[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish security forces on Tuesday arrested over 500 individuals for alleged ties with the outlawed Gulen movement, the interior minister announced.
The Turkish treasury is nearly empty — time to refill it from Gulen bank accounts.
Ottoman Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Tuesday that security forces arrested 544 individuals in 62 provinces for alleged link with the Gulen movement, a group accused by Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, 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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...of being behind the July 2016 coup attempt.
The suspects were directed by the group leadership to take entrance exams to enter government institutions, according to Yerliakaya, adding that some of the suspects used the ByLock application, which is believed to be the secret communication app between the members of the organization.
"We will not leave members of FETO alone," Yerlikaya said, using the derogatory term for Gulen’s movement.
Influential Ottoman Turkish preacher 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...>
and his transnational movement, have been accused by Erdogan and the Ottoman Turkish government of orchestrating the 2016 failed coup attempt in
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
that killed more than 240 people. His movement was declared a terrorist organization just two months before the incident and a countrywide crackdown ensued to capture his followers.
Gulen, who has been living in the United States since 1999, has repeatedly denied involvement in the coup.
Regarded as one of the most influential figures in modern Ottoman Turkish politics, Gulen was once a key supporter of Erdogan's rise to power in mid-2000.
But their relationship abruptly ended in 2013 after a corruption scandal involving Erdogan’s closest circles pitted the two men against one other. The Ottoman Turkish president accused Gulen of creating a "parallel state" within Turkey.
Erdogan’s consolidation of power has been denounced by Gulen, who has referred to the Ottoman Turkish president as a "dictator" and has encouraged the US and European governments to do more to restore political freedoms in Turkey.
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