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The Grand Turk
Turkey's purge: 31 detained, 40 arrested, Interior Minister resigns, and the Gulen movement was founded by CIA
2016-09-01
Turkish interior minister quits, says PM, after string of attacks

[ALMASDARNEWS] Turkey’s Interior Minister Efkan Ala has resigned, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Wednesday, after a string of bombings and attacks blamed on Islamic State and Kurdish insurgents that prompted public criticism.

The Interior Ministry portfolio has been filled by Labour Minister Suleyman Soylu, the prime minister said in a statement which was broadcast on Turkish television stations.

Turkish judge seeks asylum in Greece

[AlAhram] A 48-year-old Turkish judge has requested political asylum in Greece, claiming persecution by the government of President Tayyip Erdogan, the Athens News Agency said on Tuesday.

The Greek coast guard said only that a Turkish national had been arrested on Tuesday after being rescued along with six migrants from a boat off the Greek island of Chios. It did not give the nationality of the migrants. The coast guard and police would not comment specifically on the agency report.

Former AKP lawmaker and 30 others detained, 40 police arrested over Gülen links

[Hurriyet] A former lawmaker from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been detained over suspected links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).
Given that Fethullah is the gentleman's first name, this is like talking about the dreaded Georgeists...
Lawyer İdris Şahin, a former AKP deputy from the Central Anatolian province of Çankırı and deputy chairman of the constitutional commission, was detained in an operation launched by the Çankırı police’s counter-smuggling and organized crime department. Searches were carried out in Şahin’s house and office.

Meanwhile, a total of 30 people were detained in an operation against FETÖ in the Central Anatolian province of Konya early on Aug. 31.

The Konya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation over the failed seizure of the government
...perhaps that has some sort of meaning in the original Turkish, but I suspect not -- the Communists used to proclaim all sorts of nonsense during their purges, as I recall...
and a total of 90 detention warrants were issued as part of the probe.

Konya-based operations were carried out simultaneously in 22 provinces by counter-smuggling and organized crime department units. Operations were conducted at a total of 90 addresses, which resulted in 30 detentions.

Teachers and professors who were suspended after the coup bid were among the detained, as well as the Gülen movement’s suspected provincial and district “imams” and accountants. Police officers, who previously were on duty in Konya and now assigned to different provinces, were also detained in the operation.

Searches were continuing to apprehend the suspects who couldn’t be found at their addresses.
Here's hoping they've managed to escape, or at least to find secure hiding places.
Books written by U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen were found in the searches conducted at the addresses, Doğan News Agency reported.

Elsewhere, a total of 40 police officers, including high ranking officials, were arrested over links to Gülenists in the western province of İzmir on Aug. 31. The police officers were arrested for “being members of an armed terrorist organization,” Anadolu Agency reported.

Gülen movement ‘founded by CIA like the Mormons and Scientologists,’ says Turkish prosecutor
Utterly insane.
[Hurriyet] A Turkish prosecutor probing the financial links of the Fethullah Gülen movement has said the organizational structure of the group is the same as the Mormon Church and the Church of Scientology in the United States, claiming that all three groups were founded by U.S. intelligence.

The CIA organizes these sects as non-governmental organizations in order “to make changes to society,” read the indictment prepared Zafer Dur, a prosecutor in the Aegean province of İzmir.

The system that the Gülenists have built over years up in the education, heath, political, technology and culture sectors aims at the same thing as these churches, Dur said.

He claimed that it would not be possible for a primary school graduate, 75-year-old Fethullah Gülen, who has been living in the U.S. since 1999, to have built up such a large organization and infiltrated vital state organizations through his own efforts and abilities.

“Without international backing, Gülen could not have opened schools in 160 countries,” Dur added.
But his imperial majesty, the wise and all-seeing neo-Ottoman Sultan Recep I was best friends with this evil idiot for so many years. How could this be?
The prosecutor also established a link between the arrest of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) leader in 1999 and Gülen moving to the U.S. in the same year.

“Investigative journalists have been reporting that [Gülenists] worked as contractors for foreign intelligence services such as the CIA, MI6 and BND and infiltrated into the intelligence services of other countries acting in the name of the services they worked for,” read the indictment.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  #5. I would say its more like the Nazi movement in the early 1930s,
Posted by: Glairong Sforza7574   2016-09-01 20:04  

#6  Neither was L. Ron Hubbard, but nobody wanted to talk with him anyway.

The CIA got rid of him when he threatened to talk. Now Hillary uses that very same goon squad to get rid of political problems.
Posted by: gorb   2016-09-01 13:33  

#5  I think they are re-enacting Stalin's Soviet Gulag model of political repression Frank.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-09-01 12:27  

#4  at some point, the arrested/imprisoned will be larger than the rest. At what point does the Turkish state (economy, culture, lifestyle) degrade enough?
Posted by: Frank G   2016-09-01 08:46  

#3  Investigativejournalists have been reporting that [Gülenists] worked for foreign intelligence services such as the CIA, MI6 and BND and infiltrated into the intelligence services of other countries

They're everywhere, man! They're more pervasive than the Juice! More powerful than a speeding locomotive!

What's next? We'll find out all of them are Juice?
Posted by: Bobby   2016-09-01 07:32  

#2  Joseph Smith was unavailable for comment.

Neither was L. Ron Hubbard, but nobody wanted to talk with him anyway.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-09-01 07:22  

#1  Gülen movement founded by CIA like the Mormons

CIA has a time-machine?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-09-01 03:43  

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