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The Grand Turk
Turkey freezes assets of 770 people for alleged terror links
2021-12-25
The Turkish treasury is ever hungry, with all their sultanly adventures abroad to be funded. So the next lot of enemy Gulenists has been rounded up for sacrifice. ISIS and Al Nusra are legit jihadis, and the PKK is only to be expected whenever anyone else is on the block.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
froze the assets of 770 Ottoman Turkish nationals and a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
-based foundation, according to a decision published Friday in the country's official gazette.

The list of targets includes 454 people with alleged links to Moslem holy man 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. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost...
, who lives in the United States. The Ottoman Turkish government accuses Gulen and his network of being behind a bloody coup attempt in 2016. Gulen has denied the allegation.

Gulen is the honorary president of the Chicago foundation that had its assets in Turkey frozen. The Niagara Foundation's parent organization, the Alliance for Shared Values, is a nonprofit of the Gulen movement, which Turkey designated as a terror group.

The list published Friday shows 119 other people had assets frozen for links to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, al-Qaeda, the al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front and other alleged ``terror groups that abuse religion.''

Another 108 people were targeted for alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK, which is designated a terror group by Turkey and the United States.

Eighty-nine people with alleged links to leftist groups designated as terror organizations were also listed in the ruling.

The decision was signed by Turkey's interior, treasury and finance ministers.
Related:
Gülen: 2021-07-17 Erdogan's revenge: Turkey since failed 2016 coup
Gülen: 2021-04-08 4 Turkish Former Soldiers Sentenced to Life for Attempted Coup
Gülen: 2020-12-09 Turkey orders the detention of 304 military personnel in an operation targeting supporters of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen
Related:
Alliance for Shared Values: 2016-02-02 Mystery surrounds Muslim cleric in US mountain compound
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