From
my first brief reading of this, it appears to present a more complete
picture about what has been going on historically with Turkey, and all
the US, the CIA, Ataturk, Gulen, Erdogan, Islam, connections. And the
essence of much of this is it is another CIA-USA-CORP scheme to “take
down those ‘evil’ Russians”.” Enough already!Here is a Kp blog posting of an earlier article by Mr. Engdahl.
[Jim Dean] “Mr. Engdahl brings an excellent deep background review of the infamous Fethullah Gülen, something very hard to do because it is such a large and complex batch of material to condense for the public to be able to grasp. This is the best I have seen… Gulen’s operation is such a well known CIA project that one wonders what its intelligence value can be when so exposed…
“Erdogan’s tearing down of the Gulen organization puts him on a collision course with the US and CIA, and pushes him into the Russian sphere of influence, as Gulen’s operation has long been targeted against the former Soviet Union States.
[article] “Since the failed coup attempt in Turkey of July 15 there has been much speculation in western media that it in fact was all engineered by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to provide him with the pretext to impose emergency rule and to jail any and all opposition to his rule.
“At this point evidence still suggests that that was not at all the case. Rather, as I wrote at the time when it was clear the coup attempt was collapsing, it was a coup initiated by the CIA acting through their primary asset inside Turkey, the networks of their fugitive Turkish asset Fethullah Gülen. When we examine more closely “what” is Fethullah Gülen he is anything but the grandfatherly image of a 75-year-old soft-spoken Islamic moderate, scholar and Imam.
“What’s becoming clear is that the failed coup was in fact a dry-run, a dress rehearsal by Gülen’s controllers in Langley to see how Erdogan would react, in order to recalibrate and prepare for a more serious attempt in the future. Washington was not at all happy with the foreign policy turn of Erdoğan turning to reconcile with Russia and possibly also with Syria’s Assad.
“Fethullah Gülen is not a “who” but, rather, it is a “what.” The what is one of the most extensive and elaborate surrogate warfare networks ever created by the United States intelligence community…
“As they were deploying Osama bin Laden’s Arab Mujahideen “holy warriors” into Chechnya and the Caucasus during the 1990s, the CIA, working with a network of self-styled “neo-conservatives” in Washington, began to build their most ambitious political Islam project ever.It was called the Fethullah Gülen Movement, also known in Turkish as Cemaat, or “The Society.” Their focus was Hizmet, or what they defined as the “duty of Service” to the Islamic community. Curiously enough, the Turkish movement was based out of Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.
“The projects sponsored by Gülen-inspired followers today number in the thousands, span international borders and…include over 2000 schools and seven universities in more than ninety countries in five continents… Gülen and his movement aim at nothing less than to roll-back the remains of… modern, secular Kemalism in Turkey, and return to the Caliphate of yore. In one of his writings to members, he declared, “With the patience of a spider we lay our net until people get caught in it.”
“CIA Gives Wolf Sheep’s Clothing… Unlike the CIA’s Mujahideen Jihadists,… the CIA decided to give Fethullah Gülen a radically different image. No blood-curdling, head-severing, human-heart-eating Jihadist, Fethullah Gülen was presented to the world as a man of “peace, love and brotherhood,”…
“Today Gülen’s spider web of control via infiltration of the Turkish national police, military and judiciary, as well as education is being challenged by Erdogan as never before. It remains to be seen of the CIA will be successful in a second coup attempt. If the model of Brazil is any clue, it will likely come after a series of financial attacks on the Lira and the fragile Turkish economy, something already begun by the rating agency S&P.”
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NEO – What is Fethullah Gülen?by F. William Engdahl, … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
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