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Turkey: Fuat Avni claims attacks will take place in İstanbul prior to Nov. 1 election

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A screenshot taken from whistleblower fuatavni’s Twitter account.


A screenshot taken from whistleblower fuatavni’s Twitter account.

Early Friday morning a government whistleblower who tweets under the pseudonym Fuat Avni claimed that a group of people in the presidential palace with links to the Zionists are planning to organize attacks, including suicide bombings, in İstanbul’s important locations including the Bosporus Bridge, metro buses and ferries, in order to create a chaotic atmosphere and make people support the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in the Nov. 1 general election.

According to Avni, known for his predictions concerning government actions which often come true, the only way for Yezid and the Zionists in the presidential palace to form a single-party government under AK Party rule is to deepen the chaos in the country and use the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as a pawn to achieve this goal.

Avni refers to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as “Yezid,” the Umayyad caliph who, according to historic Islamic belief, allowed his opponent, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, to die in the battle of Karbala. Due to his crime against the family of the Prophet, the name Yezid is commonly reviled in all sects of Islam and used to belittle and vilify the opponent.

It is the responsibility of the police to stop this bloody plan by considering intelligence reports for possible attacks, the whistleblower pointed out.

Deep state plans assassinations to widen the gap between AK Party and Gülen movement

According to Avni’s tweets, Erdoğan’s aides in the presidential palace, who have links with the deep state, are planning assassinations to deepen the division between the people at the grassroots of the AK Party and the faith-based Gülen movement.

Avni wrote that, in an effort to see the relations between the AK Party and the Gülen movement permanently severed, a person close to Erdoğan and another important person in the Gülen movement will be killed. “When the person close to Erdoğan has been killed, they will put the blame on the ‘parallel,’ and when the leading person in the Gülen movement has been killed, they will say it was a revenge killing,” Avni tweeted.

“Parallel,” a word used to refer to parallel structure and parallel state, is a term coined by Erdoğan to refer to sympathizers of the Gülen movement, inspired by the views of prominent Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, especially regarding his views on the state bureaucracy.

Claiming that both potential assassinations will be organized and carried out by the same people from within the deep state, Avni emphasized that they would aim to create enmity among society.

Columnist Uslu denies he is whistleblower Fuat Avni, says claim is attempt to cover up gov’t failure

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Columnist Emre Uslu. (Photo: Cihan)

Columnist Emre Uslu. (Photo: Cihan)

US-based Turkish journalist Emre Uslu has categorically denied claims made by pro-government newspapers suggesting that he is responsible for a Twitter account that reveals inside information about the Turkish government, saying those making such claims know that they are false and are merely trying to cover up the government’s failure to find the real party behind the account.

On Monday the Sabah, Star and Güneş dailies, known to have close ties with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government, ran a story on their front pages headlined “Here is Fuat Avni” above a photo of Uslu. Fuat Avni is the name on the whistleblower Twitter account, which discloses plans for government operations as well as other information about the inner workings of the government. The dailies alleged that Uslu gathers and reports intelligence gleaned from police officers and others in exchange for money and promises of promotions. They also published conversations that allegedly took place using Twitter’s direct messaging service between Fuat Avni and police officers.

In a statement on his website, e.uslu.com, the Today’s Zaman and Taraf columnist said he knows that direct messages on Twitter are monitored in Turkey and added that he has even mentioned this fact to his followers when he contacts them via direct message.

He also referenced earlier reports in pro-government dailies claiming that he was managing the Fuat Avni account and indicated that he is suing those dailies.

Uslu underlined that he is sure that those making these claims also know very well that he is not behind the Fuat Avni account. Uslu assessed the reports as being a reflection of the government’s anger with him.

The journalist suggested that his coverage of the failures of former National Intelligence Organization (MİT) head Hakan Fidan — who recently resigned to run for Parliament — may have enflamed government anger with him. He added that government circles are trying to defame him because of what they claim are efforts to prevent Fidan from becoming the next prime minister in his writing.

The second possibility for the allegations, Uslu said, is to prevent criticism from being aimed at Fidan for failing to find the real person behind the account — especially since general elections are slated to be held on June 7 and Fidan is planning to run for Parliament on the ruling party ticket.

“I think the most reasonable scenario is this: The undersecretary of MİT not finding out who Fuat Avni is remains a big failure in his career. [So] they ‘found’ a Fuat Avni so that the he would not enter politics as an undersecretary who failed to reveal him,” Uslu said, adding that Fidan will probably start making TV appearances to talk about how he “found” the person managing the account.

Sabah said in its Monday report that police officers told Uslu on Feb. 12, 2014 that they were preparing to launch an operation against the Zaman daily, apparently suggesting that Uslu then transmitted that information via the Avni Twitter account. However, Fuat Avni made no mention of such an operation at that time and no such operation took place, calling the report’s suppositions into question. Some 10 months later, in mid-December, Avni did announce that an operation would take place targeting Zaman. Police conducted an operation and detained the Zaman daily’s editor-on-chief, as well as others, on Dec. 14, 2014.

 

Turkey: Whistleblower Fuat Avni reveals new plot by Erdoğan against opponents

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201046_newsdetailA government whistleblower who writes under the pseudonym Fuat Avni and who claims to be in the inner circle of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has revealed that a secret group has been formed to frame opponents and critics of the government as part of an intimidation campaign by Erdoğan’s regime. Report Today Zaman

The whistleblower, who has exposed many government plans in advance over his Twitter account and whose revelations have generally proven true, claimed on Sunday that a group called the Cosmic Study Group (KÇG) has set up a secretive operation center to plot new conspiracies under special instructions from Erdoğan.

Fuat Avni disclosed the new venue as a building in Akay, in Ankara’s Çankaya district. The building was used by the Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Bureau of the National Police Department. The whistleblower wrote that the secretive group was illegally formed by confidantes to prevent information from being leaked to the public, and added that he knows all of the group’s members by name and that he will disclose their identities “when the time comes.”

Fuat Avni said the group includes one deputy chief prosecutor, four prosecutors and staff from the National Police Department’s Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime, Counterterrorism and Financial Crime Bureaus. The group has been compartmentalized into bureaus, and each bureau has one coordinator to manage the activities.

He said the KÇG has already started plotting new operations to frame critics of the government in order to please Erdoğan by engineering scenarios with fabricated evidence. The whistleblower said he knows all the government’s secret plans, warning that those who plot against unsuspecting citizens will be held accountable in the court of law when the time comes.

The whistleblower knew beforehand of a massive crackdown on media professionals that took place on Dec. 14. Many believe the revelations forced the government to limit the number of journalists they had been planning to detain.

The claim of mass detentions of some 400 people, including 150 journalists, was first raised by Avni, who later said the number was scaled down after his Twitter leaks.

Avni also claimed that Erdoğan wants Zaman Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı to be arrested, and that the KÇG has cooked up a plot to make that happen. He asserted that the detention of Dumanlı would be possible following a letter from Trabzon in which a man with a criminal record would say that Dumanlı asked him to plant bombs and ammunition. Avni said the man, Melih Gürler, has seen the inside of many prisons in the country and that he had been charged with robbery, extortion, sexual assault and false testimony in the past. Gürler is being used by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), Avni asserted.

Many suspected Avni’s revelation of the plot against Dumanlı prevented the secretive group from moving ahead with its plans, as the judge looking into Dumanlı’s case refused to arrest the journalists, citing a lack of new evidence.