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Sunday, September 18, 2016

Published On: Thu, Sep 1st, 2016

| By F William Engdahl

Top USA National Security Officials Admit Turkey Coup

Gülen CIA friend Bartholomew I

Hughes’ article is a bombshell in many respects, and most definitely in his detailing of the intimate ties between the CIA, Gülen and the current Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, current Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch. Hughes described the above-mentioned Father Alexander Karloutsos:

“…one of the members of the American-Israeli lobby in the Constantinople Patriarchate is Father Alexander Karloutsos, Public Affairs Officer close to Archbishop Demetrios (of America-w.e.). Thanks to his ties with high-level officials and Greek-American billionaires, he is basically the only person who controls the money flows from the US to the Phanar (the Greek Orthodox part of Istanbul-w.e.), and that gives him wide possibilities of exerting pressure upon the Ecumenical Patriarchate. On the other hand, Karloutsos is also in good relations with former CIA Director George Tenet, and with the preacher Fethullah Gülen cooperating with the American intelligence.”

George Tenet, a close ally of the Clinton political machine is a Greek-American former head of CIA during the time of Bill Clinton and also George W. Bush. The Clintons are both on record praising Fethullah Gülen. It seems to be a cozy network of CIA-Gülen-Constantinople Patriarchate-Clintons, all financed with “money from Greek-American billionaires.”

Arthur H. Hughes is not a casual commentator on events in Turkey and the Middle East. He was US Ambassador to Yemen in the 1990’s during the Clinton Presidency, then Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asia, and was Deputy Chief of Mission in Tel Aviv. His linking of Gülen to the CIA and to the Constantinople Patriarchate points to one of the least-public and most influential covert CIA-run networks in the world, the anti-Moscow Orthodox Patriarchate of Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople. Hughes suggests that if Erdogan and the Turkish government are serious about dealing with future coup threats, they should put the Constintanople Patriarchate under the magnifying glass.

As I’ve documented in my book, The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy, Graham E. Fuller and George Fidas, both decades-long senior CIA officials managed to secure an extraordinary permanent residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, over the loud formal objections of the US State Department, in 1999, when Gülen was about to be charged by the Turkish authorities for inciting treason.

Most recently, Fuller felt compelled to write on his blog that, indeed he did help Gülen obtain a US green card, but that no, Gülen was not behind the failed July 15 coup. However Turkish reports place Fuller and another senior CIA ally, Henri J. Barkey, at a luxury hotel on one of the Princes’ Islands in the Sea of Marmara, some twenty minutes from Istanbul the night of the failed coup. In a subsequent appearance at a Washington think tank forum held by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a neo-con address whose chairman is former CIA director, neo-con James Woolsey III, Barkey and his host tried to make a feeble joke about his presence in Istanbul the night of the coup and his ties to Gülen.

For once, Brzezinski is right.

The CIA-Gülen coup d’etat attempt to topple Erdogan after his turn towards rapprochement with Moscow was “a grave mistake.” The consequences, aside from a massive crackkdown on Gülen networks and media inside Turkey, include an open dialogue of Erdogan and the Turkish government of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım with Russia and now with Iran, about a “solution” to the Syrian war that would include Bashar al-Assad as at least a transition figure.

The Erdogan pivot East since the failed CIA coup has forced the Pentagon to quietly remove its nuclear warheads from Turkey’s Incirlik airbase near the Syrian border to Romania. At the same time, Turkey’s Prime Minister on August 20 stated to the media that Russia could possibly use Turkey’s Incirlik Airbase if necessary, something that certainly produced more acute gas pains in Langley, Foggy Bottom (the more than fitting name for the US State Department headquarters), and the Obama White House.

July 15 may go down in history as one of the most decisive defeats of American global power projection, of the so-called New World Order of David Rockefeller and friends. If so, not a minute too soon for the prospect of a more peaceful world.

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”

Monday, September 12, 2016

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’a karşı yapılan ABD destekli darbe girişimi ABD’nin itibarını sarsan büyük bir hataydı.”

"ABD Üst Düzey Ulusal Güvenlik Yetkilileri Türkiye Darbesini İtiraf Etti"

"15 Temmuz David Rockefeller ve arkadaşlarının sözde Yeni Dünya Düzeni, Amerikan küresel güç projesi için en belirleyici yenilgilerden biri olarak tarihe geçebilir. Eğer öyleyse, nihayet çok yakında daha barışçıl bir dünya umudu var."

Top USA National Security Officials Admit Turkey Coup

F. William Engdahl (NEO): Obama Yönetimi ve CIA resmen ABD İstihbaratının, CIA güdümlü Fethullah Gülen örgütü tarafından yapılan Türkiye’deki başarısız darbe girişiminde masum olduğu yalanına sarılırken gerçekler kendi içlerindeki kıdemli ABD’li istihbaratçılardan geliyor. Bu, Amerikan tarihinin en tuhaf başkanlık seçimlerini şekillendiren ABD lider çevrelerindeki bir iç hizip mücadelesini yansıtıyor.

ABD istihbaratının Erdoğan’ın NATO’dan Rusya’ya doğru kayan büyük bir değişimi duyurmasından birkaç gün sonra gerçekleşen Erdoğan karşıtı darbede parmağı olduğuna dair ilk itiraf Zbigniew Brzezinski’den geldi.

Brzezinski ABD istihbarat kuruluşunun en üst düzey üyelerinden biri, Obama'nın eski Başkanlık danışmanı, Sovyet kuvvetlerine karşı Afganistan terör operasyonlarının ve Jimmy Carter’ın eski Ulusal Güvenlik Konseyi’nin mimarlarından birisi.

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Kendi blogunda bir Twitter tweetinde, Brzezinski The American Interest magazine için yazdığı yeni bir makalenin özetini yazdı. Şöyle diyor:

“Türkiye Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’a karşı yapılan ABD destekli darbe girişimi ABD’nin itibarını sarsan büyük bir hataydı.”

Bu kesinlikle Türkiye’de 15 Temmuz’dan itibaren neler olduğunu kibarca ortaya koyuyor.

Brzezinski şöyle devam ediyor:

“Türkiye son beş yılda Suriye'deki başarısızlığından sonra dış politikasını yeniden gözden geçirmenin eşiğindeydi ve darbeyi ve darbe liderini (Fethullah Gülen şu anda Pensilvanya’da CIA düzenekli bir sürgünde) desteklemedeki yanlış hesap ABD ile müttefiklik ilişkilerini tam tersine çevirmesi ihtimalinde Türkiye’yi suçlamanın imkansız olacağı ve ABD’yi destekleme konusundaki politikalarını yeniden düşünme ihtimalinin olamayacağı kadar ciddiydi. “

Şöyle devam ediyor:

“Olası bir Rusya-Türkiye-İran koalisyonu Suriye krizini çözmek için bir fırsat yaratacak. Erdoğan’ın biraz aklı olsaydı, bazı “çürümüş” Arap ülkelerinin yardımıyla bağımsız bir güvenilirliği sağlayamayacağı gerçeğine ulaşırdı."

Hiç kuşku yok ki 2011 yılından bu yana Esad'a karşı Suriye terör savaşının baş finansörleri Suudi Arabistan ve Katar’dan bahsediyor.

Henry Kissinger’le birlikte savaş sonrası dönemin önde gelen ABD dış politika stratejistlerinden biri olan, David Rockefeller'in Trilateral Komisyonu Kurucu Başkanı olan ve bugün hala muhtemelen ABD Çok Gizli istihbarat raporlarına erişimi bulunan Brzezinski, Türkiye ile ilişkileri yönetmede ABD istihbaratının mutlak beceriksizliğine de öfkesini ifade ediyordu.

Özellikle, sadece Şubat 2014’te Ukrayna’daki feci ABD darbesinden değil ayrıca Türkiye’dekinden de doğrudan sorumlu ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığındaki kişi bahtsız neo-con daimi savaşçı prenses Victoria “AB’nin canı cehenneme” Nuland, neo-con Robert Kagan’ın eşidir.

Brzezinski'nin samimi eleştirisi, ABD istihbaratının 15 Temmuz’un arkasındaki ve Türk hükümetinin vatan hainliğiyle suçladığı Fethullah Gülen’le bağlarının detaylı bir ifşası olarak takip edildi.

AB internet dergisi EurActiv.com ‘daki 17 Ağustos 2016 tarihli bir konuk makalede, Arthur H. Hughes, Gülen ve CIA arasındaki gizli bağlantıları “ Gülen ABD’ye diplomat Morton Abramovitz, CIA ajanları Graham Fuller, George Fidas ve yukarıda belirttiğim Peder Alexander Karloutsos yardımıyla kaçtı.” diyerek doğruluyor.

Gülen’in CIA arkadaş I. Bartholomeos

Hughes'un makalesi bir çok yönden bomba etkisi yapıyor ve Gülen, CIA ve İstanbul mevcut Ortodoks Patriği Başpiskopos Bartholomeos arasındaki gizli ilişkilerin detaylarını veriyor. Hughes yukarıda belirtilen PederAlexander Karloutsos’u tarif ediyor:

"... Konstantinopolis Patrikhanesi Amerikan-İsrail lobisinin üyelerinden biri Peder Alexander Karloutsos, Başpiskopos Demetrios’a ( Amerikan) yakın Halkla İlişkiler Sorumlusu. Üst düzey yetkililer ve Yunan-Amerikalı milyarderler ile ilişkileri sayesinde temelde Fener’e (İstanbul- Rum Ortodoks kısmı) ABD'den akan parayı kontrol eden tek kişi ve bu ona Ekümenik Patriklik üzerinde baskı oluşturmak için geniş imkanlar sağlıyor. Öte yandan, Karloutsos eski CIA Direktörü George Tenet ile de ve vaiz Fethullah Gülen’le de Amerikan istihbaratı ile işbirliği yaparak iyi ilişkiler içerisinde.

Clinton, siyasi mekanizmasının yakın bir müttefiki olan George Tenet, Bill Clinton ve ayrıca George W. Bush döneminde CIA'in Yunanlı-Amerikalı eski başkanı. Clinton’ların her ikisi de Fethullah Gülen’i över pozisyonda. CIA- Gülen-Konstantinopolis Patrikhanesi-Clinton’lar arasındaki konforlu bir ağ var ve Yunan-Amerikan milyarderlerden gelen parayla finanse ediliyor gibi görünüyor.“

Arthur H. Hughes, Türkiye ve Ortadoğu'daki olaylarla ilgili rahat bir yorumcu değil. Clinton Dönem Başkanlığı sırasında 1990'lı yıllarda Yemen'e ABD Büyükelçisi, ardından da Yakın Doğu İşlerinden Sorumlu Devlet Sekreteri Bakan Yardımcısı oldu. Aynı zamanda Yakın Doğu ve Güney Asya Savunma Bakan Yardımcısı olarak görev yaptı ve Tel Aviv'deki Misyon Şefi Yardımcısıydı.

Onun Gülen’den CIA’ya ve Konstantinopolis Patrikhanesi’ne uzanan bağlantıları dünyada CIA güdümlü ağları, Moskova karşıtı Ortodoks Patrikhanesi Konstantinopolis Patriği Bartholomeos’u işaret ediyor. Hughes Erdoğan ve Türk hükümetine gelecek darbe tehditleri hakkında ciddi iseler, Konstantinopolis Patrikhanesi’ni mercek altına almalarını tavsiye ediyor.

'Kayıp Hegemonya: Tanrılar Kimi Yok Edecek' adlı kitabımda belgelediğim gibi, ikisi de üst düzey CIA yetkilileri olan Graham Fuller ve George Fidas, ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığı'nın resmi yüksek sesli itirazlarına rağmen 1999’da; Gülen Türk makamları tarafından ihanetle yargılanacakken Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania'da olağanüstü daimi ikametin güvenliğini sağlamayı başardılar.

En son, Fuller,kendisini gerçekten de Gülen'e ABD yeşil kartı almak için yardımcı olduğunu kendi blogunda yazmak zorunda hissetti, ama hayır, Gülen başarısız 15 Temmuz darbesinin arkasında değildi. Ancak Türkçe raporlar Fuller ve başka üst düzey CIA müttefiki Henri J. Barkey’in başarısız darbenin olduğu gece, İstanbul’dan 20 dakika uzaklıkta Marmara Denizi'ndeki Adalar'ın birinde lüks bir otelde olduklarını yazdı. Demokrasileri Savunma Vakfı tarafından düzenlenen bir Washington think tank forumunda bir sonraki oturumda eski CIA direktörü neo-con James Woolsey III başkanlığındaki bir konuşmacı Barkey ve onun ev sahibi ve İstanbul'da darbe gecesi bulunuşu ve Gülen'le ilişkileri hakkında zayıf bir şaka yapmak çalıştı.

Bir kez olsun, Brzezinski haklı.

Moskova ile yakınlaşma yönünde yaptığı dönüşten sonra Erdoğan’ı devirmek için yapılan başarısız CIA-Gülen darbe girişimi "vahim” bir hataydı. Sonuçları Türkiye içindeki Gülen ağları ve medya üzerinde büyük bir kırılma yaratması bir yana, Erdoğan’ın ve Başbakan Binali Yıldırım Hükümetinin şimdi Suriye savaşı için bir "çözüm" konusunda İran ve Rusya’yla yapacağı Beşar Esed’in de bir geçiş figürü olacağı açık bir diyaloğu da içeriyor.

Başarısız CIA darbesinden bu yana Erdoğan’ın Doğu’ya dönüşü Pentagon’u sessizce Türkiye'nin İncirlik hava üssünden nükleer savaş başlıklarını kaldırmaya zorladı. Aynı zamanda, Türkiye Cumhurbaşkanı 20 Ağustos’ta medyaya gerekirse Rusya’nın Türkiye'nin İncirlik hava üssünü kullanabileceğini söyledi, böyle bir şey kesinlikle Langley, Foggy Bottom’da (ki bu isim ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığına daha çok yakışıyor) ve Obama Beyaz Sarayı'nda gaz ağrıları üretti.

15 Temmuz David Rockefeller ve arkadaşlarının sözde Yeni Dünya Düzeni, Amerikan küresel güç projesi için en belirleyici yenilgilerden biri olarak tarihe geçebilir. Eğer öyleyse, nihayet çok yakında daha barışçıl bir dünya umudu var.

F. William Engdahl (*), 1 Eylül 2016

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(*)F. William Engdahl stratejik risk danışmanı ve öğretim üyesidir, Princeton Üniversitesi siyaset mezunudur, petrol ve jeopolitik üzerine çok satan bir yazardır, özellikle internet dergisi “New Eastern Outlook” yazarıdır.

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Monday, August 15, 2016

Graham E.Fuller where were you on the night of July 15?

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09.08.2016 Author: F. William Engdahl

Graham E. Fuller Where Were You on the Night of July 15?

Column: Politics

Region: Middle East

Country: Turkey

Much has been written on the July 15 failed coup attempt in Turkey. The Erdogan government has pointed to the exiled Fethullah Gülen sitting in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, and formally requested his extradition to face charges in Turkish courts. Washington so far refuses. As a massive nationwide investigation by police and security forces continues inside Turkey, new damning details emerge almost daily that point to the key role of the CIA behind their Fethullah Gülen Movement (termed FETÖ for Fethullah Terrorist Organization in Turkish) and the US military. Now the Turkish media reports that none other than Gülen mentor, “former” CIA man Graham E. Fuller, along with another “former” CIA person and close Fuller associate, Henri J. Barkey, were at a luxury hotel on one of the Princes’ Islands in the Sea of Marmara, some twenty minutes from Istanbul, on the night of July 15.

While Washington adamantly continues do deny any and all involvement in the failed July 15 Turkish coup attempt, Turkish media is revealing detailed information of the involvement of key US figures as alleged coup organizers. They include the former NATO International Security Assistance Force (Afghanistan) Commander, Army General John F. Campbell. And now new revelations name Henri J. Barkey, a former CIA man, now based as Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, conveniently, a mere 26 miles or 30 minute drive via PA-33 from Saylorsburg, home of the exiled Fethullah Gülen.

According to the Istanbul Yeni Safak paper, on the July 15 night of the coup Henri Barkey and a group of seventeen others, mostly foreigners, met for hours in a locked room in the Splendid Palas hotel on the tourist Princes’ Island outside Istanbul and reportedly followed coup developments on TV amid their closed-door talks, according to testimony of hotel personnel. The paper cites a source from Istanbul Police’s Intelligence, Counter Terror, Cyber Crime and Criminal Units, who reported that Barkey was holding a meeting at the hotel with 17 top figures, most of them foreign nationals, on July 15, the day of the failed coup attempt in Turkey.

According to the hotel management, Barkey had held a “meeting that lasted hours until the morning on July 16 in a special room. They have been following the coup attempt over TV channels,” the hotel personnel told police.

Graham E. Fuller too?

Other reports from well-informed Turkish independent journalists say that among the members present with Barkey the night of the coup was former CIA senior officer and mentor of Fethullah Gülen, Graham E. Fuller, former CIA Station Chief in Turkey. That would be no surprise. Fuller and Barkey are both old Langley CIA associates. Both have long involvement with affairs Turkish. They even co-authored a book, Turkey’s Kurdish Question.

Indeed, it would seem something recently has stung the 78-year old wily CIA veteran, Fuller. He claims to have retired from the agency years ago, when he went over to the CIA-tied RAND Corporation. Yet he re-emerged from the shadows during the Boston Marathon bombing to try, feeling obviously on the spot, to deny links to the two Chechyn brothers accused of that event. Fuller had then to admit that the Tsarnaev brothers had an Uncle, ‘Uncle Ruslan’, aka Ruslan Tsarnaev, a former employee of Dick Cheney’s Halliburton in Central Asia, who had lived in Fuller’s home for a stint when Uncle Ruslan was married to Fuller’s daughter. Bizarre enough, just ‘coincidence’ for sure… Yet if Fuller had not wanted to draw the spotlight on himself, he would have done better had he just shut up and let it blow over. Not very professional for a veteran CIA spook.

Now Fuller again in his personal blog rushes to deny being behind Fethullah Gülen and the Turkish coup. His blog post is a rambling paean of praise for his protégé, Gülen, writing that “Gülen comes out of an apolitical, more Sufi, mystical and social tradition. Gülen is interested in slow, deep social change including secular higher education…looking at the dramatically failed coup attempt against Erdogan last week, I believe it is unlikely that Gülen was the mastermind behind it.” Erdogan, never to my knowledge, called Gülen “mastermind behind the coup.” He said the Gülen networks played the key roles carrying it out. Masterminds, charitably using the word, were elsewhere, sitting in Tampa, Florida Centcom headquarters and in Langley, Virginia.

Despite Fuller’s clumsy attempt to sheep-dip Gülen, it’s been documented that the same CIA-backed Gülen organization, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990’s, rushed to establish Gülen schools across former Soviet Central Asia republics from Turkey into Chechnya and Dagestan in Russia, into Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and on into Xingiang, China.

In 1999, while at RAND, Fuller advocated using Muslim forces to further US interests in Central Asia against both China and Russia. He stated, “The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Russians. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia.”

Fuller’s book, Turkey’s New Geopolitics: From the Balkans to Western China, was published in 1993, just as Gülen’s organization was establishing a string of Gülen schools targeting the local children of the elites in Central Asia all the way to Xinjiang Province in Western China, home of many Muslim Turkic Uyghurs. By the mid-1990s, more than seventy-five Gülen schools had spread to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and even to Dagestan and Tatarstan in Russia, amid the chaos of the post-Soviet Boris Yeltsin era.

In 2011, Osman Nuri Gündeş, former head of Foreign Intelligence for the Turkish MIT, the “Turkish CIA,” and chief intelligence adviser in the mid-1990s to Prime Minister Tansu Çiller, published a bombshell book that was only released in Turkish. In the book, Gündeş, then 85 and retired, revealed that, during the 1990s, the Gülen schools then popping up across Central Asia were providing a base for hundreds of CIA agents under cover of being “native-speaking English teachers.” According to Gündeş, the Gülen movement “sheltered 130 CIA agents” at its schools in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan alone.

Full disclosure?

Then Fuller admits something that suggests, “Methinks thou doth protest too much.” He writes: “Full disclosure: It is on public record that I wrote a letter as a private citizen in connection with Gülen’s US green card application in 2006 stating that I did not believe that Gülen constituted a security threat to the US…”

Of course, Langley spooks by nature never make “full disclosure.” He omits that his letter was co-signed by a second senior CIA veteran of 31 years, George Fidas, and by an alleged CIA man, then US Ambassador to Turkey, Morton Abramowitz, himself a board member of George Soros International Crisis Group. Sibel Edmonds, former FBI Turkish translator and “whistleblower,” named Abramowitz, along with Graham E. Fuller, as part of a dark cabal within the US Government that she discovered were using networks out of Turkey to advance a criminal, “deep state” agenda across the Turkic world, from Istanbul across the Russian Federation into China. The network that she documented included significant involvement in heroin trafficking out of Afghanistan, perhaps one of the sources of Gülen’s great wealth.

Fuller also omits to say that Fuller’s successful CIA intervention to secure Gülen’s permanent Green Card special status was opposed by the US State Department whose attorneys stated, “Because of the large amount of money that Gülen’s movement uses to finance his projects, there are claims that he has secret agreements with Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkic governments. There are suspicions that the CIA is a co-payer in financing these projects.”

The idea that Graham E. Fuller would be involved in the present CIA-Gülen Turkish coup attempt is given added credence from another statement by Fuller who, while at CIA played a key role in their 1980s Afghanistan Mujidideen war against the Soviet Union, a guerilla war where the CIA recruited a young Saudi named Osama bin Laden to oversee terror training of Islamic Jihadists in Pakistan.

The aim of Fuller’s unusual blog admission is clearly to make a case that neither he, Fuller, nor his protégé, Gülen had anything to do with the coup. We must then ask, “Graham E. Fuller, where were you on the night of July 15?”

The General with $2 billion

Details have also emerged alleging the role as the key military figure orchestrating the Turkish military in the failed coup. According to Yeni Safak, a paper close to Erdogan, just-retired head of the US Afghanistan Command, ISAF, General John F. Campbell, had not retired as announced this March to cultivate his rose garden and play golf. He was given a covert assignment some eight months before to recruit the Turkish military leadership of the coup. Already then Erdogan had been evidently slated for elimination in favor of a Gülen takeover of the country and its key institutions. They report that Campbell had made at least two secret visits to Turkey for top secret meetings in Erzurum military base and the Adana İnicrlik NATO Airbase since May, until the day of the coup attempt.

Equally interesting, the paper reports, in detail, how Campbell reportedly oversaw a bankroll of $2 billion to grease the skids of the Turkish officer corps for the planned coup. They wrote that the Nigeria branch of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) was the main base for the money transactions for the coup plotters: “Millions of dollars of money has been transferred from Nigeria to Turkey by a group of CIA personnel. The money, which has been distributed to an 80-person special team of the CIA, was used to convince pro-coup generals.”

For $2 billion presumably you can buy a lot of generals. The same report stated that according to sources, the CIA used the strong presence of Gülen Cemaat networks for the planned coup in central and eastern Turkey. The Yeni Safak report described testimony from those captured as to how coup military were recruited from Turkish officers at Incirlik airbase: “The supporters, who also were categorized as ‘those who will move with us,’ were provided a huge amount of money. All soldiers and officers in this category were considered as the devoted members of the FETO terror group (Gülen Organization.w.e.)

Turkish independent journalist sources have told me that the CIA infiltration of the Turkish military had taken place over decades, as part of the process of eliminating any nationalist Kemalist generals that might oppose a Gülen-led Islamist Turkey. According to these reports, Gülen recruits from lower ranks in the military were secretly given the answers to all military entrance exams to insure their admission into officer ranks. These sources estimate that perhaps over 50% of the senior ranks of the Turkish army was occupied by Gülenist generals before July 15.

The picture emerging of Gülen and his organization is hardly what Graham E. Fuller describes as “an a-political, more Sufi, mystical and social tradition.” In fact Gülen was forced to flee to the USA at the end of the 1990’s when Turkish secret police taped a closed-door sermon by Gülen to his closest followers in which he reportedly said, “You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers…You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it…You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power…in Turkey…” Sounds a bit like Lenin with a Koran.

Dunford’s rush trip

There must be some real fire behind all the smoke coming out of Turkey and the Erdogan government since the failed coup of July 15. The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joseph ‘Fightin Joe’ Dunford, is rushing to Turkey on an unexpected visit on July 31.

For the first time since the coup, on July 29, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly accused General Joseph Votel, Commander of United States Central Command of, “siding with the coup plotters.” At a July 28 seminar in Washington of the Aspen Institute think-tank, Votel had declared, “We’ve certainly had relationships with a lot of Turkish leaders, military leaders in particular. And so I’m concerned about what the impact is on those relationships as we continue to move forward,” referring to the arrested military prisoners in Turkey, to which Erdogan replied, “It’s not up to you to make that decision. Who are you? Know your place!”

Depending on what Erdogan does now going forward and with which countries, whether he formally withdraws Turkey from NATO, whether after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he acts to change Turkey’s support for toppling the Assad regime in Syria and draw closer to Russia and away from the West, the entire US geopolitical position across the Middle East into Eurasia as far as Russia and even China could become a catastrophe for the once-arrogant plotters, the old boring patriarchs of the CIA and their Gülen protégé. The next months will clearly be critical in the most unimaginable ways.