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Turkey gives list of 84 The Fethullah Gülen movement members to US

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Turkey has given the United States a list of 84 members of the FETÖ that it wants American authorities to extradite, the nation’s foreign minister said.

Speaking to Turkish reporters at Ankara’s embassy in Washington on Nov. 20, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said he delivered the list to his American counterpart, Mike Pompeo, and White House national security advisor John Bolton. Turkey’s chief diplomat said he did not receive any “assurances” after meeting with Pompeo and Bolton, according to Hurriyet Daily News.

“But we have given this list of the people that we request the US to extradite,” Chavushoghlu said.

President Donald Trump “asked Erdogan to send that list and I gave that list to both Pompeo and ambassador Bolton,” he said.

Earlier, Çavuşoğlu and Pompeo held a 45-minute meeting at the State Department, where they discussed bilateral and regional issues as well as the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Turning to Khashoggi’s killing, Çavuşoğlu said there are unanswered questions and Turkey is insisting that details regarding the murder be clarified, including who ordered Khashoggi’s murder.

“Many countries do not want to harm their relations with Saudi Arabia because of the Khashoggi murder. Neither do we. However, the murder must be uncovered,” he said.

Çavuşoğlu added that Turkey does not view the Khashoggi incident as a political matter.

 

Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen, a pious Muslim or a radical Islamist?

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Illustration of Fethullah Gulen by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The cleric should go home and face the music in Turkey

By Abraham Wagner,

Washington Times: Controversial Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen is back in the news following a diplomatic standoff between Turkey and the United States. On Oct. 8, the U.S. mission in Turkey announced a decision “to suspend all non-immigrant visa services at all U.S. diplomatic facilities in Turkey,” in retaliation for the arrest of a Drug Enforcement Administration liaison in Turkey with suspected ties to Mr. Gulen. Turkey has answered in kind by freezing the issuance of new visas.

The media spotlight on the deteriorating relationship between the two allies, however, misses the point: the self-exiled imam’s history of corruption and radicalism. Mr. Gulen’s actual record deserves the utmost scrutiny, and should not be overshadowed by the unfolding diplomatic intrigue.

The website of the cleric’s Gulen Movement, or Hizmet Movement, bills its leader as “a dedicated, pious Muslim,” who has “devoted his life to bringing peace to the world.” Yet U.S. State Department cables, divulged by WikiLeaks, reveal that Foggy Bottom, which has closely monitored Mr. Gulen since 2003, describes the preacher as “a ‘radical Islamist’ whose moderate message cloaks a more sinister and radical agenda.”

While in the United States, Mr. Gulen has received hundreds of millions in American taxpayer dollars to fund his vast network of charter schools, which have been under state-level and federal investigations for alleged, yet dire financial malfeasance in Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio and elsewhere.

In 2011, The New York Times reported that in Texas, two Gulen schools gave $50 million to Gulen-connected contractors, despite the fact that other contractors offered lower bids. Similar malfeasance and shell games has been reported elsewhere.

The curriculum and administration of Gulen schools are also suspect, with former teachers attesting to being fired and immediately replaced by new arrivals from Turkey — predominantly young men, with no English or teaching skills. Allegations have also surfaced that curricula, taught to American children, are surreptitiously comprised of Gulen’s particular brand of radical Islam.

Gagrule Video Who is Turkish Imam Fethullah Gülen, Who support him, how he recruits U.S. charter schools

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Turkey coup: What is Gulen movement and what does it want?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for last week’s bloody attempted coup.

Suspected Gulenists are now being purged in their thousands in a wave of arrests and sackings and Mr Erdogan has declared a state of emergency.

But what do we know about the movement, and what does it want?

Gulenists incessantly advertise Bill Clinton’s speech at the Third Annual Friendship Dinner organized by the Turkish Cultural Center of New York (a Gulenist organization) at the Waldorf Astoria on September 25, 2008.  The video of Clinton’s brief speech has been publicized on the internet by several Gulenist organizations,

and has become one of the Gulenists’ favorite defense weapons.  Whenever anything critical of the Gulen Movement or Gulen charter schools has appeared in the press, Gulenists have touted this speech as a full-fledged endorsement that they insist must instantly dispel any doubts ever raised about Fethullah Gulen and his followers.  The weight that Gulenists put on this speech seems quite out of proportion to its actual content; Clinton mentions Gulen only once in the entire speech, and never praises him directly.

Turkey: US-based Turkish Imam, Fethullah Gülen, 121 others face life in jail

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U.S.-based Turkish Imam, Fethullah Gülen

U.S.-based Turkish Imam, Fethullah Gülen

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The first court hearing was held in Istanbul on Feb. 1 in a case into the alleged creation of a terrorist organization, with U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen as one of the main defendants, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Turkish government accuse Gülen of forming and heading a terrorist organization to topple the government, with alleged followers working as insiders in the police, the judiciary, and other state institutions.

A total of 122 defendants, including journalist Emre Uslu and former police chiefs Yurt Atayün and Ömer Köse, will be tried based on a 10,529-page indictment prepared by Istanbul Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor İrfan Fidan.

The 122 defendants are charged with “attempting to topple the government of the Republic of Turkey and preventing it from fully or partially conducting its duties.” Some 48 of them – including Gülen, Uslu, Atayün and Köse – are also charged with “obtaining and revealing confidential state data for political espionage purposes” and face aggravated life sentences.

Gülen, Uslu and Atayün are also charged with “forming or heading an armed terrorist organization,” “violating the right to privacy,” “obtaining personal data illegally,” “forgery of official documents” and “effacing, concealing or altering criminal evidence.” These charges carry sentences of up to 67 years, while other suspects in the case face jail sentences of varying lengths.

Some 968 people are named as complainants in the indictment, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, a number of ministers, the National Intelligence Agency (MİT) undersecretary, and a number of other high-level political figures.

Source: hurriyetdailynews

February/01/2016

Turkey: New indictment seeks lifetime imprisonment for Fethullah Gülen, others

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An indictment against 122 suspects, including U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen as one of the prime suspects, has been prepared in an investigation into the alleged creation of a fake terrorist group called Selam Tevhid, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Oct 26.

İrfan Fidan, Istanbul’s deputy chief public prosecutor, prepared an indictment regarding 122 suspects in the investigation into the fake terrorist group called Selam Tevhid and sent the indictment to Istanbul’s 14th Court of Serious Crimes, which will look into the indictment and decide whether or not to accept the investigation as a trial in the forthcoming 15 days.

Among the key suspects in the investigation, Gülen, journalist Emre Uslu and former chief of police Yurt Atayün are facing two aggravated life sentences and up to 67.5 years of jail time.

Gülen, Uslu and Atayün, as the main suspects in the case, are charged with “forming or managing an armed organization,” “obtaining confidential data that must be confidential for political spying purposes,” “attempting to topple the government of the Turkish Republic or preventing it from fully or partially conducting its duties,” “disrespecting the right to privacy,” “obtaining personal data illegally,” “forgery of official documents” and “effacing, concealing or altering criminal evidence.”

The other 119 suspects also face time in prison for similar charges.

The indictment, which was 10,529 pages long, also demanded the arrestment of Gülen and Uslu in absentia. Gülen has been self-exiled in the U.S. since the 1990s.

A total of 968 people, including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and National Intelligence Agency (MİT) head Hakan Fidan, as well as a number of ministers and journalists, were listed as complainants in the indictment.

October/26/2015

Source: hurriyetdailynews.com

Ozgur Cengiz, expose US-based Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen’s schools worldwide

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Gulen-sermonGulen’s Hizmet has no formal structure, no visible organisation and no official membership, yet it may have grown into the world’s biggest Muslim network. BBC

Its name means “service” and it promotes work for the common good, with advocates saying they simply work together in a loosely affiliated alliance inspired by the message of Imam Gulen.

Gulen Schools Worldwide
Ozgur Cengiz, With the growth of Gulen schools worldwide. We had requests from around the world to start a second blog on the Gulen Turkish Schools worldwide. From Mexico to Iraq, and Africa to Afghanistan we will post the news stories and as usual amuse you at the same time. To contrast and compare we invite you to

http://www.gulenschoolsworldwide.blogspot.ca
www.gulencharterschoolsUSA.blogspot.com
http://www.charterschoolwatchdog.com
http://www.charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com

Turkey: Prosecutors deepen investigation into claims against Fethullah Gülen

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Nurettin Kurt ANKARA

The Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office is again investigating all previous allegations and cases against Fethullah Gülen, a U.S.-based Islamic scholar and erstwhile ally of the n_67124_1government, including cases in which he was acquitted.

Prosecutors from the crimes against the constitutional order bureau are investigating cases that were either dropped or resulted in an acquittal for Gülen.

The prosecutor’s office is looking into claims that the scholar “founded an organization with the aim of dissolving and plotting a coup against the Turkish Republic.”

Gülen is accused by prosecutors of “attempting to replace the secular state with an Islamic dictatorship ruled by shariah law.”

Prosecutors also say he has brainwashed young people, who attend schools of the Gülen movement, along with placing members of his movement in the Education Ministry and Police Department and even the military thanks to his foundations, schools and prep schools. Judicial officials also believe he has maintained his religious structure by financing it with suspicious sources.

His members have also joined political parties by “pretending to be modern,” according to prosecutors, who also accuse his followers of infiltrating other state organs, local governments and NGOs.

After a series of run-ins with the Turkish judicial system, Gülen moved to the United States in 1998.

Charges against Gülen were dropped in 1999, but Gülen insisted that the trial go ahead. Eventually, he was acquitted in 2006 of charges that he called his supporters to subvert the state. The Supreme Court of Appeals’ ninth bureau subsequently approved the not guilty verdict.

May/29/2014

source: hurriyetdailynews

CIA’s Favorite Channel, New York Times, Lobbies for Mullah Fethullah Gulen

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By: Sibel Edmonds | May 5, 2014 BFP

Last week Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey would officially request the extradition of US-based Mullah Fethullah Gulen- a Turkish preacher in Pennsylvania with a $20+ billion network, whose followers have 0505_SEPostbeen accused of trying to eliminate PM Erdogan’s government.
The New York Times began parading various agenda-driven analysts and experts, showcasing Gulen-connected figures, and attacking Turkey’s Erdogan in a one-sided lobbying effort. Before I go any further, allow me to illustrate the New York Times’ vehement, bold and one-sided defense of Gulen with verbatim quotes [All Emphasis Mine]:
Mr. Erdogan’s Islamist government and the supporters of Gulen, who promotes a moderate, pro-Western brand of Sunni Islam that appeals to many well-educatedand professional Turks.
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I know our regular readers and supporters here at Boiling Frogs Post don’t need the bold emphases to explain the propaganda with its carefully picked words. For those who are not familiar with our extensive coverage of Mullah Gulen (See here, here, here, here and here), take notice of how Erdogan’s government is being characterized with one word, Erdogan’s Islamist government- a word often used and highlighted by Western propaganda outlets, aka mainstream media, with negative connotations and in close association with global terrorism. Now, please pay attention to all the false positive adjectives and characterization used by NYT to present Mullah Fethullah Gulen: Moderate, Pro-Western, Well-Educated, Professional. Oh, golly- Who is the Mullah here?!
You see, this is such a classic with the US government-fed propaganda outlets, aka US mainstream media. They first set the tone based on the objectives handed to them by their bosses. In this case: The CIA and the State Department. The readers, the uninformed readers, are pointed towards the intended false direction: An Islamist Government versus a moderate pro-Western man with well-educated and professional followers.
Let’s continue [All Emphasis Mine]:
“This extradition request has no legal basis,” said Ergun Ozbudun, a professor of law at Istanbul Sehir University, noting the considerable difficulty surrounding extradition requests even when suspects are charged with serious crimes. “The request for Fethullah Gulen’s extradition therefore would be a political one, and I don’t think would produce any results.”
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Lawyers for Mr. Gulen, who has permanent resident status in the United States, agreed. “There is neither an investigation nor an arrest warrant issued by court in place to submit to the U.S. authorities,” said Nurullah Albayrak, an Istanbul lawyer who represents Mr. Gulen. “This is not something that political will can decide.”
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A Gulen-affiliated group in New York, the Alliance for Shared Values, on Tuesday denounced Mr. Erdogan’s move, saying, “The prime minister’s talk about demanding the extradition of Mr. Gulen, when there are no charges or legal case against him, is a clear indication of political persecution and harassment.”
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NYT picks one pro-Gulen legal expert, one lawyer who represents Mullah Gulen, and Gulen’s own organization, and establishes the extradition request as political with no legal basis. Now, let me go over this article for the fifth time, and see whether NYT showcases any so-called legal experts from the other side- one that puts forth the legal basis for this extradition request. I’m looking, looking, looking, and ooops: I have reached the end of the lobby-propaganda piece, and there is not a single legal opinion or analysis from the other side! How amazing is that?!
Finally, after showcasing Mullah Gulen’s confident denial of all documented accusations against him, without showcasing a single analyst or legal expert for the other side, the New York Times concludes its propaganda-lobby piece with the following paragraph:
In general, for the United States to approve an extradition request from another country, the person must be accused of a crime recognized in both jurisdictions, and there must be a reasonable belief that the person did commit the crime. It was not clear whether Turkey’s request would satisfy either requirement.
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Now that we have established this editorial by the New York Times clearly as a one-sided lobby and propaganda piece for Mullah Gulen, ask yourself the following questions: Why did the New York Times jump to defend the Gülen Movement and the controversial Mullah? Whose interests is the New York Times really representing here? Why?
You see, this propaganda-lobby piece follows another equally propaganda-lobby piece that was published by the Washington Post a few months back:
In January this year, The Washington Post dutifully provided a platform for three outspoken Israel Lobbyists who are jointly calling on the Obama Administration to overthrow the current Turkish Administration. You heard it right. Morton Abramowitz, Eric Edelman and Blaise Misztal jointly penned a hysteria-reeked article to declare Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan a despot, and a great threat to democracy and U.S. interests. Let’s provide a few excerpts from this propaganda-ridden article :
Whatever his achievements over the past decade, Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is destroying his country’s parlous democracy. That is a profound problem for Turks and Turkey’s Western allies. Staying silent, out of fear that speaking out would harm some short-term interests, risks Turkey’s longer-term stability.
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Turkey’s democratic decline creates a pressing dilemma for the United States. Erdogan’s current course would take Turkey from an imperfect democracy to an autocracy. Such a fate for a close ally and NATO member would have profound implications for our partnership, the United States’ beleaguered credibility and the prospects for democracy in the region.
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U.S. policymakers should lay aside their reluctance to confront the disastrous impact of Erdogan’s dictatorial tendencies and remind the Turkish leader of the importance the United States attaches to Turkey’s political stability and democratic vitality. Particularly as their influence is greater than it appears…
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Erdogan is doing great harm to Turkey’s democracy. The United States should make clear, privately and publicly, that his extreme actions and demagoguery are subverting Turkey’s political institutions and values and endangering the U.S.-Turkey relationship.
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Mort Abramowitz is a known neocon, Israel lobbyist, CIA and State Department Operative, and PNAC signatory, and has been one of Fethullah Gulen’s main handlers and backers. In fact, when the FBI and Homeland Security Department tried to kick the Islamic Mullah out of the United States, Abramowitz was one of the first Gulen CIA-State Department handlers to step in.
As for Eric Edelman? Let’s go back nine years and check him out in my State Secrets Gallery: I presented the State Department-CIA’s Eric Edelman as one of the top culprits in my State Secrets Privilege Case – when the government invoked the State Secrets Privilege and several additional gag orders to cover up the FBI’s investigations and files pertaining to CIA-NATO terror operations in Central Asia & the Caucasus since the mid-1990s. Just like Abramowitz, Edelman is known as an avid Israel lobbyist and a neocon.
If you haven’t already, please refer to my article and interview where I discuss and emphasize the role of Turkish Mullah Fethullah Gulen, who has been residing in the United States since 1998, as a major operative for CIA-NATO operations, not only in Turkey, but also in Central Asia and the Caucasus. During the past few years I have been a lone voice in the United States when it comes to real coverage of Gulen and his operations under the CIA. Here are a few examples of my coverage since 2009:
Boston Terror, CIA’s Graham Fuller & NATO-CIA Operation Gladio B-Caucasus & Central Asia
Turkish Intel Chief Exposes CIA Operations via Islamic Group in Central Asia
Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen Nabs George Bush PR Queen
The Sanitized Gulen Coverage Continues…
As a persistent lone voice I am asking you to pay close attention to these historical facts, the documented incestuous connections including the CIA, State Department and the Israel Lobby, and then go back and read this same New York Times article again. Then, you will be able to answer very quickly and confidently when you are asked: Whose interests is the New York Times serving? Who rules and controls the propaganda channels called US mainstream media outlets?
This is why I always question, and almost always write off, whistleblower cases that become the darling adopted pet cases for publications like the New York Times and Washington Post. You see, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t establish the rulers and ownership and agenda –setters for these publications, aka US media, and then go back and trust them when they begin to sell you a whistleblower or a leak as the real deal. It just doesn’t happen. One thing you can count on when it comes to this puppetry is consistency. If they advocate and report something it has been declared allowable and kosher by their bosses. And as we all know: nothing good or noble exists on the agenda list of the ruling establishment.

 

Sibel Edmonds is the Publisher & Editor of Boiling Frogs Post and the author of the Memoir Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story. She is the recipient of the 2006 PEN Sibel EdmondsNewman’s Own First Amendment Award for her “commitment to preserving the free flow of information in the United States in a time of growing international isolation and increasing government secrecy” Ms. Edmonds has a MA in Public Policy and International Commerce from George Mason University, a BA in Criminal Justice and Psychology from George Washington University.

Fethullah Gülen and Erdogan power struggle expend to within ruling elite of Azerbaijan

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The battle between Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the leader of Islamic movement Hizmet (Nurs) has spilled over into Azerbaijan and became the main reason of the dismissal of the head of Political analysis Gulen and ordagonand Information Provision department of Presidential Administration Elnur Aslanov, it is stated in the article published on the website of Institute of war and peace reporting(IWPR).

However, the analysts believe that there has long been a struggle for the influence between the head of Political and Social department of Presidential Administration Ali Hasanov and the dismissed head of Political analysis and Information Provision department of Presidential Administration Elnur Aslanov. A suspicion of Aslanov’s involvement in the sect of Nur movement was a pretext to get rid of him.

According to the article, Ali Hasanov while commenting on the influence the Nur movement has in Azerbaijan called for vigilance.
“The representatives of those trends should know that attempts to adapt the state policy to their interests will fail,” Hasanov told a religious affairs conference in Baku on March 7. On March 17 Elnur Aslanov was dismissed.

Arastun Orujlu, director of the Baku-based East-West Research Centre, told IWPR that this is the way the battle between senior government officials manifests itself and that there will be plenty more signs of this kind of dispute in future. ““The Hizmet movement was just used to raise the issue and shape public opinion,” he believes.

“The Hizmet movement has been in Azerbaijan for years now. If it really was a threat, the government would have taken serious steps years ago,” he added.

According to the article, the problem is so controversial that many political analysts shun discussing it openly. One of Azerbaijani experts, who requested anonymity, said that perhaps Aslanov has no relation to Gulen.

“The Hizmet movement and its activities in Azerbaijan can be very easily exploited in a domestic power-struggle,” he said.

The article reads that the Hizmet movement was one of the first foreign organizations to move into Azerbaijan after the break-up of the Soviet Union. Heydar Aliyev, the late president supported the emergence of Turkish schools in the country. Hizmet currently runs 11 high schools, 13 primary schools and one University in Azerbaijan. According to an anonymous expert they can be closed as a consequence of recent events.

Note that the newspaper “Yeni Musavat” referring to the source in social networks has disseminated information that the official circles of Turkey have provided the Azerbaijani government with a list of high-ranking officials of Azerbaijan in the administration of President Ilham Aliyev and the Azerbaijani government, which include or are related with such religious direction, as Nursizm.

The list of officials recruited by the sect of Fethullah Gülen include, the head of Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Elnur Aslanov, SOCAR vice president Khalig Mammadov, chairman of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations Elshad Isgandarov, his deputy Gunduz Ismailov, Youth and Sports Deputy Minister Intigam Babayev, MP Jeyhun Osmanli, CSR Director under the Presidential Administration Farhad Mammadov, Chairman of the Youth Foundation Farhad Hajiyev. Already on March 17 Elnur Aslanov was dismissed from his position as a head of the department of Political Analysis and Information Provision of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan.