{"id":25895,"date":"2018-08-17T19:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T23:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25895"},"modified":"2018-08-17T19:55:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T23:55:20","slug":"the-rest-of-the-story-om-the-fight-between-turkey-and-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/08\/17\/the-rest-of-the-story-om-the-fight-between-turkey-and-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rest Of The Story on the Fight Between Turkey and the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC&#8217;s Nightly News was pretty parsimonious with the explanation of what is going on between Turkey and the USA. I decided to look on the internet to see what my &#8220;friends&#8221; in the USA corporate news media aren&#8217;t telling me. Here is the first article I found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/436225-trump-turkey-spat-pastor\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018We are not going to take it sitting down\u2019: Trump on detention of US pastor in Turkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe US president\u2019s remarks followed a ruling by a Turkish court, which rejected an appeal for the release of US Pastor Andrew Brunson.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been detained by Turkish authorities for nearly two years. Brunson is accused of being linked to Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric who Ankara has said was the mastermind behind the botched coup attempt in July 2016. Brunson faces up to 35 years in Turkish jail over a number of charges, which include espionage and acting \u201con behalf of terror groups.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found this <em>BBC<\/em> story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-36855846\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turkey coup: What is Gulen movement and what does it want?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for last week&#8217;s bloody attempted coup.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then I found this story from France &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20170718-gulen-admits-meeting-key-man-turkey-coup-plot-dismisses-erdogan-senseless-claims\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulen admits meeting key figure in Turkey coup plot, dismisses Erdogan\u2019s \u2018senseless\u2019 claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Fethullah Gulen admitted meeting a key figure in Turkey\u2019s July 2016 attempted coup. But the Turkish cleric said that a mere visit from one of his followers isn&#8217;t proof he orchestrated the failed coup.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally I came to this <em>Global Research<\/em> story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-cia-fetullah-gulen-and-turkeys-failed-july-2016-coup\/5622321\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The CIA, Fetullah G\u00fclen and Turkey\u2019s Failed July 2016 Coup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn December 1, Turkish prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Graham E. Fuller, former head of the CIA\u2019s National Intelligence Council and former CIA head of Middle East and East Asia operations. The warrant claims Fuller was in the vicinity of Istanbul the night of the coup attempt at a meeting with another top \u201cformer\u201d CIA person, Henri Barkey. It claims both CIA veterans were meeting at the five-star Splendid Hotel on the island of B\u00fcy\u00fckada some 20 minutes boat ride from Istanbul.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nFuller goes on to admit he formally backed granting G\u00fclen special US visa status in 2006:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    \u201cFull disclosure: It is on public record that I wrote a letter as a private citizen in connection with G\u00fclen\u2019s US green card application in 2006 stating that I did not believe that G\u00fclen constituted a security threat to the US\u2026\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fuller\u2019s \u201cfull disclosure\u201d then however omits the fact that it was not merely a casual letter of recommendation to a man Fuller claimed he had met only once. Fuller\u2019s endorsement of G\u00fclen\u2019s Green Card application was so influential that he managed to override the no votes of the FBI, of attorneys for the US State Department and Homeland Security. In the G\u00fclen hearings, State Department attorneys stated,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cBecause of the large amount of money that G\u00fclen\u2019s 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.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nWhatever the outcome of the Turkish charges against Graham Fuller and his close former CIA associate, Henri Barkey, for their alleged involvement in the failed July 15, 2016 Turkish coup d\u2019etat, it clearly throws a major spotlight of world attention on the relation between the CIA and the Fetullah G\u00fclen organization. To open that can of worms could help fumigate more than thirty years of covert Central Asia and other CIA operations with Osama bin Laden, opium trade, Kosovo drug mafia, Turkish dirty CIA operations and far more. Little wonder Graham Fuller writes a blog with the pathetic title, \u201cWhy did Turkey Issue an Arrest Warrant Against Me?\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You would think this would be enough circumstantial evidence to get a special prosecutor if this were Russia instead of Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC&#8217;s Nightly News was pretty parsimonious with the explanation of what is going on between Turkey and the USA. I decided to look on the internet to see what my &#8220;friends&#8221; in the USA corporate news media aren&#8217;t telling me. Here is the first article I found. \u2018We are not going to take it sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25895"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25900,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25895\/revisions\/25900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}