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| Former AKP deputy detained in major ‘parallel state’ operation | ||
| 2015-12-13 | ||
| [Hurriyet] A former Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy was detained early on Dec. 11 in Istanbul as a part of a fresh wave of operations targeting the alleged "parallel state" of sympathizers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen. Counter-terrorism police conducted operations in 10 provinces across ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... including Istanbul, Ankara and Sanliurfa, and a number of detentions were reported. Former AKP Izmir deputy Ilhan Isbilen was detained in Istanbul and was taken for a health check. He is expected to be sent to Ankara. Isbilen had served as the general manager of daily Zaman and Samanyolu TV, outlets known as being close to Gulen. He had resigned from the AKP after the Dec. 17-25 corruption operations and stood as an independent candidate in the June 7 general election. Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... police also sought to detain the medical doctor of Gulen, but he was not at home in Istanbul's Beylikduzu district when they arrived. Detention warrant for Akin Ipek
The suspects included the former editor-in-chief of Daily Zaman Ekrem Dumanli, the CEO of the Koza Ipek group Akin Ipek, Samanyolu TV head Hidayet Karaca, who is already under arrest, and Fatih University rector Professor Serif Ali Tekalan. Forty-three of the suspects are reported to have been abroad when the police arrived to detain them. The massive prove of Dec. 11 came a day after a Turkish government-backed lawsuit has been filed against Gulen in the United States. A lawyer hired by the Turkish government, Robert Amsterdam, provided a copy of the filing in the U.S. district court in Pennsylvania. The lawsuit alleges that Gulen orchestrated human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuses from his residence in Pennsylvania against three men in Turkey. It alleges that Gulen ordered followers among the police and judiciary to plant evidence against the three men and build false criminal cases that led to their imprisonment. The Turkish government claims Gulen has been running a parallel state by getting his followers into key positions in state institutions, including the police and judiciary. It has labelled Gulen's movement a terrorist organization. Gulen has denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! The suit dated Dec. 7 alleges that Gulen targeted the three men because they were part of a rival spiritual movement critical of his teachings.
The authorities now refer to his group, which calls itself Hizmet (Service) as the Fethullah Terror Organization (FETO), and accuse it of trying to overthrow the government. But Gulen supporters ridicule the claims, saying their only crime is to oppose Erdogan and press for their vision of combing Islam and progressive values. The current campaign against Gulen dates back to December 2013 when the government blamed him for sensational corruption allegations against Erdogan's inner circle and has since accused the aging preacher, believed to be 74, of trying to overthrow the authorities. | ||
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