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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.Turkish Presidency / Photos Depo via ZUMA
Does the name Fethullah Gulen tell you anything? Maybe not. Gulen is a 77-year-old Turkish religious who has resided in the United States for 20 years and is the deadly enemy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for about five years. The question of what Gulen and his movement of Gulenists did during this period is complicated, but what matters for the moment is that, rightly or wrongly, Erdoğan is convinced that Gulen wants to overthrow his government and is at the origin of the failure attempt. 2016. Erdoğan wants to extradite Gulen from the United States, but has not been able to provide evidence that Gulen is responsible for any kind of terrorist activity. Because of this, Gulen continues to calm his feet in his Pennsylvania home.
It's dark, but I'll add something you may have forgotten. A year ago the the Wall Street newspaper forwarded a remarkable story about Michael Flynn, the national security advisor appointed by Donald Trump at the end of 2016 and who was then fired in early 2017. NewspaperFlynn and his son met in 2016 with Erdoğan associates who proposed to donate $ 15 million to Flynns for Gulen's secret kidnapping and his flight to Turkey. It was in September, while Flynn was an excellent campaign substitute for Trump. A second meeting took place in December, after Flynn had already been named NSA.
Now, is this kidnapping story real? We will probably never know for sure. But keep that in mind when you read this in NBC News:
The White House is looking for ways to eliminate an enemy of Turkish President Recep Erdoğan of the United States. in order to appease Turkey on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to two senior US officials and two other people informed of the requests. Last month, Trump administration officials urged federal law enforcement agencies to examine the legal means of removing the exiled Turkish religious, Fethullah Gulen, in an attempt to persuade Erdoğan to reduce pressure on the Saudi government, said these four sources.
The effort includes instructions to the Ministry of Justice and the FBI that officials reopen Turkey's case for extradition …."At first, the eyes got up, but once they realized that it was a serious request, the guys in their careers were furious," said a senior US official involved in the process.
So. The Saudis murder a critic of their regime on the Turkish soil. Trump refuses to say or say much about it, which naturally makes Erdoğan shit. Trump needs to develop a plan to fix it, and apparently taking murder seriously is out of the question. Instead, he concocts a foolish stratagem to bypass the caretakers of the Justice Department's career and order the simple extradition of Gulen, whether he is guilty or not.
By the way, that would effectively be a death sentence for Gulen. Welcome to Trumpocracy.²
"Yes I know.
"One of the problems with this case is that there are no good guys. Trump, Erdoğan and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia are all despots or aspirants with virtually no redemptive traits, while Gulen is a mystery. This makes it easy to shrug your shoulders and write it all as a kind of gang quarrel, but do not do it. Trump's actions are reprehensible anyway, and one of his worst character flaws is his relentless attempt to treat the Justice Department as a personal fiefdom dedicated to Donald Trump's defense and revenge. his enemies. This must be exposed and stopped at every possible opportunity.
