[a_Turk]

Dani Rodrik is a professor at Harvard University, and the son-in-law of retired general Çetin Doğan, the lead defendant in the Sledgehammer case.

To read more about Gulen's operation in the US and elsewhere, please click: http://turkishinvitations.weebly.com/gulenist-non-profits.html

[hosepipe]

Pity... democracy sucks..
Its actually a dirty word..

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Democracy is the road to socialism. -Karl Marx

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. -V.I. Lenin

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism .-Karl Marx

[marron]

Good article. Naturally, it includes details I haven’t seen anywhere else.

Thanks for posting.

[ScreamingFist]

This explains, very clearly, why the Turkish military did not oust the Erdoğan government...... I'm afraid we have lost Turkiye to the radical muslims.....nothing good can come of this.

[KC_Lion]

This shows how Liberals threaten the fabric of cultures all around the world, They are truly scum

Great Post A_Truk, I didn't know about Operation Sledgehammer

[Sal]

Over 100 charter schools in America—3 in Arizona.

Quite a few years ago I asked your opinion on why the military wasn’t following their constitutional mandate to preserve secular government and you said it was more complicated than it might seem.

I took that to mean the Muslim Brotherhood had infiltrated the military, but I see that it goes way beyond that. Way beyond Turkey. Thanks for this article.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

[Intellectuals see the trials as a chance to make the accused accountable for the crimes of the past.] Given Turkey’s history of military coups, this is understandable; we saw things pretty much the same way until recently. What was much more difficult to fathom was these intellectuals’ unwillingness to question their beliefs in light of mounting evidence that the defendants had been framed. Many of Turkey’s leading “liberals” simply turned their backs on the evidence that we had amassed.

Their Zaman, et al. our state controlled American media (SCAM); their Fethullah Gülen, our George Soros; their media unbiased reporting now fearful, our Fox News reporting now reticent; their intellectual class willing to "go along" ours done gone along; their fake documents, our president's fake birth certificate; their intellectuals want to see punishment for the nation's crimes of the past, our "intellectuals" want to see our nation's crimes of the past, present and future punished.

Lot similarity there. Oh.. one difference, a huge percentage -- last I heard 40 percent -- of Turkish adults oppose Islamism and Sharia law and hundreds of thousands of them get out and demonstrate against Islamism and Sharia law. That's the one difference. Our Muslims are silent or favor Islamism and Sharia law.. except for a handful of Muslims living here.

BTW, a nation scarred by a history of military coups? Scarred? What's the problem? They prefer an Islamic republic to replace Turkey's constitutional republic?

[TomasUSMC]

Democracy and islum don’t mix.

[piasa]

A former U.S. ambassador to Turkey during 2003–2005, Eric Edelman, has revealed that he was passed fake coup documents by an individual connected to the Gülen movement. A police commissioner, who had been a Gülen sympathizer, published an expose this summer in which he wrote that the Gülenists were resorting to widespread illegal wiretaps and evidence fabrication, creating a state within the state.

Interesting given that the Gulen movement in the US state of Pennsylvania is known for being a donation bundler for Hillary Clinton.

[piasa]

Interesting timing on the forgeries... Hillary Clinton was Sec of State ...Gulen is a Hillary campaign donor/bundler, and the liberals on both sides of the Atlantic wanted to undermine the Turkish military which they view as a threat to “democracy” even though it’s the opposite, protecting the country from radical islam.

[piasa]

Just sticking this on here because of all the Khashoggi/Turkey/Flynn talk:

JANUARY 2010 : (TURKEY : AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE DELIVERS A SUITCASE FULL OF WHAT APPEAR TO BE SECRET MILITARY DOCUMENTS TO A NEWSPAPER REPORTER; ERDOGAN AND THE MEDIA READILY ACCEPT THE DOCUMENTS...) Details of the alleged plot have gripped the nation ever since an anonymous source delivered a suitcase full of what appeared to be secret military documents to a newspaper reporter in January 2010. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan and other AKP leaders have openly lent support and credibility to the charges. With few exceptions, mainstream commentators have also accepted the claims at face value. The prosecutors have produced a 1,000-page long indictment, along with supporting documentation running into tens of thousands of pages. When we arrived in Turkey (my wife is the daughter of Çetin Doğan, the lead defendant in the case), the trial had just started in Silivri, on the grounds of a prison in the outskirts of Istanbul. Our mission seemed quixotic and presumptuous at best. And yet, stripped of all the frenzy and disinformation that surrounds the case, the facts were abundantly clear. The coup plot documents on which the charges are based were obvious forgeries. ----- Democracy in Turkey, The National Interest ^ | February 11, 2011 | Dani Rodrik Posted on ‎7‎/‎24‎/‎2011‎ ‎4‎:‎39‎:‎26‎ ‎PM by a_Turk

[piasa]

Sounds like our "woke" BLM / Social Media censorship movement and what it has done to discourse in the US:

The Gülenists don’t control all media in Turkey, and neither does the government. But in our contacts with other segments of the mainstream media, we encountered another worrying leitmotif: fear. We heard story after story about self-censorship and refusal to engage with subjects that might offend the Gülen movement or the government. Journalists complained about intimidation, and anchormen told us during commercial breaks about the risk they were taking by interviewing us. A very well respected journalist, known for his middle-of-the-road views, told us that for the first time in his professional career he was worried about his future. This is not all based on paranoia: the country’s largest independent media company is reeling under a huge tax fine, imposed for what is commonly believed to be political reasons."