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The Grand Turk
Turkey jails Gulen's brother for over 10 years
2018-10-02
[AlAhram] The brother of a US-based preacher accused of criminal masterminding the failed 2016 coup in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
was jugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
for more than 10 years on Monday, Ottoman Turkish state media said.

Kutbettin Gulen is the brother of Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, who is accused by Ankara of staging the bid to oust President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
.

A court in the Aegean city of Izmir sentenced Kutbettin Gulen, who was first detained in October 2016, to 10 years and six months in jail, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.

He had been charged with "membership of an armed terror group".

Kutbettin Gulen, who is held in jail in the nearby region of Denizli, did not take part in the hearing in person but his lawyer was present, Anadolu said.

Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally who has lived in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999, has denied orchestrating the July 15, 2016 coup plot that saw 250 killed, not including the plotters.

Gulen's supporters ridicule the description of his group by the Ottoman Turkish authorities as the Fethullah Terror Organisation (FETO), saying he merely runs a peaceful organization called Hizmet (Service).

But Ankara wants Gulen extradited from the United States and has expressed impatience over Washington's failure to hand him over, with the issue a major bone of contention in Turkey-US ties.

According to previous Ottoman Turkish media reports, Gulen has three living brothers, Mesih, Salih and Kutbettin, as well as two who are dead, Seyfullah and Hasbi. He also has two sisters, Nurhayat and Fazilet. Their current whereabouts are not known.

Tens of thousands of people have been enjugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in the crackdown that followed the failed coup in a sweep aimed at eradicating all influence of the Gulen movement in Turkey.

Kutbettin is the only sibling of Gulen believed to have been arrested in the crackdown, although at least two nephews have been jugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
.
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Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2018-10-02 21:12  

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