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The Grand Turk
Minister: PKK-Gulenists to manipulate Nov 1 elections in Turkey
2015-10-07
[Hurriyet Daily News] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's interior minister has suggested that followers of the U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) are collaborating to manipulate the results of the upcoming Nov. 1 elections, alleging that they also did so during the June 7 parliamentary elections.

Interior Minister Selami Altinok also said they would soon release a list outlining which awards they have designated for citizens who provide denunciations about members and leaders of the PKK.

"We very clearly saw such associations before the June 7 elections, too," Altinok told the state-run Anadolu Agency on Oct. 6, when he was reminded of recent remarks by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
who said the "parallel state" and the PKK have been in collaboration.

Followers of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) ally-turned-foe Fethullah Gulen, known as Gulenists, are alleged to have established a "parallel state" within the state and have been charged with wiretapping hundreds of thousands of state officials through operations by members employed in the judiciary and police.
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