[217.218.67.231] The United Arab Emirates financed a high-profile coup attempt last year in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and paid about three billion dollars to the putschists, a columnist in a Turkish daily has claimed.
Mehmet Acet, a columnist for Yeni Safak daily, said on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu meant the United Arab Emirates when he recently hinted at a Moslem country that spent billions to topple the Turkish government in the coup in July 2016.
Cavusoglu said in recent remarks that a foreign country funneled money to the putschists while making efforts to topple President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
"We know that a country provided $3 billion in financial support for the coup attempt in Turkey and exerted efforts to topple the government in illegal ways. On top of that, it is a Moslem country," said the Turkish foreign minister, as quoted by Acet.
Acet elaborated on his claims in an interview to the Turkish media, saying sources in the Turkish Foreign Ministry had confirmed that the country behind the coup was indeed the United Arab Emirates.
"The minister did not name the country. However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
sources from the foreign ministry have confirmed that it was the UAE," Acet told Daily Sabah newspaper.
Other sources have also claimed that a media magnet close to the government in Abu Dhabi had indeed transferred money to Turkey weeks before the coup was carried out. They said the money had been funneled to elements loyal to Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, a holy man based in the United States who is accused by Ankara of criminal masterminding the coup attempt.