately-sponsored trips to Turkey during the 113th Congress put the nation second only to Israel as the biggest foreign destination for U.S. elected officials.” Major Islamic Organization Bribes Members Of U.S. Congress In Order To Get American Congressmen To Revive Islamic Empire Walid Shoebat

Has it paid off? The following link opens to a letter from 6 US Senators to John Kerry (https://www.indymedia.org.uk/images/2016/02/524420.jpg). Gulen’s people lobbied the Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee to chastise Erdogan and called him an Islamist compared to Gulen’s apparent moderation. They go further by saying the State Department needs to get behind Gulen’s efforts and that he had the support of the world community.

THIS is very close to the language that would be used speaking about a government in exile.

When you look through their website they say they work with the other emigre groups in the US. They celebrate holidays with embassies of other countries in a way that adds to their clout in the US. The Turkic-American Alliance has Congressional dinners (http://turkicamericanalliance.org/3rd-annual-congressional-ramadan-dinner/).

When you consider that this group has been banned for their anti-democratic activities in many countries they sought to operate in, admittedly use subterfuge to make inroads to power-structures, and have been an enemy of state in their own country for a while now for ultra-nationalist Islamic activity!!???

Another Gulen group claiming representative authority over Turkic-Americans is the Turkish American Council. This group is so heavily invested in Congressional elections that it has developed its own caucus.

Every one of these members are supported by and supporting an enemy of US (http://www.tc-america.org/in-congress/caucus.htm) NATO ally Turkey.

Gulen has been following the same method of operations in the US as he has done elsewhere. Because he can’t teach radical Islamic nationalism, he instead focuses on creating relationships with up and coming “elites” that will favor his movement.

“Fethullah Gulen is being described as a moderate and an educator setting up schools around the world. “The Gülen-inspired schools in the Balkans have been instrumental in reifying a Turkish nationalist Islam, while in the United States they follow an entirely secular and notably science and math-heavy curriculum.” –Fethullah Gülen (http://rlp.hds.harvard.edu/faq/fethullah-g%C3%BClen) Harvard Divinity School Religious Literacy Project (http://rlp.hds.harvard.edu/faq/fethullah-g%C3%BClen)

Why would Turkic-Americans follow him?

For many, they didn’t know. For some, they are sold on his nationalism. It’s easy to be a long distance nationalist and a lot easier to be a rabid one. The one thing that is clear is that the latter resent democracy and never have an issue sending US troops into harms way or putting unwary Americans in harms way.
On the other hand, long-distance processes tend to involve political actors who are acting from a safe distance and who, therefore, do not put their safety at risk, while being eager to promote risky strategies in their homeland. In short, expatriates tend often to be more radical than ‘natives’ when they engage in…[t]he participant rarely pays taxes in the country in which he does his politics; he is not answerable to its judicial system; he probably does not cast even an absentee ballot in its elections because he is a citizen in a different place; he need not fear prison, torture or death, nor need his immediate family. But, well and safely positioned in the First World, he can send money and guns, circulate propaganda, and build intercontinental computer information circuits, all of which can have incalculable consequences in the zones of their ultimate destinations…

…There is an extensive international relations literature on the role of diasporas as active actors in the shaping of US foreign policy (Ambrosio 2002; Shain 2007; Shain and Aryasinha 2006). Within business studies and related disciplines, there is also a separate literature on the powerful role of lobbies in the USA, particularly those associated with the corporate and multinational industry*and how this represents a grave threat to democracy (Butts 2003; Luger 2000). Ethnic lobbies are thus players in a complex multi-level game.‘homeland politics’ (Connor 1986; Kaiser 2004).- Irresponsible Radicalisation: Diasporas,Globalisation and Long-Distance Nationalism in the Digital Age Daniele Conversi
Fethullah Gulen, Ultra-nationalist Credentials, and Ties to the OUNb
Gulen and his organization continually claim to be peaceful. In fact, it’s how they get around in western countries. But are they? Gulen has strong ties to the Turkish Grey Wolves. This Pan-Turkic ultra-nationalist group is responsible for the murder of thousands inside Turkey. They fought in Chechnya, the Balkans, and Afghanistan. The founder of the Grey Wolves, Alparslan Turkes wanted to take Turkey into WWII on the side of Nazi Germany.

Who would a man like Alparslan Turkes look up to? This is a letter from Turkes to Gulen.


“ (http://www.haber7.com/yazarlar/erkam-tufan-aytav/584125-turkesin-fethullah-gulene-yazdigi-mektup)Very Reverend Gülen Hazrat, (http://www.haber7.com/yazarlar/erkam-tufan-aytav/584125-turkesin-fethullah-gulene-yazdigi-mektup)
Lord Grace,Zadar-i to scholars, our nation and ensures that you have reached a very useful service life.knowledge that you have raised, your suggestion has initiated a broad educational campaign which need wisdom and virtue of our nation with expert staff and you have to ensure the continued success. Society of spiritual awakening, which is a fundamental requirement for development in all areas and you have pioneered the rise.

Peace, tolerance and brotherhood based on a return to self, but you have the space age began to rise. From Canada to Yakutia, schools and universities opened up everywhere from Mongolia to the United States of our national culture and national shows that our moral values tend to all of humanity. You virtuous life, your character showing no material benefit to you against greed has aroused great confidence in our people. Your efforts targeting the sake of Allah alone is re-conquering the old world we have lost our nature since several centuries.

To clean the shaded asked to name your worship speaks pretext of Susurluk affair was so sad. But as you know, our nation, and the world knows you. It is not possible to do something malicious.

Thank you very much for your gentle thank you letter. It is our duty to tell the truth. The mentioned statement, the right is merely to explain a small extent in public.

Right from the Almighty to grant you good health and long life and so I entreat you have started the completion of developments.

Ordinary hey, I offer love and respect.

Alparslan Turkes Fethullah Gulen, the OUNb, and the US Presidential Elections
In 1991, Gulen donated 3.5 billion Turkish Lira to Alparslan Turkes ultra-nationalist group the Grey Wolves and financed their violence. This is only one instance of support. Black sheep in a far-right zoo? Fethullah Gülen’s strategy of ‘non-violence’ by Laura Lotte Laloire

In 1963 Gulen started the Anti-Communist League of Turkey or (TKMD) and became part of Yaroslav Stetsko’s World Anti-Communist League(WACL). WACL’s two-pronged mission was to set up nationalist states and destroy the Soviet Union (Russia) and China. Every group subordinated themselves and coordinated with Stetsko and Marv Liebman, an American Nazi who worked closely with Stetsko, Bandera, and the forming Neo-cons in Washington. In 1984 Alparslan Turkes lieutenant Ruzy Nazar represented Turkey at the WACL conference in Dallas, TX. -CAPITAL AND CAPITALISTS IN TURKEY Gülen sect: Reached for the state,got capital instead (https://www.academia.edu/19497465/Gu_len_sect_Reached_for_the_state_got_capital_instead) Ayse Cavar

Currently, Gulen is still working with the ultra-nationalist OUNb through its UCCA groups and on think tanks. Is this the sweet peaceful imam you were told about?

Who is it that Gulen’s very wealthy groups support in this 2016 presidential election?

In the 1990’s Gulen befriended the Clintons. This seems to have paid off for both of them.

“Last year The Daily Caller reported (http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/22/followers-of-a-mysterious-turkish-islamic-cleric-have-donated-heavily-to-hillarys-campaign-and-family-charity/) that numerous Gulen followers have donated to Clinton’s various political campaigns and to her family charity. One Gulen movement leader, Recep Ozkan, donated between $500,000 and $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.

As senator from New York, Clinton gave a keynote address at the Turkish Cultural Center’s annual banquet.”- Turkey Failed Coup: Ties Emerge Between Hilary Clinton And Mysterious Islamic Cleric Fethullah Gulen (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/Last%20year%C2%A0The%20Daily%20Caller%C2%A0reported%C2%A0that%20numerous%20Gulen%20followers%20have% 20donated%20to%20Clinton%E2%80%99s%20various%20political%20campaigns%C2%A0and%20to%20her%20family%20 charity.%20One%20Gulen%20movement%20leader,%20Recep%20Ozkan,%20donated%20between%20$500,000%20and%20 $1%20million%20to%20the%20Clinton%20Foundation.As%20senator%20from%20New%20York,%20Clinton%20gave%20 a%20keynote%20address%20at%20the%20Turkish%20Cultural%20Center%E2%80%99s%20annual%20banquet.-%20Turkey%20Failed%20Coup:%20Ties%20Emerge%20Between%20Hilary%20Clinton%20And%20Mysterious%20Islamic %20Cleric%20Fethullah%20Gulenhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/turkey-failed-coup-ties-emerge-between-hilary-clinton-and-mysterious-islamic-cleric-fethullah-gulen/5536349) Chuck Ross Global Research

Are we comfortable with presidential candidates taking large sums of money from ultra-nationalists that support terrorism? Can we allow emigres to violate our laws and steal our elections?

It’s time to decide.

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Turkey failed coup: Presidential guard to be disbanded
23 July 2016

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Turkey's elite presidential guard is to be disbanded after nearly
300 of its members were detained following last week's failed coup.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told a TV channel that there was
"no need" for the regiment.

Earlier, Turkey detained a nephew of US-based cleric Fethullah
Gulen who, it says, was behind the uprising. He strongly denies the claim

Read more....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36877067

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Turkish Protesters Are Spray Painting '8.8.8.8' and '8.8.4.4.'
On Walls — Here's What It Means

By David on 24 July 2016 GMT Activism


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‘As hard as the Turkish government might try, shutting down Twitter
isn’t as easy as it seems. At 11:30 p.m. Thursday the Turkish government
officially blocked the country’s 33 million Internet users from Twitter,
but clever, tech-savvy Turks are sharing a simple and effective method
to help fellow citizens bypass the ban — and they’re sharing it everywhere.

Just hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “root out”
Twitter, graffiti has been popping up around Istanbul with two IP addresses
anyone can use to circumvent the government’s ban. The two numbers —
8.8.8.8. and 8.8.4.4. — refer to Google’s Public DNS, which can be easily
utilized to maintain access to Twitter.’

Read more: Turkish Protesters Are Spray Painting ‘8.8.8.8’ and ‘8.8.4.4.’
On Walls — Here’s What It Means

https://mic.com/articles/85987/turkish-protesters-are-spray-painting-8-8-8-8-and-8-8-4-4-on-walls-here-s-what-it-means#.pWPFTj01u

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How Secure are America's Nuclear Weapons in Europe?

By David on 24 July 2016 GMT War and Terror



‘After the recent military coup attempt in Turkey, multiple organizations have
raised appropriate concerns about the 50 U.S. nuclear bombs stored at a
Turkish Air Base less than 70 miles away from the Syrian border. And while
this new interest is warranted, the security vulnerabilities of the 131 American
B61 nuclear bombs currently deployed at military bases in Belgium, Italy,
Germany, and the Netherlands have been a growing concern for almost a decade.

These nuclear bombs are relics of Cold War perceptions of reassurance, and are
now more of a liability than a legitimate international security strategy. Given
how uncertain the security situation is in Europe, particularly in Belgium and
Turkey, it’s time to consider just how useful, or not, these weapons actually are.’

Read more: How Secure are America’s Nuclear Weapons in Europe?

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/how-secure-are-americas-nuclear-weapons-europe-17098?page=show

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Another good cross talk discussion on the geo political situation....

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Published on 21 Jul 2016

Post-coup attempt realities: With Turkish President Erdogan firmly in control,
he has demanded a cleansing of the military and many social institutions. What
kind of Turkey does he intend to create? And will Turkey’s foreign policy change?
CrossTalking with Martin Jay, Yunus Soner, and Daniel Faraci.



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Erdogan shuts down 1,000+ private schools, 1,200+ charities, 15 universities

By David on 24 July 2016 GMT


RT NEWS....

Erdogan shuts down 1,000+ private schools, 1,200+ charities, 15 universities

Published time: 23 Jul, 2016 08:58
Edited time: 23 Jul, 2016 16:32

‘Turkey’s purge of Gulen supporters continued on Saturday with the closure of hundreds
of private schools, charities and other institutions suspects of links with the US-based
cleric. Ankara declared a state of emergency after a failed military coup.

The decree issued by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is his first since the state of
emergency was declared on Wednesday. He has ordered the closure of 1,043 private
schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35
medical institutions, state news agency Anadolu reported on Saturday.’

Read more: Erdogan shuts down 1,000+ private schools, 1,200+ charities, 15 universities

https://www.rt.com/news/352867-erdogan-closes-schools-emergency/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome


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Turkey Coup’s Social Fallout: Secular Population in Danger?

By David on 24 July 2016 GMT


GLOBAL RESEARCH...

Turkey Coup’s Social Fallout: Secular Population in Danger?

By Ghada Chehade

Global Research, July 23, 2016

‘As a “secular Muslim” (I use that term very loosely, as more of a cultural description
because I do not practice or support organized religion) I am rather perplexed by the
social fallout of the failed military coup in Turkey.

While it remains to be proven, Erdogan has officially blamed the coup attempt on the
US-backed, self-exiled hard-line Islamist Fethullah Gulen. Gulen is a former political
ally of Erdogan and is just as radical—if not more so—an Islamist as Erdogan and his
AKP party. If Gulen (with help from the US) was indeed behind the coup attempt, then
it is a case of Islamist vs. Islamist and not secular factions within the state trying to
take the country back from Erdogan and the Islamists (as many initially thought).’

Read more: Turkey Coup’s Social Fallout: Secular Population in Danger?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/turkey-coups-social-fallout-secular-population-in-danger/5537463

[Hervé]

From a practical standpoint, what Erdogan is trying to achieve is the purge of most of the Gulen-educated military, judicial, legislative and administrative government personnel... Herculean task!

... that's akin to some president in the United States intending to rid the system of all the Masonic-educated members holding position of power in the US military, justice, legislative, financial and administrative systems... and look at what happened to one of those presidents (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?27226-The-Vile-Truth-of-the-JFK-Assassination) and his family who decided to tackle the CIA in such a way; when he/they ran into the Skull & Bones confrerie (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?26195-POLICE-STATE-How-it-came-about-in-the-US-of-A)...

Education (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89230-When-Vested-Interests-Take-Education-over...)... when special, vested interests take it over... I do recommend listening very carefully to what Lindsey Williams discloses in this video regarding the "education" of "elite" members:


Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzzHsQ34zko


The Herculean task (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91903-Military-coup-in-Turkey-coup-attempt-by-part-of-army-fizzled&p=1083643&viewfull=1#post1083643):


NY Masonic Control "In Plain Sight" (http://henrymakow.com/2016/07/NY-Masonic-control.html)

By Richard W. Keene
(henrymakow.com) July 24, 2016



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The assassination of William Morgan, engraved by artist Pierre Méjanel.


A satanic cult, Freemasonry, controls Western society yet no one dares speak of it. Richard Kaine observes that after a national scandal 200 years ago, Masonic control is evident locally.

In 1826, a signal event occurred in Western New York that shook the nation and the world. William Morgan, a Freemason, printer, and family man living in Batavia was kidnapped and presumably murdered by his fellow Masons.

In the firestorm that followed, the United States Anti-Masonic Political Party was formed. The Anti-Masonic Party opposed the election of Freemason and Democratic party presidential candidate Andrew Jackson in 1828.

As news of the abduction and murder of Morgan spread, many New York Freemasons renounced lodge memberships, published secret lodge ceremonies, and joined with Anti-Masons in exposing Masonry as a corrupting and controlling influence in government (1, 2).

To this day, Masons proclaim their innocence in Morgan's disappearance, but some facts are indisputable. In 1827, Mason and New York Governor at the time, Dewitt Clinton, removed fellow Mason and Niagara County Sheriff, Eli Bruce, from office for suspicion in the abduction of Morgan and for obstructing justice by running interference to protect his fellow conspirators. Eli Bruce was tried and convicted in Morgan's disappearance a year later.

Anti-Masons at the time asserted that seven counties in Western New York had sheriffs that were high Masons at or above the Royal Arch degree. Most judges and individuals serving on petit juries were Masons. Grand juries were often comprised of Masons because these juries were appointed by the local sheriff who was a Mason.

Anti-Masons complained that Masons illicitly operated behind the scenes of government and, in doing so, acted as a secret unelected influence that violated laws, sacredness of private property, personal liberty, human life, and due process.

NEW YORK MASONRY TODAY
Despite the furor of the Morgan Affair long ago, Freemasonry presently exhibits an open presence in New York that suggests it exerts as much influence in government as it did two hundred years ago. Masonic lodges are sometimes built adjacent to, or as integral part of government buildings, and Masonic symbols appear in plain sight on major public structures.

In the Village of Middleport, for example, the local lodge is situated on Main Street where it sits immediately adjacent to the Police Department. The Police Department, in turn, is right next to Village Administrative offices, meaning that the Police department shares a wall with Village Administration on one side and the lodge on the other.

A number of local residents have privately complained about abuse of authority and corruption within the Middleport police department. The head of the lodge occupies a seat on the Middleport planning board.


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In the nearby Town of Yates, the lodge is located within the municipal building itself. Local residents joke that after public meetings are held on the first floor of the Town Hall, Masons then adjourn upstairs where all consequential government decisions are made.


Sometimes Masonic symbols openly appear on public structures. For example, at the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, a compass and square symbol is 'hidden in plain sight' immediately over the security entrance through which all passengers must pass.


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This rendition of the ubiquitous symbol shows a compass set at thirty three degrees and the square set at it's usual ninety degrees. What this particular rendition of the compass and square symbolizes might be worthwhile to explore in a separate narrative.


Despite the obvious conjunction of Masonic symbols and lodges with government buildings, public discussion of Masonry falls into the category of verboten conversation. Whenever I've broached the subject with local residents, a singular reaction seems to prevail: As soon as the word Mason is spoken, there is a hushing of the voice, slight lowering of the head, eyes darting quickly back and forth to see who's watching, and further conversation on the subject of Masonry terminates.

Endnotes:
(1) Bernard, David. Light on Masonry. Uttica: Anti-Masonic Party, 1829. (https://books.google.com/books/about/Light_on_Masonry.html?id=QlIZAAAAYAAJ) Print.

(2) Proceedings of the United States Anti-Masonic Convention. (https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Proceedings_of_the_United_States_Ant.html?id=HZRJAAAAMAAJ) Philadelphia: P. Trimble: 1830. Print.

- See more at: http://henrymakow.com/2016/07/NY-Masonic-control.html#sthash.mReTBnWG.dpuf

See this thread: Who is Kay Griggs? (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?57036-Who-is-Kay-Griggs)

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Turkish Daily Former NATO commander behind failed coup against Erdogan

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Former NATO commander ‘behind failed coup against Erdogan’ – Turkish daily

By David on 26 July 2016 GMT

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‘The former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, retired US Army General
John F. Campbell, was the mastermind behind the failed military coup in Turkey,
the Yeni Safak daily has reported, citing sources close to investigation.

General John F. Campbell, 59, was “one of the top figures who organized and
managed the soldiers behind the failed coup attempt in Turkey,” the conservative
paper’s English-language edition said on Monday.

The paper is known for its loyal support of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
who was the target of the coup attempt. According to Yeni Safak, Campbell “also
managed more than $2 billion in transactions via UBA Bank in Nigeria by using CIA
links to distribute among the pro-coup military personnel in Turkey.”‘

Read more: Former NATO commander ‘behind failed coup against Erdogan’ – Turkish daily

https://www.rt.com/news/353126-campbell-nato-coup-turkey/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

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Huge fire breaks out near NATO base in Turkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku2_Jy7VS1k

Published on 25 Jul 2016
A massive fire has erupted near a NATO base within the Buca district, Izmir, western
Turkey. Authorities are investigating a possible act of sabotage, local media reports.

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Turkey’s Coup Plotters are Members of NATO’s Rapid Deployable Corps

By David on 26 July 2016 GMT

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Published on 24 Jul 2016

The three most important regiments involved in the Turkey Attempted Coup plot and
implementation have been part (members) of NATO’s Rapid Deployable Corps
(NRDC) since 2003.A group of plotters of the failed Turkish Coup Attempt used a
WhatsApp group to communicate with each other. Based on well-documented I
nformation and established identities gathered from these intercepted communications,
at least three out of the five coupist regiments were (and still are) part of NATO’s Rapid
Deployable Corps. Further, the group used the emblem and slogan used by NATO’s Rapid
Deployable Corps: “Peace at home, peace in the world.”

The intercepted communications also expose the role of the CIA-Gulen network within
Turkey’s police force, and how it readily welcomed and aided the Failed Coup Attempt.

Newsbud news with Sibel Edmonds and Spiro Skouras delves into this significant exposé
and provides viewers with context and analyses missing from western media outlets.

Show notes
http://bit.ly/2abN5bF

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More on the Gulen Movement from William Engdahl...

What is Fethullah Gülen? (http://journal-neo.org/2016/07/25/what-is-fethullah-gulen/)

F. William Engdahl
journal-neo.org
25.07.2016

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Since the failed coup attempt in Turkey of July 15 there has been much speculation in western media that it in fact was all engineered by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to provide him with the pretext to impose emergency rule and to jail any and all opposition to his rule. At this point evidence still suggests that that was not at all the case. Rather, as I wrote at the time when it was clear the coup attempt was collapsing, it was a coup initiated by the CIA acting through their primary asset inside Turkey, the networks of their fugitive Turkish asset Fethullah Gülen. When we examine more closely “what” is Fethullah Gülen he is anything but the grandfatherly image of a 75-year-old soft-spoken Islamic moderate, scholar and Imam. His networks have been called the most dangerous in Germany by Islamic experts and have been banned in several Central Asian countries. Now, too, in Turkey. What’s becoming clear is that the failed coup was in fact a dry-run, a dress rehearsal by Gülen’s controllers in Langley to see how Erdogan would react, in order to recalibrate and prepare for a more serious attempt in the future. Washington was not at all happy with the foreign policy turn of Erdoğan turning to reconcile with Russia and possibly also with Syria’s Assad.

Fethullah Gülen is not a “who” but, rather, it is a “what.” The what is one of the most extensive and elaborate surrogate warfare networks ever created by the United States intelligence community, spanning countless nations including the United States and Germany, as well as the historic Turkic regions of Central Asia from Turkey up to the Uyghur peoples of China’s oil-rich Xinjiang Autonomous Province.

Fethullah Gülen’s Spider Web

The following draws on research for my book, The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy. I begin with a quote from a Gülen speech to his followers when he was still in Turkey in the 1990’s:


“You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers…You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it…You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power…in Turkey…Until that time, any step taken would be too early—like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch.”

—Imam Fetullah Gülen, in a sermon to followers in Turkey

As they were deploying Osama bin Laden’s Arab Mujahideen “holy warriors” into Chechnya and the Caucasus during the 1990s, the CIA, working with a network of self-styled “neo-conservatives” in Washington, began to build their most ambitious political Islam project ever.

It was called the Fethullah Gülen Movement, also known in Turkish as Cemaat, or “The Society.” Their focus was Hizmet, or what they defined as the “duty of Service” to the Islamic community. Curiously enough, the Turkish movement was based out of Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. There, its key figure, the reclusive Fethullah Gülen, was allegedly busy building a global network of Islam schools, businesses, and foundations, all with untraceable funds. His Gülen Movement, or Cemaat, has no main address, no mailbox, no official organizational registration, no central bank account, nothing. His followers never demonstrated for Sharia or Jihad—their operations were all hidden from view.

In 2008, US Government court filings estimated the global value of Gülen’s empire at anywhere between $25 and $50 billion. No one could prove how large as there were no independent audits. In a US Court testimony during the hearing on Gülen’s petition for a special US Green Card permanent residence status, one loyal Cemaat journalist described the nominal extent of Gülen’s empire:

The projects sponsored by Gülen-inspired followers today number in the thousands, span international borders and…include over 2000 schools and seven universities in more than ninety countries in five continents, two modern hospitals, the Zaman newspaper (now in both a Turkish and English edition), a television channel (Samanyolu), a radio channel (Burc FM), CHA (a major Turkish news agency), Aksiyon (a leading weekly news magazine), national and international Gülen conferences, Ramadan interfaith dinners, interfaith dialog trips to Turkey from countries around the globe and the many programs sponsored by the Journalists and Writers Foundation. In addition, the Isik insurance company and Bank Asya, an Islamic bank, are affiliated with the Gülen community.

Bank Asya was listed among the Top 500 Banks in the world by London’s Banker magazine. It had joint-venture banking across Muslim Africa, from Senegal to Mali in a strategic cooperation agreement with the Islamic Development Bank’s Senegal-based Tamweel Africa Holding SA. Zaman, which also owns the English-language Today’s Zaman, is the largest daily paper in Turkey.

By the late 1990s, Gülen’s movement had attracted the alarm and attention of an anti-NATO nationalist wing of the Turkish military and of the Ankara government.

After leading a series of brilliant military campaigns in the 1920s to win the Independence War after World War I, Kemal Ataturk established the modern Turkish state. He launched a series of political, economic, and cultural reforms aimed at transforming the religiously-based Ottoman Caliphate into a modern, secular, and democratic nation-state. He built thousands of new schools, made primary education free and compulsory, and gave women equal civil and political rights, and reduced the burden of taxation on peasants.

Gülen and his movement aim at nothing less than to roll-back the remains of that modern, secular Kemalism in Turkey, and return to the Caliphate of yore. In one of his writings to members, he declared, “With the patience of a spider we lay our net until people get caught in it.”

In 1998, Gülen defected to the US shortly before a treasonous speech he had made to his followers at a private gathering was made public. He had been recorded calling on his supporters to “work patiently and to creep silently into the institutions in order to seize power in the state,” treason by the Ataturk constitution of Turkey.

‘Islamic Opus Dei’

In 1999, Turkish television aired footage of Gülen delivering a sermon to a crowd of followers in which he revealed his aspirations for an Islamist Turkey ruled by Sharia (Islamic law), as well as the specific methods that should be used to attain that goal. In the secret sermon, Gülen said,


“You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers…until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this…You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it…You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey…Until that time, any step taken would be too early—like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside… Now, I have expressed my feelings and thoughts to you all—in confidence…trusting your loyalty and secrecy.”

When Gülen fled to Pennsylvania, Turkish prosecutors demanded a ten-year sentence against him for having “founded an organization that sought to destroy the secular apparatus of state and establish a theocratic state.”

Gülen never left the United States after that, curiously enough, even though the Islamist Erdoğan courts later cleared him in 2006 of all charges. His refusal to return, even after being cleared by a then-friendly Erdoğan Islamist AKP government, heightened the conviction among opponents in Turkey about his close CIA ties.

Gülen was charged in 2000 by the then secular Turkish courts of having committed treason. Claiming diabetes as a medical reason, Fethullah Gülen had managed to escape to a permanent exile in the United States, with the help of some very powerful CIA and State Department friends before his indictment was handed down. Some suspected he was forewarned.

CIA Gives Wolf Sheep’s Clothing

Unlike the CIA’s Mujahideen Jihadists, like Hekmatyar in Afghanistan or Naser Orić in Bosnia, the CIA decided to give Fethullah Gülen a radically different image. No blood-curdling, head-severing, human-heart-eating Jihadist, Fethullah Gülen was presented to the world as a man of “peace, love and brotherhood,” even managing to grab a photo op with Pope John Paul II, which Gülen featured prominently on his website.

Once in the US, the Gülen organization hired one of Washington’s highest-paid Public Relations image experts, George W. Bush’s former campaign director, Karen Hughes, to massage his “moderate” Islam image.

The CIAs Gülen project centered on the creation of a New Ottoman Caliphate, retracing the vast Eurasian domain of the former Ottoman Turkic Caliphates.

When Gülen fled Turkey to avoid prosecution for treason in 1999, he chose the United States. He did so with the help of the CIA. At the time he US Government’s Department of Homeland Security and the US State Department both opposed Gülen’s application for what was called a “preference visa as an alien of extraordinary ability in the field of education.” They presented argument demonstrating that the fifth-grade dropout, Fethullah Gülen, should not be granted a preference visa. They argued that his background,


“…contains overwhelming evidence that plaintiff is not an expert in the field of education, is not an educator, and is certainly not one of a small percentage of experts in the field of education who have risen to the very top of that field. Further, the record contains overwhelming evidence that plaintiff is primarily the leader of a large and influential religious and political movement with immense commercial holdings.”

However, over the objections of the FBI, of the US State Department, and of the US Department of Homeland Security, three former CIA operatives intervened and managed to secure a Green Card and permanent US residency for Gülen. In their court argument opposing the Visa, US State Department attorneys had notably argued, “Because of the large amount of money that Gülen’s movement uses to finance his projects, there are claims that he has secret agreements with Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkic governments. There are suspicions that the CIA is a co-payer in financing these projects (http://rastibini.blogspot.no/2008/06/glen-cia-and-american-deep-state.html).”

The three CIA people supporting Gülen’s Green Card application in 2007 were former US Ambassador to Turkey, Morton Abramowitz, CIA official George Fidas and Graham E. Fuller. (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/04/27/bfp-breaking-news-boston-terror-cias-graham-fuller-nato-cia-operation-gladio-b-caucasus-central-asia/) George Fidas had worked thirty-one years at the CIA dealing, among other things, with the Balkans. Morton Abramowitz, reportedly also with the CIA, if “informally,” had been named US Ambassador to Turkey in 1989 by President George H.W. Bush. Sibel Edmonds, former FBI Turkish translator and “whistleblower,” named Abramowitz, along with Graham E. Fuller, as part of a dark cabal within the US Government that she discovered were using networks out of Turkey to advance a criminal, “deep state” agenda across the Turkic world, from Istanbul into China. The network reportedly included significant involvement in heroin trafficking out of Afghanistan.

On leaving the State Department, Abramowitz served on the board of the US Congress-financed National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and was a cofounder, along with George Soros, of the International Crisis Group. Both the NED and International Crisis Group were implicated in various US “Color Revolutions” since the 1990s collapse of the Soviet Union (http://www.newcastle.edu.au/about-uon/governance-and-leadership/faculties-and-schools).

Graham E. Fuller, the third CIA “friend” of Fethullah Gülen, had played a key role in the CIA’s steering Mujahideen and other political Islamic organizations since the 1980s. He spent 20 years as CIA operations officer in Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Afghanistan and was one of the CIA’s early advocates of using the Muslim Brotherhood and similar Islamist organizations to advance US foreign policy (http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=graham_fuller).

In 1982, Graham Fuller had been appointed the National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia at CIA, responsible for Afghanistan, where he had served as CIA Station Chief, for Central Asia, and for Turkey. In 1986 Fuller became Vice-Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council, with overall responsibility for national level strategic forecasting.

Fuller, author of The Future of Political Islam, was also the key CIA figure to convince the Reagan Administration to tip the balance in the eight-year long Iran-Iraq war by using Israel to illegally channel weapons to Iran in what became the Iran-Contra Affair.

In 1988, as the Afghan Mujahideen war would down, Fuller “retired” from the CIA with rank as Deputy Director of the CIA’s National Council on Intelligence, to go over to the RAND Corporation, presumably to avoid embarrassment around his role in the Iran-Contra scandal for then Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush, Fuller’s former boss at CIA.

RAND was a Pentagon- and CIA-linked neoconservative Washington think tank. Indications are that Fuller’s work at RAND was instrumental in developing the CIA strategy for building the Gülen Movement as a geopolitical force to penetrate former Soviet Central Asia. Among his RAND papers, Fuller wrote studies on Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Algeria, the “survivability” of Iraq, and the “New Geopolitics of Central Asia” after the fall of the USSR, where Fethullah Gülen’s cadre were sent to establish Gülen schools and Madrassas.

In 1999, while at RAND, Fuller advocated using Muslim forces to further US interests in Central Asia against both China and Russia. He stated, “The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Russians. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia.” By all evidence, Fuller and his associates intended their man, Fethullah Gülen, to play perhaps the major role, in their operations to “destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia (http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/04/27/bfp-breaking-news-boston-terror-cias-graham-fuller-nato-cia-operation-gladio-b-caucasus-central-asia/).”

CIA career man Graham E. Fuller was a key backer of Fetullah Gülen and architect of the CIA Islam strategy since Afghanistan’s Mujahideen.

In 2008, shortly after he wrote a letter of recommendation to the US Government asking to give Gülen the special US residence visa, Fuller wrote a book titled The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World. At the center of the book was praise for Gülen and his “moderate” Islamic Gülen Movement in Turkey:


“Gülen’s charismatic personality makes him the number one Islamic figure of Turkey. The Gülen Movement has the largest and most powerful infrastructure and financial resources of any movement in the country… The movement has also become international by virtue of its far-flung system of schools…in more than a dozen countries including the Muslim countries of the former Soviet Union, Russia, France and the United States.

CIA and Gülen in Central Asia

During the 1990s Gülen’s global political Islam Cemaat spread across the Caucasus and into the heart of Central Asia all the way to Xinjiang Province in western China, doing precisely what Fuller had called for in his 1999 statement: “destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia.”

Gülen’s organization had been active in that destabilizing with help from the CIA almost the moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, when the nominally Muslim Central Asian former Soviet republics declared their independence from Moscow. Gülen was named by one former FBI authoritative source as “one of the main CIA operation figures in Central Asia and the Caucasus.”

By the mid-1990s, more than seventy-five Gülen schools had spread to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and even to Dagestan and Tatarstan in Russia amid the chaos of the post-Soviet Yeltsin era. In 2011, Osman Nuri Gündeş, former head of Foreign Intelligence for the Turkish MIT, the “Turkish CIA,” and chief intelligence adviser in the mid-1990s to Prime Minister Tansu Çiller, published a book that was only released in Turkish. Gündeş, then 85 and retired revealed that, during the 1990s, the Gülen schools then growing up across Eurasia were providing a base for hundreds of CIA agents under cover of being “native-speaking English teachers.” According to Gündeş, the Gülen movement “sheltered 130 CIA agents” at its schools in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan alone. More revealing, all the American “English teachers” had been issued US Diplomatic passports, hardly standard fare for normal English teachers.

Today Gülen’s spider web of control via infiltration of the Turkish national police, military and judiciary as well as education is being challenged by Erdogan as never before. It remains to be seen if the CIA will be successful in a second coup attempt. If the model of Brazil is any clue, it will likely come after a series of financial attacks on the Lira and the fragile Turkish economy, something already begun by the rating agency S&P.

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook” (http://journal-neo.org/)

Source (http://journal-neo.org/2016/07/25/what-is-fethullah-gulen/)

[shaberon]

One of the RT comments said that Gen. Campbell was a NARCO commander, not NATO. Haven't really tried to figure out who he is, and even if that story was total fluff, the mere fact of it being widely published in Turkey is very telling about local sentiments towards the U. S.

I wonder what kind of "evidence" will be required to consider Gulen's extradition. Seeing that the coup attempt did not have very much of the army on its side, it's hard to imagine anyone could have expected it to succeed. The CIA isn't always effective. Wherever the truth actually lies, this process is starting to do a pretty god job at bringing the American dirt into the light.

[Kindred]

I've come to find SOTT's perspective to be on target and 'ahead of the crowd'...
https://www.sott.net/article/323220-Writing-on-the-wall-for-Erdogan-Align-with-Russia-Iran-and-Syria-or-Turkeys-destruction-awaits
https://www.sott.net/article/323224-Turkish-FM-thanks-Putin-and-Russia-for-their-unconditional-support-during-failed-military-coup

The structure of the current control system is unraveling at a breakneck pace. Hold on for a bit of a 'bumpy ride'... but Have No Fear, and Always remain focused upon the Goal... a Unified, Peaceful and Loving World where All may rise to their utmost potential.

In Unity, Peace and Love

[Hervé]

Getting fine tuned on that very plausible scenario:

Erdogan owes his life to Moscow who prevented US led Coup (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/Erdogan owes his life to Moscow who prevented US led Coup Tuesday, 19 July 2016)

Gorazd Velkovski MINA (http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/29834/52/) Tuesday, 19 July 2016


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The Turkish coup was originally planned for August, when the Greek Government was 'scheduled' to enter a crisis and be itself couped. This way, the entire Balkan would have entered a critical phase, with an end result of installing puppet Governments subservient to the US and a new iron curtain between US controlled Europe and Russia.

There isn't a country that didn't know a coup was underway in Turkey (apparently with the exception of the Turks who were wondering why were there tanks on the Bosphorus bridge). The specific coup-date kept being moved and wasn't known, however CNN's Christiana Amanpour helped everyone narrow it down when she set up base in Ankara and Istanbul just two days before the coup.

The Pentagon has a special relationship with CNN, and typically lets them know when the US is coup-ing a nation, so they can set up camp and report live. CNN's Amanpour has managed to get herself banned from several countries; with good reason - when she shows up in a country, something terrible happens to that country. Turkey was no exception.

Russia, Iran, Syria.... were all aware of a US led coup in Turkey. For this purpose, official Moscow sent one of Putin's advisors to travel to Ankara. The trip was top secret, no one in Tehran, Damascus or even in Moscow was aware of it, only few select in Putin's inner circle.

Aleksandar Dugin (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91903-Military-coup-in-Turkey-coup-attempt-by-part-of-army-fizzled&p=1083730&viewfull=1#post1083730) was the man that was sent to Ankara to warn the Turkish leadership, but also to give them a massive list of people involved in the coup.

Coup Begun a month earlier after some of the plotters were discovered
The Turkish government secretly asked its Courts to issue order for the arrest of 2,000 army, navy and air force officials after it became evident something was brewing. The Courts refused, on top of it, some of the judges involved in the Coup tipped off high ranking generals that the Government was suspicious and hot on their trail.

As a result, not fully prepared for a coup, the coup was started anyways.

Pilots who downed Su24 involved in coup
For months Moscow tracked the data and voice conversations of the Turkish pilots responsible for the downing of the Russian Su24 jet. It discovered the two pilots are American implants and were used to shoot down a Russian jet in order to put a major wedge in the otherwise cozy relationship between Ankara and Moscow. The US used the proven British tactic of "divide and conquer". There were at least several dozen Turkish officers who were American implants at the Incirlik Air Base, the Air Force and the Army as well. All were arrested.

To avoid any sort of suspicion or attract attention, Putin's advisor took an unusal road trip which took Dugin from Moscow to Astana, then to Tehran, Damascus, Nicosia and finally arriving to Ankara where he met with one of Erdogan's most trusted man, the mayor Melih Gokcek.

It's old school KGB, face-to-face meetings work quite well. The Russians have gathered so much data in the past several months, that they knew precisely when, who and how the coup will start.

Initially, Erdogan's inner team were not told of Dugin's arrival in Turkey.

In the interest of better Russo-Turkish relationship and mutual trust, Erdogan was now officially warned. The warning was also psychological because it came "just in time", and was meant to show Erdogan and Turkey who their real friends are.

Hence the face to face meeting. Putin didn't have to do what he did, could have warned them 10 minutes before the coup, or don't warn them at all and simply let everything unfold the way the Americans envisioned.

Turkish Fighter Jets had Erdogan's plane in sight, but...
After waiting for full 24 hrs not saying absolutely anything, the Pentagon and CIA controlled media in the US went full throttle with propaganda when it became obvious their coup had failed. We saw hastily prepared write ups how allegedly Erdogan has simply staged the coup to grab 'more power', adding his presidential plane was in sights of few Turkish F16 yet no one took a shot? First and foremost, the planes that were sent after Erdogan took off from Incirlik Airbase, which is very much controlled by the US-NATO. Second, at no point did the US made an effort to warn the Turkish Government about the coup, yet it has fighter jets taking off from Incirlik, going after Erdogan!

Indeed, Erdogan's plane was followed by several Turkish planes with an intention to shoot him down. Fettulah Gulen in Pennsylvania, a long time CIA asset was getting ready himself to be installed as the new president.

What the 'media' are not telling you is that 7 Russian fighter jets and two S400 rocket systems in Northern Syria were tracking down the Turkish jets issuing them a warning if the Russian radar systems picked up any activity from them they would be promptly shot down. This is why the Turkish jets never fired, they had 'company'.

Ankara's mayor didn't waste a second. Came out on CNN and furiously announced Washington was behind the coup, and yes he had received all the necessary information prior to his announcement. He was the third high ranking Turkish official to accuse the US of leading the coup within a 20 minute span.

Why is Erdogan purging generals, judges... Where did he get this list of people tied with the coup?

Although the Government had suspects on their own, they received a large list from Moscow as well. This is why the US Ambassador in Ankara is practically in hiding and when he isn't he is a stuttering mess. But the most interesting thing here is the fact that several Turkish generals have already admitted of taking part in the Coup, and the real kicker, they have also elaborated on the role the US played. The political statements we heard from Washington have zero credibility, per their usual. There is no explanation how 42 helicopters went missing from Incirlik air base. This is why the Turkish Government encircled the base with 2,500 cops, cut off power to the entire Airbase, de facto telling the US "we know what you're doing".

In the end, the coup plotters and their tanks in the streets were defeated by unarmed Turkish citizens.

//Gorazd Velkovski

[Baby Steps]

The only thing the Turkish military did wrong was quit half way through it. Now they'll suffer the consequences.

On VT, it was said that Erdogan staged it to get rid of more opposition. That sounds believable for the madman....

Current theory:
CIA worked with Erdogan to fake a kemalist coup-set up to fail.
CIA wants Erdogan to cement his position, and is helping by facilitating the removal of secularists within the state-particularly the army.
CIA knows that there has been a huge upswing in anti us sentiment in Turkey-and Erdogan COULD have been weakened by being seen as too close to USA.
This way Erdogan is distancing himself from the us. Or appearing to.

Sorry but I keep thinking about Albert Pike's prediction that the third great war would be between religions-in order to destroy the IDEA of religions.
That confrontation would be Christianity against Islam.
It would be Europe against the Middle East.
This 'great work' is a long one, however. There needs to be a credible Islamic enemy. That means a large territory, unified, with strong military capabilities, and Islamic leadership. There have been setbacks. Egypt went back to secular ('NO MORE BEARDS! they were chanting)
To build this manipulated enemy, you probably need Turkey, Saudi, and Egypt.

But how to unify them and Alienate them from Europe?

Isis are doing the job quite well. If Kurds and Shiites extinguish Isis, brutally, this will not enrage Sunnis in these countries too much, but if Europeans start indiscriminate bombing on civilians in this area, this could anger the Clerics. We are seeing the beginning of this planned process- Terror in Europe leading to weak leaders like Hollande bombing innocents because they feel they have to respond.

How to build the hatred in Europe? Terror again is working well.

If my hair brained theory is right, we can expect moves to protect Isis from Kurds and Shiites, so Europeans feel forced to involve themselves more. If this plan is what is unfolding, I would say Assad is a severe impediment, unless he does a partition deal.

[TargeT]

The real person that runs turkey?

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[Baby Steps]

The only thing the Turkish military did wrong was quit half way through it. Now they'll suffer the consequences.

On VT, it was said that Erdogan staged it to get rid of more opposition. That sounds believable for the madman....

Current theory:
CIA worked with Erdogan to fake a kemalist coup-set up to fail.
CIA wants Erdogan to cement his position, and is helping by facilitating the removal of secularists within the state-particularly the army.
CIA knows that there has been a huge upswing in anti us sentiment in Turkey-and Erdogan COULD have been weakened by being seen as too close to USA.
This way Erdogan is distancing himself from the us. Or appearing to.

Sorry but I keep thinking about Albert Pike's prediction that the third great war would be between religions-in order to destroy the IDEA of religions.
That confrontation would be Christianity against Islam.
It would be Europe against the Middle East.
This 'great work' is a long one, however. There needs to be a credible Islamic enemy. That means a large territory, unified, with strong military capabilities, and Islamic leadership. There have been setbacks. Egypt went back to secular ('NO MORE BEARDS! they were chanting)
To build this manipulated enemy, you probably need Turkey, Saudi, and Egypt.

But how to unify them and Alienate them from Europe?

Isis are doing the job quite well. If Kurds and Shiites extinguish Isis, brutally, this will not enrage Sunnis in these countries too much, but if Europeans start indiscriminate bombing on civilians in this area, this could anger the Clerics. We are seeing the beginning of this planned process- Terror in Europe leading to weak leaders like Hollande bombing innocents because they feel they have to respond.

How to build the hatred in Europe? Terror again is working well.

If my hair brained theory is right, we can expect moves to protect Isis from Kurds and Shiites, so Europeans feel forced to involve themselves more. If this plan is what is unfolding, I would say Assad is a severe impediment, unless he does a partition deal.

KEMALISM AND THE SOUL OF RUSSIA

We have recently seen some interesting mentions in Russian media regarding the call to prayer being made for the first time at Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (Constantinople)

Why?
A bit of context on Russia. The Rus are the core Slavic group that formed in Ukraine (ie just north of Turkey & the black sea) in the 9th century. This culture was in fact just a remainder of the vast Byzantine sphere. Prior to the fall of Constantinople, this culture extended as far as Ukraine. It regarded itself as the inheritor of ROME, Constantine would have described himself as Roman, although the strongest cultural element was GREEK, including the alphabet (Cyrillic being a derivative of Greek script). Religion was Greek Orthodox (Christian). Hagia Sophia, which now is a stunning visual icon for Western Islam, with its dome and spiky minarets, is,in fact, the pinnacle of Roman engineering, with techniques carried over from The Pantheon, which in the 4th Century was using variable density poured concrete to build vast self supporting domes for the first time. But I digress.
The Soul of Russia is Greek orthodox Byzantine. Guardians of 'true christianity' on the borders of Islam,and to a degree - SEEING ISLAMIC TURKEY AS OCCUPIED CHRISTIAN BYZANTIUM.

So there is the root of ongoing confrontation with Turkey.

Now Kemalism strikes me as being one of the great leaps forward of the 20th Century. historians please correct me if I'm in error. The great turkish culture suffered comprehensive defeat and loss of empire at the end of world war 1. Kemal Ataturk, was the only general who had any success against their enemies, mainly the British. He then led turkey into a progressive SECULAR future. It was a recognition that politics and religion do not mix, and Turkey would be better off running their state without clerics.
In practical terms it has meant that Kemalist generals have intervened to protect this secular principle with regular Coups, in order to stabilise the civilian secular leadership. They have been dominant , powerful and a stabilising influence.The danger I see is that this thinking is retreating, weakened, and due to this recent coup, many of its advocates in the army are behind bars.

The possible result will be a continued de-secularisation of Turkey and its Government.

The potential of this is to inflame the old,old story between Russia and Turkey. Throw in Russia 'meddling in Turkey's back yard' in Syria, and we have trouble. So the Kemalists kept a lid on this danger, but they have now been surgically removed in a false flag CIA controlled coup.

Funny that simultaneously we are seeing destabilisation in places like Azerbaijan, where ethnic Turks have always been fighting others. The Caucasus is another Balkans. Russian dominance has kept a lid on this but for how much longer? Let's hope they come to an accommodation, but it is clear that TPTB are rubbing salt into any fissure that they can find...

[Hervé]

[...]
Funny that simultaneously we are seeing destabilisation in places like Azerbaijan, where ethnic Turks have always been fighting others. The Caucasus is another Balkans. Russian dominance has kept a lid on this but for how much longer? Let's hope they come to an accommodation, but it is clear that TPTB are rubbing salt into any fissure that they can find...

In the words of Lindsey Williams (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91903-Military-coup-in-Turkey-coup-attempt-by-part-of-army-fizzled&p=1083643&viewfull=1#post1083643) from his "elite" friends: "They have to tell you what they're gonna do."

I therefore find it fascinating that so-called "hoaxes" have been unfolding under our nose for over a century:


From the above, one may get accustomed to the idea that not much of what's happening on this planet is left to chance or to a God playing dice: It's designed, planned, financed and implemented in such a way so as to take advantage of the run-of-the-mill human nature and accordingly, appear as wise and gifted with vision whereas it's all well educated "guesses" as in Albert Pike's case:


"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other.

Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion… We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.

Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view.

This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."

Pike letter to Giuseppe Mazzini (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_masonsknightstemplar15.htm)


... and from VT (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/07/23/protocol-vii-universal-war/):
[...]


There can be little if any doubt left – the Protocols are very real; current events as they unfold are reinforcing this every day almost as we are seeing the exact agenda laid out in the Protocols play out before out very eyes.
Protocol VII
1. The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces – are all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have to get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besides ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police and soldiers.

2. Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in other continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein we gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all countries, for they will know that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us an indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues we shall tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of all States by means of the political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. In order to succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration during negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called the “official language,” we shall keep to the opposite tactics and assume the mask of honesty and complacency. In this way the peoples and governments of the GOYIM, whom we have taught to look only at the outside whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the benefactors and saviours of the human race.

UNIVERSAL WAR
3. We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war.

4. The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.

5. We must compel the governments of the GOYIM to take action in the direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly promoted by us through the means of that so-called “Great Power” – The press, which, with a few exceptions that may be disregarded, is already entirely in our hands.

In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in Europe in check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan.

[Hervé]

CIA's clandestine meeting in Istanbul on coup night (http://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/cias-clandestine-meeting-in-istanbul-on-coup-night-2499850)

As more evidence surfaces daily, it will be evident that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was playing a huge role behind the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey

Editor / Internet
14:17 Temmuz 26, 2016 Yeni Şafak


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Henri J. Barkey, former CIA personnel and the current Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, known as the policy maker for U.S. authority, was the second top American figure who orchestrated the coup attempt in Turkey.

According to Istanbul Police's Intelligence, Counter Terror, Cyber Crime and Criminal Units, Barkey was holding a meeting with 17 top figures, most of them foreign nationals, at a hotel on Istanbul's Princes Island on July 15, the day of the failed coup attempt in Turkey.

Barkey was staying in the Splendid Hotel, which was used as a British Military Headquarters during the days of occupation in 1919, between July 15 and 17.

According to the hotel management, Barkey had held a meeting that lasted hours in a special room.

“Barkey and his entourage had been holding a meeting 'till the morning on July 16 in a special room. They have been following the coup attempt over TV channels," the hotel personnel told police.

They said that Barkey welcomed the attendees of the meeting, most of them either foreign policy analysists or academicians, in groups of two or three persons at the hotel entrance.

After receiving all guests, they went into a special room and held the “secret" meeting, according to police.

Meanwhile, Barkey also told the hotel management, “I will make a live interview with CNN International at 4 p.m. and with Voice of America at 6 p.m.," requesting them to arrange “all necessary infrastructure."

Barkey was accused of making several telephone conversations on the coup night.

The police units, who launched a search operation in the hotel, said Barkey was carrying an ex-model cell phone void of internet connection technology, as well as a laptop and smart phone.

Police are investigating the “log" registrations of internet connections and computers of the hotel.

CCTV footage of the hotel, roads and the island's piers are also being investigated.

The coup attempt on July 15, which has been foiled by popular resistance, was organized by a group of Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) members who infiltrated the Turkey's military.

Fetullah Gülen, the U.S.-based leader of FETÖ who has been working with the CIA for several years to design Turkey's political arena, was the mastermind of the coup attempt and Turkey demands his extradition from the U.S.

In early statements, the U.S. repeated denied Turkey's allegations and rejected the extradition request. And now, the U.S. authority is trying to protect him by indicating to form an international commission rather going through direct legal process.

Following the failed coup attempt, millions of Turkish nationals, regardless of their religious identity, political views and ethnic background, are standing united against the coup plotters as well as FETÖ terror group.

All political parties voiced their solidarity with the government and urged the U.S. to extradite Gülen and support Turkey's legal process against coup plotters.

Main squares and streets across the country are filled with people from every age and parts of the society, as they continue celebrating in the evenings the victory of Turkish democracy for the 11th day.

But Barkey tried to cast a shadow on the victory of Turkish people, government and democracy.

“This is a coup attempt where you have no winners. Everybody loses, including the government that survived it," he told the American National Public Radio (NPR) at 3.30 a.m. local time on July 16 from Istanbul.

He also accused that Turkey would be enter in a more chaotic environment though the country entered into a more strong and more democratic environment.

“But I will submit to you that this president [Erdoğan] has been weakened much more now. Even though he will probably have extra constitutional powers, he's weakened, because the face that he projected of an impregnable confident leader is now not there anymore. So he's will be looking over his shoulder all the time. He's going to be less trusting. He already was not trusting of the opposition. I suspect that relations will become much tenser in Turkey, and he will not be able to govern with consensus. Instead, he's going to be governing more and more by dictate, and that is..." he said.

Barkey, an academic from Pennsylvania University, is widely known in Turkey with his book “Turkey's Kurdish Question," which he prepared with former CIA vice chairman, Graham Fuller.

Fuller is also known for his unfaltering support to Gülen and his organization, for he requested the U.S. authority not to extradite Gülen to Turkey.

Barkey has been toiling on recent developments in Turkey and the Middle East. He met PKK terror leader Abdullah Öcalan in Italy and suggested him to stay there before being arrested by Turkey's authority.

His wife Elen Barkey has been working in a high position in the CIA for several years.


Related:
Turkish defense min. criticizes 'pro-coup' BBC coverage (http://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-defense-min-criticizes-pro-coup-bbc-coverage-2499833)

Turkey putschists promised a new military base to the US (http://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-putschists-promised-a-new-military-base-to-the-us-2499758)

Fetullah Gülen works for CIA: Russian MP (http://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/fetullah-gulen-works-for-cia-russian-mp-2499757)

[shaberon]

The "Protocols" are a rehashing of "Dialogue in Hell Between Montesqiu and Machiavelli" and the Pike letter also a fabrication, with extra material lumped in during the 50s by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Guy_Carr.

One explanations is provided here, http://wideshut.co.uk/albert-pikes-3-world-wars-letter-hoax-wideshut-webcast/ and as per comments, usually if you say this, you're a brainwashed Jew in autodefense mode. For one point, though, the terms Zionism and Fascism were not even used in Pike's lifetime.

The "Rus" were also Swedish vikings who took over the area and had trade routes to Constantinople way back then. True, that area was the real Rome that stood until being taken over by Turks around 1450. Religion and racism being what they are...it is not too hard to predict uprisings, and there's definitely a strong play of dominance and deception working the levers. But the CIA is capable of failure. And since it comes from my country, I have to remain a fairly chronic opponent of it, and its deals with other powers such as in this case KSA/UAE as other foreign agitators, along with Gulenists for the internal rot. Of course, I can only be a critic, no one in Washington will ever represent me to "turn it off". Exposing this bloc in mainstream reporting may be one of the few accurate, useful things going on.

[Baby Steps]

The "Protocols" are a rehashing of "Dialogue in Hell Between Montesqiu and Machiavelli" and the Pike letter also a fabrication, with extra material lumped in during the 50s by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Guy_Carr.

One explanations is provided here, http://wideshut.co.uk/albert-pikes-3-world-wars-letter-hoax-wideshut-webcast/ and as per comments, usually if you say this, you're a brainwashed Jew in autodefense mode. For one point, though, the terms Zionism and Fascism were not even used in Pike's lifetime.

The "Rus" were also Swedish vikings who took over the area and had trade routes to Constantinople way back then. True, that area was the real Rome that stood until being taken over by Turks around 1450. Religion and racism being what they are...it is not too hard to predict uprisings, and there's definitely a strong play of dominance and deception working the levers. But the CIA is capable of failure. And since it comes from my country, I have to remain a fairly chronic opponent of it, and its deals with other powers such as in this case KSA/UAE as other foreign agitators, along with Gulenists for the internal rot. Of course, I can only be a critic, no one in Washington will ever represent me to "turn it off". Exposing this bloc in mainstream reporting may be one of the few accurate, useful things going on.

Thanks.
I have not researched the veracity of the Protocols or the Pike letter. Like the writings of David Icke, as time passes and events unfold, they gain credibility because they seem to be predicting things correctly. Hard to know though, but my key view is that wars are being manipulated in a long term, covert strategic way, the term being greater than any (normal) human's lifetime...

[Hervé]

On the other hand, things like these appear in very unexpected places:


[...]

A History of Skull and Bones Rituals Recalled From their Own Archives

They practice Christianity with their lips, and Satanism by their deeds. Some of them are mind controlled into amnesia by the trauma and drugs at the initial ceremony and do not even know later that they are Satanists.

[...]

The CIA did find methods to make over 90% of people criminals without a discernible conscience. They started with the basic Skull and Bone’s ritual and had already made some improvements in it by the time Rodman Rockefeller tasked me to look into the issue. He was not happy with the almost 10% failure rate. Ops were run on Congressmen, CEO’s, and foreign dignitaries. Having to kill 10% of them soon after inviting them to a “DC Party” was a high security risk--- someone might notice and leak that to a part of the press which was not well controlled. So, Rodman was very anxious that the “failure rate”get below 5%.

[...]

Rodman brought me the historical records from the Skull and Bone’s Crypt. That included a blood smear on paper for each of the major rituals, and also financial records, and diaries. There was also an official registry of deaths, the names of the victims was occasionally listed as unknown. In the 1830’s, the basic Skull and Bone’s ritual was to rape/sodomize and then kill a victim with a knife, in no particular order....

[…]

That era came to an end when one of the parents of a sacrificed boy found out about it. The other students in that year were given a choice to serve in WWI or be put in prison. They chose military service. It was a curious choice to give them as the US was not in WWI yet—in fact, no one was. It would take several more years before WWI started. The Bonesmen elders were behind schedule in getting it off the ground. Per the documents in the Rockefeller Archive much preparation had been done to ensure a world war.

[...]

This might give one a measure of why a cleanup task is Herculean (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91903-Military-coup-in-Turkey-coup-attempt-by-part-of-army-fizzled&p=1083643&viewfull=1#post1083643)...

[Hervé]

[...]
Thinking about it and referring to the discussions about the downing of that Russian bomber, it was made possible only with the help of heavy duty intel from US-NATO radar, satellites and AWACS surveillance and data.

This would support the Gulen-educated "Fifth Column" element bent on forcing Erdogan's hand to quit negotiating with Russia,

Following on the above:

US & Saudi Arabia 'Involved in Turkey's Downing of Russian Su-24' in Syria (http://sputniknews.com/world/20160729/1043762151/su24-downing-nato-saudi-involvement.html)

World (http://sputniknews.com/world/)18:28 29.07.2016
(updated 20:03 29.07.2016)
Topic: Russian Su-24 Jet Downed Over Syria (267) (http://sputniknews.com/trend/russia_syria_su24_downed_2015/)


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© Sputnik/ Ramil Sitdikov


German former CDU politician and Vice-President of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Willy Wimmer told Sputnik Deutschland that he fears NATO involvement in the downing of Russia's Su-24 bomber over Syria last November.

NATO was involved in last year's downing of Russia's Su-24 bomber in Syrian airspace, Willy Wimmer, former Vice-President of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), told Sputnik Deutschland (http://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20160729/311815695/nato-abschuss-russischer-kampfjet.html) on Friday. On November 24 2015 Turkish jets (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160720/1043366406/erdogan-russian-jet-gulen.html) downed a Russian Su-24 bomber carrying out anti-terror operations in Syria. The plane's two co-pilots parachuted from the plane but one of them, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov, was shot and killed by suspected Turkmen militants (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160627/1042008697/turkey-su-24-pilot-murderer-trial.html) operating in Syria.

The incident caused a major diplomatic dispute (http://sputniknews.com/military/20151125/1030699146/questioning-turkey-airspace-story.html) between Turkey and Russia; the former said the bomber was shot for infringing Turkish airspace, but Russia maintains the Su-24 did not enter Turkish airspace, and was carrying out an anti-Daesh mission in Syria when it was downed.

The downing had been interpreted as a unilateral decision by Turkey, but Willy Wimmer contends that in fact, NATO and Saudi forces were involved in the incident.

"According to my information, Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft from the US and Saudi Arabia were involved," Wimmer said.

"Aircraft like that Russian Su-24 bomber are not that easy to just shoot out of the sky. You need to take aim, and you can only do that with AWACS aircraft."

© Ruptly.
Russian defense officials released the Su-24 flight data, which shows its position in Syrian airspace at the moment it was downed by Turkish F-16s

The two AWACS planes involved in the incident took off from a US base on Cyprus, and an airbase in Saudi Arabia respectively, Wimmer said. He explained that according to NATO guidelines, if a plane is believed to be violating another country's airspace then contact should made with the appropriate flight control center to draw the pilot's attention to the error. In peacetime, the most a military aircraft is allowed to do is to force a stray aircraft to make an emergency landing.

"What happened there does not comply with international regulations in any way. They brought the Russian plane down because they wanted to," Wimmer said.

Wimmer believes that the motivation for enabling the otherwise inexplicable attack, was a desire on the part of Turkey's allies (http://sputniknews.com/world/20160722/1043459968/west-turkey-relationship.html)to spoil diplomatic relations between Turkey and Russia. "It must be assumed that if somebody breaks international rules, then political interests are at stake. This was about destroying the relations between the Turkish Republic and the Russian Federation, which were blossoming (back) then," the politician said.

"Last year the construction of the South Stream pipeline (http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150824/1026122064/putin-bulgaria-pipeline.html) (from Russia) through the EU was stopped because of American pressure. A few weeks later, Russia and Turkey successfully created a replacement, the Turkish Stream (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151218/1031954868/turkey-natural-gas-supply-problems.html). Of course, that was diametrically opposed to the Americans' sanctions politics against Russia. The reaction of the Americans can be interpreted accordingly," Wimmer believes.

Last month Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wrote a letter of apology (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160627/1042017250/putin-erdogan-su24-jet.html) to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the downing of the Su-24. The Turkish President said that Turkey "never had a desire or a deliberate intention to down an aircraft belonging to Russia," and expressed his deep sympathy and condolences to the relatives of the deceased Russian pilot.

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... which the Russians already knew at the time it happened:


BOMBSHELL: Ambush of Russian Bomber Was Guided by US Reconnaissance
(http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/bombshell-turkish-attack-russian-su-24-was-guided-us-and-saudis-reconnassaince-aircraft)
Alexey Leonkov (http://russia-insider.com/en/alexey-leonkov) (Regnum - Russian news agency (http://russia-insider.com/en/regnum_-_russian_news_agency_0)) Mon, Nov 30 |


This is what you would call 'a stab in the back' of the leader of the anti-terrorist forces


http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/styles/s400/public/regnum_picture_1448530479743939_big.jpg?itok=A1d6yieL (http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/regnum_picture_1448530479743939_big.jpg)


A Russian military expert and columnist of the journal Arsenal of the Fatherland explains the details of the downing of the bomber and why not all went smoothly in an interview to the news agency Regnum (http://regnum.ru/news/polit/2021108.html)

How did it all happen?
A U.S. Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS plane took off on 24 November from the Preveza airbase in Greece. A second E-3A of the Saudi Arabian air force took off from the Riyadh airbase. Both planes were executing a common task—determining the precise location of Russian aircraft. It is they that picked the “victim.”

The American E-3A was supposed to determine the activity of the Su-24M2's onboard targeting radar, to determine if it was in search mode or if it had already locked on to a target and was processing launch data. It is known that the AWACS can direct the activity of aircraft in battle, conveying information to their avionics and flight computers.

That is, to determine how defenseless was our plane?
As it turns out, yes. As we know, the Su-24M2 was returning from its mission, and its flight computer was operating in “navigation” mode in tandem with the GLONASS [Russian GPS system.] It was returning to base and was not preparing for action. The whole time, the E-3s were transferring detailed information about the Su-24M2 to a pair of Turkish F-16CJ's. This plane [the F-16CJ] had been specifically built for Turkey. Its distinctive feature is a computer that controls a new, AN/APG-68 radar system, and which fulfills the role of a copilot-navigator.

But this information is obviously not enough to precision-strike a small target. Was something else used?
Indeed, the interception accuracy of the F-16CJ fighters was augmented by ground-based U.S. Patriot air defense systems, which are deployed in Turkey, or more precisely, their multirole AN/MPQ-53 radars. The Patriot can work with an E-3 or with MENTOR spy satellites, and it can't be ruled out that the satellite assets involved the Geosat space system as well.

The flight trajectory of the F-16CJ indicates a precision interception of its target by means of triangulation: A pair of E-3s plus the Patriot's air defense radar plus the geostationary MENTOR spy satellites plus, possibly, the Geosat space system.

Besides which, the E-3s provided guidance as to the location of our plane in the air; they determined its route, speed, and the status of its weapons control systems; and the Patriot's air defense radar together with the MENTOR spy satellite provided telemetry on the SU-24M2's movement relative to the ground surface—that is, it provided a precise prediction as to where our plane would be visible relative to the mountainous terrain.

So it turns out that the Turkish fighters knew with absolutely certainty where to wait in ambush for our plane?
Of course. A pair of F-16CJ's flew to the [missile] launch zone and, at a distance of 4-6 kilometers, practically point blank!, launched an AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missile into the rear hemisphere of our Russian bomber. Besides which, the AN/APG-68 onboard radar of the fighter which launched the missile, was working in “target illumination” mode. That is, it turned on at the moment of launch, and turned off as soon as the missile definitively locked on to its target.

Did our pilots have a chance to save their plane?
No. The Su-24M2 crew's probability of escaping destruction was equal to zero…
…Turkey does not have its own capabilities for such a detailed and very precise operation. And don't forget about the second E-3, from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The whole scenario was very fast-moving, lasting just seconds.

Did it really happen that smoothly?
The Turks nonetheless committed one mistake, which led to their provocation not quite working out. The F-16CJ went out on its interception two minutes late, when the Su-24M2 had already left the disputed 68-kilometer zone in the north of Syria [this may be referring to the Turk's self-styled no-fly-zone against Assad]; to leave it required at most 1.5 minutes. But the “kill” command to the F-16CJ had not been revoked; thus the missile launch was carried out a bit further than the intended point. This is confirmed by the fact that the [Turkish TV] footage of the Su-24M2's fall was planned to be filmed from both Syrian territory and Turkish territory; however, the “Syrian footage” is more detailed. It appears that this saved our navigator. He was able to go into the woods and wait for a rescue team.

[Hervé]

The clockwork is well oiled:

Saudi Zio-Wahhabi mouthpiece assails Turkey’s Erdogan (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/07/29/saudi-zio-wahhabi-mouthpiece-assails-turkeys-erdogan/)

By Ian Greenhalgh (http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/iangreenhalgh/) on July 29, 2016

Saudi attack on Erdogan is a sign of a deterioration in Saudi-Turkish relations

When a Saudi newspaper owned by the son of the king attacks Erdogan, it is a symptom of the swiftly deteriorating relationship between Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Furthermore, this deterioration is largely due to the improving relations between Turkey and Iran. This is a significant shift in Middle Easterm politics and will have significant implications, not least for Islamic State and the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

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Shoah.org.uk
Saudi Zio-Wahhabi mouthpiece assails Turkey’s Erdogan (http://www.shoah.org.uk/2016/07/29/saudi-zio-wahhabi-mouthpiece-assails-turkeys-erdogan/)


By M K Bhadrakumar


The influential Saudi daily Asharq Al-Awsat, which belongs to Prince Faisal bin Salman (son of King Salman), Governor of Madinah, tore into Turkish President Recep Erdogan with a series of vicious attacks that brings to the fore the cracks in the politics of the Muslim Middle East following the failed coup in Turkey last Friday. On successive days, three Op-Eds have appeared, authored by two of the most authoritative establishment talkers in the Saudi media – Abdulrahman Al-Rashed (currently general manager of Al-Arabiya television and formerly editor-in-chief of the daily) and Eyad Abu Shakra (incumbent managing editor of the daily).


Full article: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/07/29/saudi-zio-wahhabi-mouthpiece-assails-turkeys-erdogan/

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What a 2-minute latency (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91903-Military-coup-in-Turkey-coup-attempt-by-part-of-army-fizzled&p=1085668&viewfull=1#post1085668) in shooting down the Russian Su-24 led to ^^^

[Cidersomerset]

Turkish Coup Fallout: Chief of Staff Fingers Gulen As Plot Leader

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Published on 29 Jul 2016

SHOW NOTES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=19393
From the Turkish Armed Forces's Chief of Staff hanging the plot on Erdogan
to the drama at Incirlik and the NBC psyops, Christoph Germann of the New
Great Game blog is here to update us on all the latest news, views and
reactions to this month's failed coup attempt in Turkey

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Turkey failed coup: Who are the Gulenists?

By Mark Lowen
BBC Turkey correspondent

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36920535

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Has Turkeys purge gone to far ?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36918043

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Media crackdown in Turkey: 'The only solution to go out of this crisis is a peace policy'

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Published on 27 Jul 2016

Alp Altinors, HDP deputy chairman, discuss with RT ongoing media crackdown in
Turkey.Turkish authorities ordered the closure of more than 130 media outlets on
Wednesday in a crackdown following July 16 failed coup: 3 news agencies, 23 radio
stations, 16 TV channels, 45 newspapers, 15 magazines, and 29 publishers and
distributors.Some 1,600 military personnel were also sacked in the Turkish
government’s latest move.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Press TV....
Turkey sacks 88 Foreign Ministry staff in post-coup crackdown
Thu Jul 28, 2016 12:54PM

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/28/477320/Turkey-crackdown-coup

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Massive Anti-US Rally Staged At NATO Incirlik Air Base In Turkey

By David on 29 July 2016 GMT

http://www.govtslaves.info/massive-anti-us-rally-staged-at-nato-incirlik-air-base-in-turkey/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YqyNTktQqg
#1 Incirlik Turkey protesting against supposed US link to coup attempt...

[Hervé]

Turkey: Yet Another CIA Operation Uncovered by Journalists (http://journal-neo.org/2016/08/06/turkey-yet-another-cia-operation-uncovered-by-journalists/)

By Martin Berger (http://journal-neo.org/author/martin-berger/) 06.08.2016


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Non-corporate media sources have recently uncovered yet another CIA operation that shocks even experienced analysts because of Washington’s blatant confidence that its criminal actions in different regions of the world will go unnoticed and unpunished. We see yet again that in order to secure its foreign interests along with the interests of US military contractors, the White House is demanding the CIA to constantly develop new covert operations aimed at overthrowing political figures who object to Washington’s interests upon the international scene.

One should not be surprised if tomorrow a CIA agent appears, demanding obedience to American dictates. If only the international community would rally against such malicious practices, demanding the White House and the CIA to answer for their actions in front of an international tribunal.

According to the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak Daily, the failed military coup in Turkey was staged by the White House. The newspaper is providing details regarding who exactly was behind the preparations of this bloody event, noting that due to rapidly deteriorating relations between the Obama administration and Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, Washington launched an operation to create preconditions (http://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/cias-clandestine-meeting-in-istanbul-on-coup-night-2499850) for the toppling of the Turkish president.

It’s noted that the massive propaganda war against Erdogan coupled with the extensive amount of pressure that was put on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European politicians who are heavily influenced by Washington to prevent Turkey’s accession to the EU, despite a string of encouraging promises that have been fed to Ankara for the last three decades, was but the first step. This push was followed by the demand of former US ambassadors who published a former appeal to Tayyip Erdogan in the White House mouthpiece – The Washington Post, demanding (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/turkeys-erdogan-must-reform-or-resign/2016/03/10/80cc9be2-dffe-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html%20) Erdogan to step down immediately.

The new phase of confrontation between Ankara and Washington started last April, once Turkish officials threatened to ban US military personnel from using the Incirlik military base (http://www.yenicaggazetesi.com.tr/abdyle-incirlik-ussu-polemigi-37692yy.htm%20). Yet, the main reason behind the failed military coup that was prepared in much haste, was rapprochement between Ankara and Moscow that was perceived by the White House as a major threat to US domination in the Middle East.

According to a recent journalistic investigation, US intelligence services spent over 2 billion dollars on the preparations of the failed military in Turkey. The mastermind behind the coup, we are being told, is the former commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, General John F. Campbell. He was behind the planning of this operation and instructing Turkish military officers at the Incirlik military base. It’s been reported that this American General acted under the direct supervision of the CIA and in close contact with the movement of the self-exiled cleric Fethullah Gülen, who resides in Pennsylvania. The 2 billion dollars that Washington decided to spent on the coup was transferred to Campbell via Nigerian bank UBA. This sum was used to bribe Turkish officers who decided to participate in the failed coup attempt.

It’s believed that Campbell led the preparations for the operation in Turkey for eight and a half months. We are being told that the CIA established a special team with the code name of “Safari (http://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-putschists-promised-a-new-military-base-to-the-us-2499758)” to operate the coup plot process and rehearse all steps of the operation. According to Turkish journalists, Henri Bakrey was the CIA’s “supervisor on the spot (http://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/cias-clandestine-meeting-in-istanbul-on-coup-night-2499850)” in Turkey, this former CIA agent now occupies the position (https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/henri-j-barkey#sthash.mGWsS32i.dpuf) of the Director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

It’s now known that Henri Bakrey was holding meetings in Istanbul on July 15 and 16 in the lounge of the Île de Princes Hotel. Barkey was so confident that the outcome of the CIA coup would be successful that he even demanded the administration of the hotel to assist him in making a public statement on July 16 to Western media sources like the CNN, NBC and Voice of America.

Turkish journalists report that the military coup was not simply aimed at toppling the sitting Turkish leader and replacing him with a more convenient pro-US candidate, but to obtain an additional military base within Turkish territory to strengthen its subversive activities (http://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-putschists-promised-a-new-military-base-to-the-us-2499758) against Syria, Iran and Russia.

So, it looks like it’s high time to hold the United States and the CIA accountable for the ongoing meddling in the sovereign affairs of other states, which has now led to the spread (http://journal-neo.org/2016/04/14/cia-operations-and-the-spread-of-chaos-in-the-world/) of destructive chaos and destabilisations across a number of regions.

Martin Berger is a freelance journalist and geopolitical analyst, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.” (http://journal-neo.org/)

http://journal-neo.org/2016/08/06/turkey-yet-another-cia-operation-uncovered-by-journalists/

[Hervé]

F. William Engdahl: Turkey should investigate Ambassador John Bass for role in failed coup (http://katehon.com/video/f-william-engdahl-ambassador-john-bass-professional-cia-agent-provocateur)

Katehon (http://katehon.com/video/f-william-engdahl-ambassador-john-bass-professional-cia-agent-provocateur)
Mon, 08 Aug 2016 13:07 UTC



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The new evidence of the US participation in the coup attempt in Turkey emerged. Greek press published a photo made a day before the coup. It shows the US ambassador in Turkey John Basse together with the Turkish senior officer, who looks like one of the leaders of the coup Col. Ali Yazıcı (former military adviser to President Erdogan). They had a private meeting in Cengelkoy café the day before the coup.

F. William Engdahl - historian, economic researcher, writer comments this:
The US right now is on a defensive. Erdogan has openly challenged leading NATO generals. There is investigation of evidences of the US involvement in the coup. I personally have suggested investigating the person of the US Ambassador in Ankara John Bass, who was Ambassador in Republic of Georgia in 2008 and who was involved in dirty business in Iraq, and also seems to be involved in "Color revolution" in Kiev. There are very few "traditional" diplomats in a state department.
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SOTT Comment: (https://www.sott.net/article/324608-F-William-Engdahl-Turkey-should-investigate-Ambassador-John-Bass-for-role-in-failed-coup) Further reading:
Secret Turkish intelligence source: Erdogan rebelled against NATO but won after taking control of Incirlik air force base (https://www.sott.net/article/322755-Secret-Turkish-intelligence-source-Erdogan-rebelled-against-NATO-but-won-after-taking-control-of-Incirlik-air-force-base)

The nucleus of the coup was the American Incirlik air force base in Turkey (located on the Mediterranean coast, a few hundred kilometers from the border with Syria, allows to control the Middle East. - Ed.). Chief of the base, Turkish General Bekir Ercan Van is now arrested (the base was also used for Turkish aircraft - after all the country is a member of NATO. - Ed.).

All the main characters are from there. According to my insider information, the US Ambassador to Turkey John Bass (he had previously served in Georgia and there also conducted the anti-Russian policy) met several times with the former commander of the air force and the leader of the coup Akin Ozturk and the head of the base under the pretext of discussing relations with the Kurds in Syria and Iraq. The Turkish military - in general are mostly graduates of NATO military institutions, are pro-American. As interrogations show, the current conspirators, among whom were the top and the second echelon, received serious guarantees from the military and diplomatic leadership of the United States. They were promised asylum in the base in case of failure.

[Hervé]

Hand caught in the cookie jar! Photo evidence shows US Turkish ambassador meeting with Colonel Yazici day before coup (http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/08/evidence-us-ambassador-basse-met-coup.html)

Katehon with J. Flores
FortRuss (http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/08/evidence-us-ambassador-basse-met-coup.html) Sun, 07 Aug 2016 14:29 UTC


https://www.sott.net/image/s16/336220/large/coup2.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s16/336220/full/coup2.jpg)
Ambassador John Basse together with Col. Ali Yazıcı


Katehon think tank and geopolitical forecasting has run a short article (below) with pictures which appear to show Turkish NATO Colonel Ali Yazici and what is undoubtedly US Ambassdor to Turkey, John Basse.
The new evidence of the US participation in the coup attempt in Turkey emerged. Greek press published a photo made a day before the coup. It shows the US ambassador in Turkey John Basse together with the Turkish senior officer, who looks like one of the leaders of the coup Col. Ali Yazici (former military adviser to President Erdogan). They had a private meeting in Cengelkoy café the day before the coup."

The image demonstrates the US involvement in the coup and its close ties with a part of Turkish army, before the upheaval. Recall, that physical elimination of Erdogan was one of the goals of the coup attempt.

The next move by the Turkish government will be to ask the expulsion of the American ambassador from the country which will cause further disruption to the US and trigger process of Turkey leaving the NATO. https://www.sott.net/image/s16/336223/pod/John_R_Bass_ambassador.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s16/336223/full/John_R_Bass_ambassador.jpg) https://www.sott.net/image/s16/336221/pod/1469037752318.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s16/336221/full/1469037752318.jpg)
Ambassador John Basse - Colonel Ali Yazici

Feigning indignation, Basse lashed out against the distribution of the photographic evidence: "I just want to say again, as I've said before and as we've said from Washington, the United States government did not plan, direct, support or have any advance knowledge of any of the illegal activities that occurred the night of July 15 and into July 16. Full stop [...], Frankly, if we would have had knowledge we would have told the Turkish government about it immediately," US ambassador John Bass said in the Turkish English-language Hurriyet Daily News.

He went on to say that he was "deeply disturbed and offended by the accusations". Not long after the coup attempt, Labour Minister Suleyman Soylu went on the record saying that "the United States is behind the coup." Turkey's former army chief, Ilker Basbug, stated earlier this week that the CIA was also behind it.


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Frankly, if we would have had knowledge we would have told the Turkish government about it immediately,... makes one wonder about the competence of their (US) intelligence service(s), doesn't it?

[Cidersomerset]

Enemy of my enemy comes to mind.....

Putin meets Erdogan for 1st time since downing of Russian jet

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Published on 9 Aug 2016

Turkish president Recep Tayip Ergodan is to meet with “his friend”
Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in hopes of turning a fresh page in the
two countries’ relations. It will be their first meeting since Turkey
downed a Russian bomber over Syria last November

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Turkey-Russia thaw: Russia to end sanctions on Turkey gradually

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Published on 9 Aug 2016

[Cidersomerset]

A show of unity: Can Turkey's failed coup unite the country?

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Published on 8 Aug 2016

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Putin mends broken relations with Turkey's Erdogan
3 hours ago

The leaders of Russia and Turkey have patched up a damaging quarrel, pledging to
restore close economic relations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian trade sanctions on Turkey would be
phased out "step by step".

"The priority is to get back to the pre-crisis level of co-operation," he told Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in St Petersburg.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37018562

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Turkey coup: Massive Istanbul rally hails Erdogan - BBC News

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Published on 8 Aug 2016

Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in Istanbul to protest against last
month's attempted coup in Turkey.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was joined by
opposition leaders in addressing the crowd and similar rallies were held across the
country.Bethany Bell reports.

[Cidersomerset]

What a difference an attempted coup makes....


Turkey offers to carry out joint operations with Russia against ISIS

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Published on 11 Aug 2016

Turkey has offered to carry out joint operations with Russia in the fight
against Islamic State in Syria, just days after President Putin met with
his Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan, for crucial talks to mend ties
between the two nations.



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War in Syria: Turkey calls on Russia for joint operations
against the Islamic State Organization

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Published on 12 Aug 2016

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US claims no change of strategy in Syria as Turkey offers Russia to team up

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Published on 12 Aug 2016

Turkey has offered to carry out joint military operations with Russia,
against Islamic State terrorists in Syria.

However, closer ties between Ankara and Moscow could put the U.S.
in a difficult position - as Turkey is considered Washington's NATO
and coalition ally.

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Iran’s foreign minister visits Ankara

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Published on 12 Aug 2016

Iran's top diplomat is expected in Ankara for talks with his Turkish counterpart as
well as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.The visit by Mohammad Javad Zarif is the
most significant by a foreign official to Turkey since last month's failed coup
attempt.Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Ankara.

[Hervé]

Western, Arab Media Confirm FNA's Last Month Report on Russian Alert to Erdogan about Turkish Coup (http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950523000658)

Sat Aug 13, 2016 1:17


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TEHRAN (FNA)- Renowned western and Arab media outlets and journalists confirmed that Russia had warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of an imminent coup by the army on July 15, a revelation that appeared in an FNA report last month.

A July 20 FNA report (http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950430001452), quoting Rai Alyoum, revealed that Turkey's President Erdogan had been alerted by Russia against an imminent army coup hours before it was initiated, and added that Erdogan asked his supporters to remain in the streets after receiving advice from Tehran.

Several Arab media outlets, including Rai Alyoum, quoted diplomatic sources in Ankara as saying that Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, known locally as the MIT, received intel from its Russian counterpart that warned of an impending coup in the Muslim state.

Now Rai Alyoum Editor-in-Chief Abdel Bari Atwan has stepped forward and once again confirmed the report in an interview with Russia Today Arabic news network, saying, "The Russian intelligence came to find out about the coup in Turkey before anyone else and the Russian President informed his Turkish counterpart in an urgent hotline phone call."

Asked about his sources and the reliability of his report, the renowned journalist said, "We earned this piece of news from several sources; the Russian intelligence service had managed to monitor and pick up abnormal and massive moves of the Turkish army through the Tartus base in Syria."

He further stated that the move has caused a U-Turn in President Erdogan's foreign policy towards Russia, specially with regard to Syria.

Meantime, Robert Fisk who heads the Middle-East desk of Independent also confirmed the report (http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/erdogan-putin-turkey-russia-meeting-after-failed-coup-isis-syria-what-future-holds-a7180551.html) in an article on Tuesday.

"Russia and, indeed, Iran played an intelligence role in warning Erdogan of the military coup plotted against him," Fisk wrote.

"The Arabs have already been told by their Russian collocutors that Putin, being the old KGB boss that he was, personally sent a message to Erdogan after learning of the coup from Turkish army communications, which were picked up and listened to by Russian technicians at their air base just outside Lattakia in Syria," he added.

"The Iranians – who would be happy to see Turkey turned against their Sunni Islamist enemies in Syria – also tipped off Erdogan about the coup, so the Arabs have been told," Fisk said.

Fisk also presented an analysis identical with Atwan in his Independent article, saying that Turkey is now leaning towards Russia and turning its back to the former Arab and western allies.

The FNA report last month (http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950430001452) quoted diplomatic sources in Ankara as saying that the Russian army in the region had intercepted highly sensitive army exchanges and encoded radio messages showing that the Turkish army was readying to stage a coup against the administration in Ankara.

The exchanges included dispatch of several army choppers to President Erdogan's resort hotel to arrest or kill the president.

The diplomats were not sure of the Russian station that had intercepted the exchanges, but said the Russian army intelligence unit deployed in Khmeimim (also called Hmeimim) in Syria's Northern province of Lattakia is reportedly equipped with state-of-the-art electronic and eavesdropping systems to gather highly sensitive information for the Russian squadrons that are on an anti-terrorism mission in Syria.

Khmeimim in Northwestern Syria is the only Russian air force base in the war-ravaged country that provides cover for Syrian army and popular forces in multiple fronts across the country, in addition to bombing missions against terrorist targets. The Russian naval fleet, including its only aircraft carrier, are deployed along the coasts of Lattakia border province to provide logistical aid to the air base in a short time. Meantime, Russia has deployed its highly sophisticated S-400 air defense shield at Khmeimim and announced that it covers the entire Syrian skies with the same air defense system.

Last year, Turkey shot down a Russian Sukhoi bomber over Syrian skies and President Erdogan who was then a staunch enemy of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad rejected extending an apology to Moscow for about a year, although economic sanctions by Russia as well as growing victories by the Syrian army, popular forces, Hezbollah fighters, Iranian advisors and Russian air force that cornered the terrorists in Syria and similar victories against ISIL in Iraq convinced the Turkish president to not just apologize for the Sukhoi incident, but also show signs of a U-turn in foreign policy, saying that he is dropping his opposition to President Assad.

Four days after the coup, officials in Ankara announced that the two Turkish pilots who played a role in the downing of the Russian plane in November were in custody over the recent failed coup. “Two pilots who were part of the operation to down the Russian Su-24 in November 2015 are in custody,” a Turkish official told journalists on Tuesday, adding that they were detained over links to the coup bid.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan only two days after the coup, and rejected the Turkish army attempt as unacceptable.

The diplomatic sources said the shift in Erdogan's foreign policy stated only a week before the coup has been "a major cause pushing several foreign states to provoke and promise support for the army to stage the coup, and the same shift also saved him" as it was not clear if the Russians would provide Ankara with their intel, otherwise.

Officials of neither country rejected or confirmed the revelation about Moscow's aid to President Erdogan. In Ankara, official sources, including the Army itself, confirmed that the Turkish army’s top generals had been informed of the coup by the MIT hours before the plot came into action.

A statement issued by the army on July 19 described the events that took place on July 15, saying a majority within the military managed to suppress the coup attempt due to information provided by the MIT some five hours before the coup plot became public, national newspaper Hurriyet reported.

“The information given by the National Intelligence Organization on July 15, 2016, at around 4:00 p.m. was evaluated at the General Staff headquarters with the attendance of Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar, Chief of the Army General Salih Zeki Colak and Deputy Chief of Staff General Yasar Guler."

In order to counter the coup, high ranking officials within the Turkish army gave orders for all air and ground forces around the country to immediately cease operations including military vehicles such as tanks, planes and helicopters.

A report by Al-Jazeera Arabic then suggested the coup plotters initiated the operation six hours ahead of time as they had previously planned to launch the coup at 3:00 a.m. local time on July 16.

While the report did not indicate the reason for the coup being initiated ahead of time, the revelation by the military suggested the coup plotters understood their plans had been compromised and decided to act.

Reports also suggest the coup plotters had orders to kidnap or kill President Erdogan as helicopters headed toward the hotel he was staying in at the holiday resort of Marmaris. But Erdogan had left 44 minutes before they arrived, according to Al-Jazeera’s report.

The official statements coming out from Ankara were in full compliance with the Arab media reports quoting the diplomatic sources on the Russian intel.

Only four days after the coup, Erdogan appeared on the media saying that he planned to declare a crucial turn in foreign policy that would "end differences with Turkey's neighboring states".

Less than a day later, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that President Erdogan would visit Russia early in August to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The visit took place this week and contained romantic words from the Turkish president towards his Russian counterpart that he called in several interviews as "my friend Vladimir".

Meantime, Iran rushed to condemn the Turkish army coup only two hours after it started. Several top security and foreign policy officials in Tehran were in constant contact with President Erdogan and his cabinet ministers all throughout Friday.

As July 15 was coming to an end in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was on the phone with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose government was under the threat of being overthrown by a military coup. Meanwhile, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), was on another line with security officials in Ankara. All the while, Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Iran’s regional military arm, was busy pursuing and reviewing various scenarios that might emerge.

“It’s not a secret anymore,” an Iranian official told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. “Zarif, Shamkhani and Soleimani were executing higher orders. The whole establishment was too concerned. Turkey is a neighboring state. President Erdogan and his government are strong partners of Iran. Our nations enjoy strong brotherly ties, so it’s the least we can do to show solidarity and try to offer any help they might need in such critical times.”

"Another Iranian official saw parallels between the successful coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 and this year's coup attempt in Turkey," Al-Monitor said in a report a few days after the coup.

The official told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, “What we know is that this move was triggered by foreign hands. We went through the same in the past, and because Mr. Erdogan is today looking forward to playing a better role in the region, they want him down.” The Iranian official said, “There was a message that was conveyed to Turkish security officials: Don’t leave the streets. This coup might be made up of several waves; it happened in Iran in 1953. When the first coup failed, they had another one ready — and they succeeded.”

In Ankara, the government claimed the coup and the generals behind it are loyal followers of US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who was once Erdogan’s key ally before a major fallout in 2012. Many believe that Gulen is the main cause of why Ankara officials have repeatedly accused the US of masterminding the plot.

Gulen is running a multi-billion dollar enterprise in Saudi Arabia and has grown into a serious bone of contention in Ankara-Riyadh ties. Saudi Arabia reserved condemnation of the coup in a suspicious move. Later, reports surfaced the media that the top brass in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi - two strong allies of the US with unbreakably intimate ties with each other in the Persian Gulf - were involved in the coup.

Saudi whistle-blower Mujtahid, who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family, disclosed that senior government officials in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi had been informed of the coup in Turkey long before it took place.

Mujtahid wrote on his twitter page on Monday that the UAE leaders had played a role in the coup and the Turkish spy agencies have come to decode this involvement, adding that the UAE leaders had also alerted the Saudis about the impending coup.

"Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammad bin Salman had been informed of the military coup in Turkey," Mujtahid wrote on his twitter page on Monday.

"There are reasons to prove that given his intimate relations with Mohammad bin Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan (the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces), Mohammad bin Salman had been filled with information about this coup," he added.

According to Mujtahid, Turkish intelligence agencies had received information about some negative collaboration between bin Salman and bin Zayed, but the Saudis managed to convince the Justice and Development party to rest assured and be optimistic about Riyadh's actions.

He revealed that bin Salman has been trying to convince the Turks to conceal the UAE's role in the coup and has promised a large amount of cash in retribution.

"The coup in Turkey is now growing into a major regional confrontation over Turkey's shift in its Syria policy now. If confirmed, the Russian and Iranian aid to Erdogan would mean the power balance and equations in the region ought to be redefined," the FNA report on July 20 concluded (http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950430001452).

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Frankly, if we would have had knowledge we would have told the Turkish government about it immediately,... makes one wonder about the competence of their (US) intelligence service(s), doesn't it?

[Cidersomerset]

Related.....

WikiLeaks, Hillary-Gulen Intimate Ties & How Clintons Gave Birth to Mullah Gulen’s Terrorist Network

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Published on 12 Aug 2016

In this episode of Spotlight with Sibel and Spiro we discuss the notorious USA-based Mullah
Fethullah Gulen and Operation Gladio B in light of Wikileaks’ recent announcement that they
plan to release a new batch of e-mails exposing the intimate ties between Hillary Clinton and
Gulen’s 25+ Billion shady network. Sibel Edmonds explains how Fethullah Gulen was brought
into the United States during the Clinton Administration, and how Bill Clinton’s White House,
the State Department and the Justice Department’s Janet Reno provided the infamous mullah
and his terrorism-heroin operations with blanket immunity and protection. We also take a look
at Clinton’s hand-picked handlers, Graham Fuller and Mark Grossman, selected to manage and
direct Gulen’s cells in the U.S. and abroad.

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US claims no change of strategy in Syria as Turkey offers Russia to team up

By David on 14 August 2016 GMT

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Published on 12 Aug 2016


Turkey has offered to carry out joint military operations with Russia, against Islamic
State terrorists in Syria.However, closer ties between Ankara and Moscow could put
the U.S. in a difficult position - as Turkey is considered Washington's NATO and
coalition ally.

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Turkey rejects UN allegations of rights abuse

By David on 14 August 2016 GMT Political Manipulation

PRESS TV...

Turkey rejects UN allegations of rights abuse

‘Turkey has rejected allegations of rights abuse made by the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, criticizing him for the unacceptable remarks.

Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic said in a statement on Saturday
that Ankara has respected the rights of people in the crackdown on officials
suspected of being involved in the abortive coup of July 15.

Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein, the UN human rights chief, has called on the Turkish
government to uphold the rights of detainees under arrest since mid-July, saying
Ankara should stem its “thirst for revenge.”’

Read more: Turkey rejects UN allegations of rights abuse

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/08/13/479837/Turkey-UN-allegations-rights-abuse

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14 Turkish judiciary members remanded over ‘links to opposition cleric’

By David on 14 August 2016 GMT

PRESS TV.....

14 Turkish judiciary members remanded over ‘links to opposition cleric’

‘Judiciary officials in Turkey have been remanded in custody more than a dozen
judges and prosecutors over alleged affiliation to US-based opposition cleric
Fethullah Gulen, whom the Ankara government accuses of having orchestrated the
failed July 15 coup attempt in the country.

Judicial sources anonymously told state-run Anadolu news agency that a court in
the city of Istanbul had decided on Friday evening to keep 14 suspects in custody
and release as many others on parole.’

Read more: 14 Turkish judiciary members remanded over ‘links to opposition cleric’

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/08/13/479794/Turkey-judges-prosecutors-Gulen-links

[Cidersomerset]

One month on from Turkey's failed coup - BBC News

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Published on 15 Aug 2016

It has been one month since the attempted coup in Turkey, when military officers
tried to take control of the country with tanks, rockets and aircraft. The uprising
was crushed but tens of thousands of people have been detained or dismissed under
a state of emergency imposed by President Erdogan. Mark Lowen assesses how
things have changed in the country.

[mahasamatman]

As a Turkish citizen, i am glad to see people of avalon community (a.k.a people with open minds) can really see whats going on at the failed coup attempt in turkey.

But i have to tell that, most of these articles just don't show the real face of "Gulen" movement as much as we see in turkey. I have known people who joined (and left for good) Gulens cell houses (also known as "House of Light" ).

At those houses, they pick -mostly poor students, promising them free help for their education and in exchange they give them tasks like reading gulen's books and joining their meetings held by greater managers ( also known as "abi" which means "greater brother" ).

Thats where the brainwashing begins, they teach gulen as someone who can directly talk with Mohammad every night in his dreams, a messenger which is born every 100 years and everything he says is the direct order from Porphet Mohammad.

After a while those "greater brothers" pick potential militants, and move them to targeted goverment areas by helping them cheating in exams (i.e military enterance exams or goverment enterance exams, or even university exams). I am not saying this by reading things from the media but these things have been known for many years between turkish citizens but we were unable to do anything about it.

They also target "oppurtunist" businessmen by letting them to join their movement. Gulen followers strictly make trade with other followers, and there is a huge potential for earning money from goverment contracts (because they also control those locations) and other businesses, in return they also do what has to be done when time has came, and make annual payments to the movement from time to time. Also every businessmen is being held responsible for number of funding "students" found in "houses of light" accoring to their income.

Also note that my history teacher at university "Necip Hablemitoglu" has been assasinated while he was writing a detailed book about gulen movement in 2002 (which has been completed by her wife later), book was about gulen movements infiltration into turkish intelligence agency (MIT). He predicted the incoming coup attempt in that book back in 2002.

Gulen is not only powerfull in turkey, he is also powerful in many countries from asia to africa, so he is a great asset for cia, high level officers are usually graduated from his schools at these countries and provide lots of intelligence to the agency, he can also overthrow goerments with one click of a button.

[Flash]

Years ago I met a businessman in particular who had become quite rich through a religious organisation and knew that they would make business amongst themselves uniquely. Bribes to government agents were rampant throughout Turkey, religious or not. That businessman had a very powerful support, everybody around knew it but the non religious Turks would not even dare mentioning how the religious movement works to foreigners (me). That powerful they were. My feeling when around was that of a stuffy dark movement where women do not have much to say, except wearing the scarf and veil for some, or being the cutie with no brain for others.

I did not understand at the time that it was related to Gulen's, but now I see the whole picture.

As for poor students, school is basically free in Turkey if not in private universities, but competition is extremely fierce to get into them. So many are refused. Then, political or business pressure is put on some universities for some students with appropriate political or business contacts. I also met people with officially real PhD but those had been obtained through bribery or political contacts, not through real schooling. Like presented thesis coming from US PhD students that had been translated into Turkish and defended as if it was the Turkish student real work. All this rubber stamped by the university.

A shame, because the studies in Turkey are very strong and this hampers the value of the degrees real hard working students receive.

We have a saying in French "a beau mentir qui vient de loin", which could translate into "can easily lie who comes from far away". Therefore, I do understand



As a Turkish citizen, i am glad to see people of avalon community (a.k.a people with open minds) can really see whats going on at the failed coup attempt in turkey.

But i have to tell that, most of these articles just don't show the real face of "Gulen" movement as much as we see in turkey. I have known people who joined (and left for good) Gulens cell houses (also known as "House of Light" ).

At those houses, they pick -mostly poor students, promising them free help for their education and in exchange they give them tasks like reading gulen's books and joining their meetings held by greater managers ( also known as "abi" which means "greater brother" ).

Thats where the brainwashing begins, they teach gulen as someone who can directly talk with Mohammad every night in his dreams, a messenger which is born every 100 years and everything he says is the direct order from Porphet Mohammad.

After a while those "greater brothers" pick potential militants, and move them to targeted goverment areas by helping them cheating in exams (i.e military enterance exams or goverment enterance exams, or even university exams). I am not saying this by reading things from the media but these things have been known for many years between turkish citizens but we were unable to do anything about it.

They also target "oppurtunist" businessmen by letting them to join their movement. Gulen followers strictly make trade with other followers, and there is a huge potential for earning money from goverment contracts (because they also control those locations) and other businesses, in return they also do what has to be done when time has came, and make annual payments to the movement from time to time. Also every businessmen is being held responsible for number of funding "students" found in "houses of light" accoring to their income.

Also note that my history teacher at university "Necip Hablemitoglu" has been assasinated while he was writing a detailed book about gulen movement in 2002 (which has been completed by her wife later), book was about gulen movements infiltration into turkish intelligence agency (MIT). He predicted the incoming coup attempt in that book back in 2002.

Gulen is not only powerfull in turkey, he is also powerful in many countries from asia to africa, so he is a great asset for cia, high level officers are usually graduated from his schools at these countries and provide lots of intelligence to the agency, he can also overthrow goerments with one click of a button.

[Baby Steps]

Dear Mahasamatman,
Thanks so much for your input!
In your view, was the Coup genuine-or some kind of fake job?
Best regards.

[mahasamatman]

Hi baby steps,

The first thought that came into my mind while watching the attacks (i was quite close to the ministry building where f16's bombed, no it wasn't a tactical nuclear bomb as some avalon topics mentioned :) ) that it was a fake attempt, but after seeing evidences and the scale of the operation, i don't think that this is a fake attempt but it is a premature attempt.

Also thinking about convincing more than 300 extremely high rank officers (and their relatives) for being labeled "traitor", and lose everything they got, at least sentenced for life (or possible death penalty) does not look logical to me.

There were going to be a high military meeting in the army agust where military officers promote or being retired at the end, and there has been rumors for a while that they will retire suspicious gulen follower high rank officers in that meeting, so it was their last shot to do something, and from turkey's previous coup experiences i can say that they could succeed if the timing was right. Coup attempts usually done at 3-4am while everyone is sleeping, by that way they can avoid civilian resistance, place soldiers to key positions easily and also they can take president and other goverment officials from their bed unguarded. But erdogan has been warned earlier that day so he could escape. i don't think they'd fail if they could capture him.

when i was saying it was premature i mean it was premature by few hours, because there are evidences that 15th july has been already set months ago. Just check that newspaper ad from "zaman", which is owned by gulen movement.
The name of the advertisement movies name is "scream of the silent" and it has been published exactly 9 months and 10 days ago which is also is the time required to a baby born. Also please note that at the end of the movie, you will see a "smiling" baby, "gulen" also means "smiling" in turkish.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYQuvB297Lk

Also there are lots of different calendars provided by gulen followers that mark july 15 as holiday (there were absolutely no holiday at that day). Here is a photo of a calendar from them: (check 15 "temmuz" in the calendar)

http://www.vatandanhaber.com/files/uploads/news/default/feto-trt-takviminde--29490b383c7c222afa8a.jpg
http://www.sgkrehberi.com/images/news/640x320/90866.jpg

Gulen movement is a bit like freemasons, they use lots of secret messages. i.e when i listen gulen's speeches, i just don't understand anything, but his followers understands all the references from his every word.

But did erdogan used this attempt at his advantage? absolutely. He is a true master when it comes to take advantage of really bad situations.

[Sophocles]

Top USA National Security Officials Admit Turkey Coup (http://journal-neo.org/2016/08/31/top-usa-national-security-officials-admit-turkey-coup/)

F. William Engdahl
31.08.2016
journal-neo.org

While the Obama Administration and the CIA officially cling to the fig leaf lie that US intelligence was innocent of any involvement in the failed July 15 coup d’ etat attempt by the CIA-run Fethullah Gülen organization in Turkey, the truth is coming out from senior US intelligence insiders themselves. It reflects a huge internal faction struggle within US leading circles in what by all accounts is shaping to be the most bizarre Presidential election year in American history.

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The first admission that US intelligence had their hand in the anti-Erdogan coup, a coup launched just days after Erdogan announced a major strategic shift away from NATO and towards Russia, came from Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski is one of the most senior members of the US intelligence establishment, a former Obama Presidential adviser and former National Security Council architect of the Jimmy Carter 1979 Mujahideen Afghanistan terror operations against the Soviet forces in that country.

In a Twitter tweet from his own blog, Brzezinski wrote a precis of a new article he wrote for The American Interest magazine. He writes, “The US backing of the attempted coup against the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a grave mistake that could deliver a major blow to the US reputation (http://www.awdnews.com/political/zbigniew-brzezinski-confirmed-us-backed-erdogan-opposition-to-commit-coup).” That’s definitely putting it mildly given what’s unfolding in Turkey since July 15.

Brzezinski went on to write, “Turkey was on the verge of reconsidering its foreign policy after failure in the Syria during the last five years, and the US miscalculation in supporting the coup and hosting its leader (Fethullah Gülen, now in CIA-arranged exile in Pennsylvania-w.e.) was so serious that it is no longer possible to put the blame on once-US-ally Turkey if it turns its back on US and rethink (sic) its policies.” He continues, “A potential Russia-Turkey-Iran coalition would create an opportunity to solve the Syrian crisis. If Erdogan had the smallest bit of wisdom, he should have come to the understanding that he could not make an independent credibility with the help of some ‘decayed’ Arab countries (http://www.awdnews.com/political/zbigniew-brzezinski-confirmed-us-backed-erdogan-opposition-to-commit-coup),” no doubt referring to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the prime financiers of the Syrian terror war against Assad since 2011.

Brzezinski, who together with Henry Kissinger was one of the foremost US foreign policy strategists of the postwar period, the founding Executive Director of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission, and one who still today presumably retains Top Secret clearance access to US intelligence reports, was expressing his fury at the utter incompetence of US intelligence in managing the Turkey relationship. Notably, the person in the US State Department directly responsible for not only the disastrous US coup in February, 2014 in Ukraine, but also for Turkey, is the hapless neo-con perpetual warrior-ess, Victoria “**** the EU” Nuland, wife of neo-con Robert Kagan.

Brzezinski’s candid critique was followed up by an even more detailed expose of US intelligence ties to Fethullah Gülen, charged by the Turkish government with treason and backing the July 15 coup. In a guest article in the EU online mgazine EurActiv.com dated 17 August, 2016, Arthur H. Hughes confirms the intimate links between Gülen and the CIA, noting that “Gülen fled to the US with the assistance of the diplomat Morton Abramovitz, CIA agents Graham Fuller and George Fidas, and the above-mentioned Fr. Alexander Karloutsos (http://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/will-ankara-take-aim-at-patriarch-bartholomew/).”

Gülen CIA friend Bartholomew I

Hughes’ article is a bombshell in many respects, and most definitely in his detailing of the intimate ties between the CIA, Gülen and the current Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, current Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch. Hughes described the above-mentioned Father Alexander Karloutsos:

“…one of the members of the American-Israeli lobby in the Constantinople Patriarchate is Father Alexander Karloutsos, Public Affairs Officer close to Archbishop Demetrios (of America-w.e.). Thanks to his ties with high-level officials and Greek-American billionaires, he is basically the only person who controls the money flows from the US to the Phanar (the Greek Orthodox part of Istanbul-w.e.), and that gives him wide possibilities of exerting pressure upon the Ecumenical Patriarchate. On the other hand, Karloutsos is also in good relations with former CIA Director George Tenet, and with the preacher Fethullah Gülen cooperating with the American intelligence (http://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/will-ankara-take-aim-at-patriarch-bartholomew/).”

George Tenet, a close ally of the Clinton political machine is a Greek-American former head of CIA during the time of Bill Clinton and also George W. Bush. The Clintons are both on record praising Fethullah Gülen. It seems to be a cozy network of CIA-Gülen-Constantinople Patriarchate-Clintons, all financed with “money from Greek-American billionaires.”

Arthur H. Hughes is not a casual commentator on events in Turkey and the Middle East. He was US Ambassador to Yemen in the 1990’s during the Clinton Presidency, then Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asia, and was Deputy Chief of Mission in Tel Aviv. His linking of Gülen to the CIA and to the Constantinople Patriarchate points to one of the least-public and most influential covert CIA-run networks in the world, the anti-Moscow Orthodox Patriarchate of Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople. Hughes suggests that if Erdogan and the Turkish government are serious about dealing with future coup threats, they should put the Constintanople Patriarchate under the magnifying glass.

As I’ve documented in my book, The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy, Graham E. Fuller and George Fidas, both decades-long senior CIA officials managed to secure an extraordinary permanent residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, over the loud formal objections of the US State Department, in 1999, when Gülen was about to be charged by the Turkish authorities for inciting treason.

Most recently, Fuller felt compelled to write on his blog that, indeed he did help Gülen obtain a US green card, but that no, Gülen was not behind the failed July 15 coup. However Turkish reports place Fuller and another senior CIA ally, Henri J. Barkey, at a luxury hotel on one of the Princes’ Islands in the Sea of Marmara, some twenty minutes from Istanbul the night of the failed coup. In a subsequent appearance at a Washington think tank forum held by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a neo-con address whose chairman is former CIA director, neo-con James Woolsey III, Barkey and his host tried to make a feeble joke about his presence in Istanbul the night of the coup and his ties to Gülen (http://www.defenddemocracy.org/events/after-the-failed-coup-prospects-for-turkish-stability/).

For once, Brzezinski is right.

The CIA-Gülen coup d’etat attempt to topple Erdogan after his turn towards rapprochement with Moscow was “a grave mistake.” The consequences, aside from a massive crackkdown on Gülen networks and media inside Turkey, include an open dialogue of Erdogan and the Turkish government of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım with Russia and now with Iran, about a “solution” to the Syrian war that would include Bashar al-Assad as at least a transition figure.

The Erdogan pivot East since the failed CIA coup has forced the Pentagon to quietly remove its nuclear warheads from Turkey’s Incirlik airbase near the Syrian border to Romania (http://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/us-moves-nuclear-weapons-from-turkey-to-romania/). At the same time, Turkey’s Prime Minister on August 20 stated to the media that Russia could possibly use Turkey’s Incirlik Airbase if necessary, something that certainly produced more acute gas pains in Langley, Foggy Bottom (the more than fitting name for the US State Department headquarters), and the Obama White House (http://sputniknews.com/military/20160820/1044471851/incirlik-base-russia.html).

July 15 may go down in history as one of the most decisive defeats of American global power projection, of the so-called New World Order of David Rockefeller and friends. If so, not a minute too soon for the prospect of a more peaceful world.

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook (http://journal-neo.org/).”

Source (http://journal-neo.org/2016/08/31/top-usa-national-security-officials-admit-turkey-coup/)

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Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted US backing of the coup against the TUrkish president Erdogan was a grave mistake that could deliver a major blow to the US reputation.

Source (http://www.awdnews.com/political/zbigniew-brzezinski-confirmed-us-backed-erdogan-opposition-to-commit-coup)

[Ewan]

That Brzezinski tweet may be manufactured, it doesn't appear in the timeline - unless deleted.

[Sophocles]

Turkey Coup July 2016

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A film by Tsargrad TV (where the philosopher Alexander Dugin (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?92460-Alexander-Dugin-on-Red-Ice-Radio-The-Fourth-Political-Theory&p=1088536&highlight=alexander+dugin#post1088536) is the Chief Editor)