1 It’s not a black & white #Gulen versus #Erdogan movie folks: (pre-coup attempt) a Gulen associated newspaper, Today’s Zaman, had been shut down by Erdogan following its’ reporting Turkey’s intelligence agency MIT was doing business with Islamic State (supplying arms) @NewsBud_
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2 as well MIT had facilitated supplying the sarin components used by al-Qaida at Ghouta, Syria in August 2013 (blamed in western media on Assad.) The journalists were jailed. The CHP deputies (members of parliament) who’d produced the sarin investigative files...
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3 (by now jailed investigating police and judges) have since had their immunity lifted. The main opposition CHP (Republican People’s Party), also under repression, can hardly be accused of any historic sympathy for Gulen. The censored reporting checks out as absolutely legitimate
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4 and had been doing the CIA no favors. So, who did the shutting down of Today’s Zaman benefit? It follows, the post-coup attempt Gulen ‘fifth column’ purge argument is simplistic, inaccurate, serves as cover for a much wider purge on behalf of the blossoming dictator Erdogan
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5 and as well has been about shutting up news outlets exposing Erdogan as complicit in CIA associated crimes;as many more journalists have since been arrested.It’s not a black & white Gulen versus Erdogan movie folks.If the CHP has been recently linking up with the Gulen movement
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6 it is most certainly survival driven. Then there's reporting on the (not so small) matter of Islamic State doing the bulk of its oil exports via Erdogan’s Turkey, as noted previously by the Russians among others (as well admitted by the Pentagon.)https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2016/08/01/about-those-nato-nukes-kept-in-turkey/ …
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7 #NATO is about to come apart at the seams, as Turkey had been their historic under-belly access to Russia and storage site of up to 100 tactical nuclear weapons, guarded by Erdogan’s military. No one should envy the blackmail our Pentagon will be required to perform...
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