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| 2016-08-06 | |||
Turkey Ruling Party Orders Clean-Up after Coup Attempt
In a circular signed by the party's deputy leader Hayati Yazici, he ordered an "urgent clean-up in the party organisation" to eliminate those linked with the Fethullah Terrorist Organisation -- a name Ankara gives for the movement blamed for the July 15 failed putsch, Anadolu news agency reported. The party decree also said the operation should take place "without giving any room for trouble or gossip within the party." Twelve out of 14 journalist suspects from the Zaman daily were remanded in custody, Anadolu reported on Friday, less than a week after six others were arrested. Turkey: Dollar bills seen as evidence of coup-plotter links [Ynet] After raiding a home and business owned by someone suspected of loyalties to a banned Muslim cleric, police listed the incriminating evidence they found: two shotguns, a pistol, ammunition, a fake identity card -- and three $1 bills. The serial numbers, they noted, all began with the letter F. In one of the odder twists in Turkey's failed July 15 coup and the subsequent crackdown, authorities are citing U.S. banknotes -- and $1 bills in particular -- as evidence that people are followers of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Muslim cleric whom Turkey accuses of orchestrating the coup. Former Istanbul governor arrested over failed coup attempt [Hurriyet] Legal sources said Mutlu and nine other suspects, including governors, a deputy governor and three district governors, were arrested for being members of the Gülen movement. Mutlu, who served four years as Istanbul governor until 2014 – a period which included a police crackdown on the Gezi protests under his watch – when he was reassigned to Ankara to become an Interior Ministry civil servant, denied having ties to FETÖ during his interrogation. He was suspended from his position on July 17. Hungary weighs Turkish request to shut 'coup-linked institutions' [AlAhram] Hungary is considering a request from Turkey to shut local institutions Ankara suspects of having links to what it calls the terrorist group behind last month's thwarted coup attempt, the foreign ministry said on Friday. Gulen's "Hizmet" (Service) movement runs some 2,000 educational establishments in about 160 countries, teaching a secular curriculum in English. Ankara suspects these schools and other Gulen-linked businesses help fund the movement. Kazakhstan announced earlier on Friday it would expel any Turkish teachers there found to have links with Gulen. Somalia has closed two Gulen schools and a hospital and Turkish pressure to shut down Gulen-affiliated institutions has been reported from countries as diverse as Germany, Kenya and Indonesia. Hungary's foreign ministry said Turkey had requested the closure of "some institutions and organisations operating in Hungary which it says are linked with and provide intellectual and financial support to the terrorist organisation potentially associated with the coup attempt". "Hungarian authorities will take measures against the institutions in question only if any connection between the institutions and terrorism is proved unequivocally," it said. Turkish Intel agencies can be coordinated under same roof: Erdoğan President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said all of Turkey’s intelligence agencies could be coordinated under the same roof, as he commented on the National Intelligence Agency’s (MİT) actions on the night of the July 15 failed coup attempt, believed to be masterminded by the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ). “All the intelligence agencies, the MİT, the police and the gendarmerie, can be coordinated under the same roof. There is a process to bring the police and the gendarmerie under the control of the Interior Ministry. Thus, we can coordinate intelligence under the same roof,” Erdoğan told state-run TRT television late on Aug. 4, adding that the aforementioned plan had already been presented to him.
No US planning, support, knowledge in coup attempt in Turkey: Ambassador
“I continue to be deeply disturbed and offended by the accusations without a shred of fact in so much of the commentary in this country that the United States government was involved in this illegal coup attempt or must have known about this illegal coup attempt, and 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,” Bass told a group of journalist in Istanbul on Aug. 4. “Frankly, if we would have had knowledge we would have told the Turkish government about it immediately, just as we bring to the attention of this government information about threats that it or its citizens face from terrorist organizations operating in Turkey,” the envoy said. Turkey, Kazakhstan discuss closure of Gulen’s schools Turkey and Kazakhstan discussed the issue of closure of Gulen’s schools in Kazakhstan, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a joint press conference in Ankara with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, TRT Haber reported Aug. 5. Erdogan said that currently there are 33 educational institutions of Fethullah Gulen in Kazakhstan. He added that the ministries of education of the two countries will take important steps to address this issue. | |||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-08-06 21:16 |
| #2 "We are going to have a Frank and earnest conversation. I'm going to be Frank and you're going to be earnest..." |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-08-06 20:23 |
| #1 The serial numbers, they noted, all began with the letter F. The sixth letter of the alphabet. Also the first letter in "Frank", a known American crank and critic of Yippy. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-08-06 10:33 |