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The Grand Turk
Turkey issues arrest warrant for Gulen over killing of Russian envoy
2018-04-03
[ALMASDARNEWS] Ankara on Monday ordered the arrest of Islamic holy man Fethullah Gülen
... 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...
along with seven members of his Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) over the killing of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov, who was assassinated in 2016, the Yeni Safak newspaper reported.

According to the newspaper, the FETO top figures Serif Ali Tekalan and Emre Uslu Gulen were also among those, sought to be placed in durance vile
You have the right to remain silent...
Russian former Ambassador to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
Andrei Karlov was shot by an off-duty Ottoman Turkish police officer, Mevlut Mert Altintas, on December 19, 2016, at the opening of an art gallery exhibition "Russia from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka through the eyes of a traveler" in Ankara. The attacker was killed at the scene by the police.

Though the investigation is still ongoing, the Ottoman Turkish side has repeatedly voiced suspicions that the Gulen movement, considered by Ankara to be a terrorist organization and accused by the authorities of criminal masterminding the 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey, is linked to the attack.

Besides the Karlov case, Turkey accuses Gulen of a coup attempt that occurred in July 2016. The coup was quickly suppressed by government forces, but over 240 people were killed and an estimated 2,000 were maimed.
An Nahar adds:
The warrants were issued a day ahead of a visit to Ankara by President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
for talks with Ottoman Turkish counterpart Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
aimed at bolstering the growing Moscow-Ankara relationship.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has said the murder was a plot carried out by the group of Gulen, a U.S.-based Islamic preacher who stands accused of staging the 2016 coup bid. But Moscow has yet to echo this.

Serif Ali Tekalan headed a university linked to Gulen in Istanbul and now heads the Texas-based North American University (NAU).

It was not immediately clear if any of the suspects are currently in Turkey.

Gulen, who denies any link to the coup, has been hit with multiple Ottoman Turkish arrest warrants. But so far the United States has yet to budge in response to Ottoman Turkish demands for his extradition.

Anadolu said that the investigation had found links between the gunman Altintas and Gulen.

According to the news agency, nine people are already in jug awaiting trial over the killing including television producer Hayreddin Aydinbas, the organizer of the photo exhibition Mustafa Timur Ozkan and former coppers.

There were fears the killing would again derail relations that had only been put back on track that summer with a reconciliation deal after the November 2015 shooting down by Turkey of a Russian war plane over the Syrian border.

But relations have since gone from strength to strength, with Putin's upcoming visit expected to signal the strategic importance of the relationship to both sides.
Posted by:Fred

#2  "Gulen turned me into a newt!"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-04-03 08:45  

#1  I figure that Erdogan blames Gulen for stopped up toilets and rainy days too.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-04-03 08:01  

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