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The purge ( and the whitelists) are lower level followers of the Fethullah Gulen ( a Muslim Imam settled in Pennsylvania ) sect, a cold war religious network wh
by diminish 10y ago
The purge ( and the whitelists) are lower level followers of the Fethullah Gulen ( a Muslim Imam settled in Pennsylvania ) sect, a cold war religious network which penetrated a vast part of state apparatus as part of a Nato plan to prevent a communist revolution to move the country towards the Soviets which is part of the Super Gladio. During this 30 years the Gulen people in full secrecy, stole national exam papers for many institutions, blackmailed and jailed and sometimes killed anyone on their roads. Erdogan, EU and USA saw them as best friends to secretly mute any opposition.
After 2012 Obama's reluctance of putting American soldiers on the ground paved the way for Pentagon/CIA to intervene by toppling governments in middle East and Africa and use killer drones to kill enemies. As democratically elected Erdogan and CIA's best friend Gulen went into a full stage war on who is going to manage the county, the weird Washington network (read Michael Rubin and Stratfor) made a last ditch effort to topple the democratically elected government of Turkey by using the alien chestburst tactic with Gulen sect. The members of the sect failed as they don't have a strong idea to offer to he people except finding some support in Washington and Europe.
NYT echoes part of the small Washington circle pissed off because the coup failed.
Turkey is a sophisticated semi industrialized country with strong globalization and A military coup by a religious actor won't work here as opposed to Sisi's in Egypt.
Actually we are living the seismic after effects of the fall of the Soviets, as Nato, EU and Nafta, South Asia all face major changes in coming years.
So don't worry too much about Turks. we ll do fine. In a couple of years there is an increased chance that democratically new movements will win against Erdogan.
No dramas and if you need dramas look at every Western country with their own major problems.