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2020-06-12 The Grand Turk
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Turkish Court Sentences US Consulate Employee to Prison Term Over Spying, Ties to Gulen
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[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
The case was one of the key issues souring the already deteriorating relations between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
and the US, along with Washington's reluctance to extradite 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...
, a major Ottoman Turkish opposition figure, which Ankara accuses of staging a military coup attempt.
A Ottoman Turkish court has sentenced US Consulate employee Metin Topuz to 8 years and 9 months in prison on charges of espionage and aiding a terrorist group. The US reacted to the news calling the court's decision disappointing.
Topuz, who was working as a liaison officer for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), is accused of contacting law enforcement officials linked to Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic scholar, major opposition figure, and a founder of the FETO movement. The Ottoman Turkish government believes Gulen and FETO were the criminal masterminds behind the botched 2016 military coup that sought to overthrow 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...
The US Consulate staffer denies all the charges levelled against him. Topuz insists that all of his contacts with Ottoman Turkish law enforcement officers were part of his job as the DEA liaison officer.
The arrest of the American Consulate employee in 2017 sparked a diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the US, who called the accusations against Topuz unsubstantiated. His arrest became one of the key issues spoiling the two states' bilateral relations along with Washington's refusal to hand over Gulen to the Ottoman Turkish judiciary system. 
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