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Erdogan spokesman says Turkish intel will continue “operations” against foes inside the US

Sep 25, 2018 9:36 am By Robert Spencer

Whatever one thinks of Fethullah Gulen — and he is just as much of an Islamic supremacist as Erdogan — this is a declaration of contempt for U.S. sovereignty. Turkey is not an ally of the U.S. and should not be treated as one.

“Turkish Intel Will Run ‘Operations’ Against Political Opponents On US Soil, Erdogan Spokesman Says,” by Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, September 24, 2018:

The Turkish government plans to continue “operations,” including in the United States, against supporters of a political opponent of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a top adviser to the Turkish president said Friday.

Speaking to reporters ahead of Erdogan’s trip this week to the U.N. General Assembly, Ibrahim Kalin said that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, MIT, would continue targeting supporters of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen across the globe.

“Our relevant units and institutions will continue their operations in the countries the FETO operates in whether it be the U.S. or some other country,” said Kalin, using an acronym for the pejorative term Fethullah Terrorist Organization to describe Gulen’s network of followers.

“Rest assured that they will feel Turkey breathing down their neck,” Kalin added.

Erdogan and the Turkish government have waged a widespread crackdown against Gulen’s network, which is said to number in the millions. Erdogan blames Gulen, who lives in exile in Pennsylvania, for the failed July 15, 2016 coup attempt that left more than 250 people dead. Gulen has denied taking part in the coup.

The Turkish government’s targeting of Gulen and his supporters has run the gamut. MIT officials kidnapped six Turkish nationals in March in Kosovo and returned them back to Turkey to face trial. The kidnapping caused a major international uproar and showed the lengths that Erdogan would go to hunt down Gulen supporters.

“Operations similar to the one conducted in Kosovo can be carried out in other countries. All should know that Turkey will not allow the FETO to breathe a sigh of relief,” Kalin said Friday, adding that Erdogan “has given very clear instructions on this issue.”

Operations in the U.S. have yet to go as far as the Kosovo incident.

Instead, the Turkish government has hired several lobbying firms and lawyers to debilitate a network of charter schools operated by Gulen’s followers. The lobbyists have also pressed officials in both the Obama and Trump administrations to extradite Gulen, who has lived in the U.S. since 1999.

Perhaps the most high-profile lobbyist for Turkey was Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump. A Turkish businessman linked to the government hired Flynn to investigate Gulen during the 2016 campaign. Flynn and the businessman, Ekim Alptekin, discussed kidnapping Gulen and returning him to Turkey, according to reports….

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  1. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 11:57 am

    Mr spencer, are you not aware that arrogant evil United States have been hunting fugitives all over the globe through CIA? Snowden was pursued up to Russia. you mean evil United States has exclusive rights to hunt what it considers traitors as threat to its national interests? Turkey have the same right.

    • The Istanbulian says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 1:21 pm

      Ibo abi, why is north africa arabic speaking? Because tou muslims for over a thousand years have been doing evil things all over the globe.

      And if you can do it in the name of allah aka economic interest, they can do it for national security.

      Now enjoy your blowback.

      • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Sep 25, 2018 at 5:20 pm

        Istanbulian, are you conversant with the history of North Africa? Do you know that they were colonies of Brutal mithraist christian Byzantines and were liberated by Muslims?North Africa became Arabic speaking people as a result of mixture with Arab muslims who liberated them from cruel Roman Byzantines who imposed heavy taxes on them and the proceeds repatriated to imperial Headquarters exclusivesly for Romans unlike Arab muslims who settled there and the resources were expended there for the benefit of all, not exclusive for the Arab citizens. Because of this kind gesture, non Arab muslims began to speak Arabic language and it became dominant due to process of learning Islam. But still many speak local languages like in Algeria and Libya even today.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 6:33 pm

          Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

          Istanbulian, are you conversant with the history of North Africa? Do you know that they were colonies of Brutal mithraist christian Byzantines and were liberated by Muslims?
          …………………..

          Ibrahim itace muhammed has said this before–that North African Christians *wanted* to be raped, brutalized, and mass slaughtered by Muslims, and that they much preferred to pay the crushing, humiliating Jizya than whatever taxes were levied under the Byzantines.

          There are few Christians surviving today in the Mahgreb. But who wouldn’t want to be murdered by Ibrahim itace muhammed’s coreligionists? sarc/off

          He has said that this is what “real” Christians want.

        • J D S says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 11:49 am

          Ibrahim…Anyone with any sense at all should by now in the year 2018.. know that all these colonists countries including wherever you were born,were still under control of the United Kingdom of some other civil nation there would be no problems as we see today in these former colonies. Once the civil nations relinquished control these former colonies fell apart…mostly because Islam was then allowed to move forward..Worst mistake in history and NOTHING you say can change the proven fact..It’s in plain sight for the world to see. Most other problems in the Muslim world started at the end of WW1..bad mistake there too.
          Time for the western nations to ban together yo take back the world and time for Christians to become real Christians.

  2. gravenimage says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 6:27 pm

    Whatever one thinks of Fethullah Gulen — and he is just as much of an Islamic supremacist as Erdogan — this is a declaration of contempt for U.S. sovereignty. Turkey is not an ally of the U.S. and should not be treated as one.
    ………………….

    Spot on.

    • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 9:11 pm

      Liar Gravenimage, contrary to what you ignorant liars and Mr spencer have been ranting when Muslims conquered a nation they don’t kill local population. In North Africa it was only brutal mithraist christian Byzantine colonisers that were fought and driven away and the local population denounced filthy mithraist pagan christianity and embraced Islam. This was exactly what happened when Muslims sacked mithraist christian Byzantine colonisers from Egypt, syria, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine and other Asian nations

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 26, 2018 at 11:30 pm

        The dishonest Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

        Liar Gravenimage, contrary to what you ignorant liars and Mr spencer have been ranting when Muslims conquered a nation they don’t kill local population.
        ………………………….

        Muslims come in and slaughter as many of the locals as they need to to force surrender. Then they oppress, enslave, humiliate, rape, and murder the survivors. This is how Muslim conquest works everywhere.

        More:

        In North Africa it was only brutal mithraist christian Byzantine colonisers that were fought and driven away and the local population denounced filthy mithraist pagan christianity and embraced Islam.
        ………………………….

        What tripe. The Byzantines were not colonizers–North Africa had been Roman for centuries. The Byzantine Empire was also know as the Eastern Roman Empire–they were simply the successors of Rome.

        Of course, Ibrahim itace muhammed is unable to cite any evidence that Christians and Jews in the Levant and Mahgreb were entreating Muslims to conquer and slaughter them.

        If Muslims are ever able to conquer the free West–God forbid!–Muslims will claim that the “filthy Christians” begged Muslims to free them from democracy and liberty. Ludicrous revisionist history.

        Ibrahim itace muhammed believes that Christians *want* Muslims to oppress and murder them.

        More:

        This was exactly what happened when Muslims sacked mithraist christian Byzantine colonisers from Egypt, syria, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine and other Asian nations
        ………………………….

        Ah…right. Because freeing people always involves sacking and pillaging. Try again, Mohammedan.

      • J D S says

        Sep 27, 2018 at 9:07 am

        Ibrahim ….They embraced Islam back then and they might as well be dead today. No Progress. What has Islamic countries ever produced? Except oil in the mid east and American ingenuity actually did that.

  3. Guy Forester says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    The way to deal with the Ottoman empire was demonstrated by President Jefferson. Whenever we try to placate these tyrants and be allies with them, it comes back to bite us. We should never have allowed Gulen to camp out here, and we need to distance ourselves from Erdogan. Neither of them are our friends.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 6:42 pm

      +1

      • Guy Forester says

        Sep 25, 2018 at 7:18 pm

        Thank you

  4. underbed cat says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 7:00 pm

    Gulen Islamic schools in the U.S. ….this story proves Turkey and Islamic Republics are allies with major problems for the U.S. that only information about their doctrine can explain the OIC, and other organizations called moderate when they need to present as moderate. Just wondering if the administration see’s these articles and it is brought to the attention of the state they are in such as PA and the right people who advise.The string has been pulled to uncover the problem and those who want to suppress this are truly far left and it also is critically urgent that the borders and cities stop harboring , that already have large pools of travelers that are a threat to the elections, public, safety of the citizens and the constitution in a perverted way using our laws and deception to gain enough creds to change it in their goal to bring sharia terror. in my opinion.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 26, 2018 at 11:34 pm

      Yes–the Gulen schools here are a definite threat.

  5. underbed cat says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 7:04 pm

    Just to add Erdoghan islamic vs Gulen Islamic…one influence operation fighting another?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 26, 2018 at 11:37 pm

      Alien vs. Predator…

  6. ConnectingDots says

    Sep 26, 2018 at 8:48 am

    I know an American senior in one of Gulen’s Harmony Charter Schools, which she has attended since sixth grade. Harmony’s Turkish teachers have brainwashed her to the point that she makes a “Muslims died, too!” excuse for the 9/11 attacks by jihadis. Search the Web for the Wall Street Journal investigative report about Gulen and Harmony. Unwitting American parents send their children to Harmony without realizing that Harmony promotes STEM education as a Trojan horse to promote Islam and sharia. Perhaps just as bad, Harmony has low educational standards. Two examples: Harmony has Turkish teachers teaching Spanish, and Harmony let the aforementioned high-school senior earn an “A” in Spanish I *three* times.

    Gulen seems to have bought his safe presence in the USA by piggybacking on the good intentions of charter-school proponents while making a fortune from school-district tax-dollars in the process.

    Erdogan and Gulen are two peas in a pod.

    • Guy Forester says

      Sep 26, 2018 at 12:58 pm

      Always follow the money. If Gulen suddenly starts to make substantial cash donations to either Erdogan’s political party or a favorite “charity” they will suddenly become BFF.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 26, 2018 at 11:46 pm

      Very disturbing.

  7. Sam says

    Sep 26, 2018 at 10:28 am

    Well this is not new. Muslims have been operating in America to further their Jihad like CAIR & FBI “cooperation’ for a while

    The difference is they are more vocal about it as they get away with it Thanks to our PC culture.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 26, 2018 at 11:49 pm

      Grimly true, Sam.

  8. John Reynolds says

    Sep 26, 2018 at 11:20 am

    I wonder if they have located my contribution yet … https://www.facebook.com/0Point6/?modal=admin_todo_tour

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