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The U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkish leader Reccep Tayyip Erdogan, has died. Since the failed coup, his movement has been systematically dismantled in Turkey and its influence has declined internationally. Soon after the 2016 coup, Erdogan described Gulen’s network as traitors and “like a cancer”, vowing to root them out wherever they are. The Turkish government said its actions were justified by the gravity of the threat posed to the state by the coup. Gulen had travelled to the United States for medical treatment but remained there as he faced a criminal investigation in Turkey.
Persons: Fethullah Gulen, Reccep Tayyip Erdogan, Gulen, Erdogan, , Erdogan’s Organizations: U.S, AK Party, Prosecutors, Gulen, Reuters Locations: Turkey, U.S, United States, Turkish, Erzurum, Edirne, Izmir, Turkey’s, Central Asia, Balkans, Africa, Gulen, Ankara, Pocono
An undated capture taken from a video shows Fetullah Gulen, leader of a group that the Turkish government alleges was behind the defeated 2016 coup in Turkiye and has designated the Fetullah Terrorist Organization's (FETO),. Social media accounts associated with the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) have claimed that the organization's ringleader, Fethullah Gulen, has died. The U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, has died. Gulen, who had lived in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999, denied involvement in the putsch but his movement was designated as a terrorist group by Turkey. Since the failed coup, his movement has been systematically dismantled in Turkey and its international influence has declined.
Persons: Fetullah Gulen, Fethullah, Fethullah Gulen, Tayyip Erdogan, Gulen, Erdogan, Hakan Fidan, Fidan Organizations: Fetullah Terrorist Locations: Turkiye, Fethullah Gulen, U.S, Turkey, United States, Turkish
CNN —Turkish Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, a longtime bitter rival of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who has been blamed for a deadly failed coup attempt in 2016, has died at age 83, according to Turkish officials and social media accounts linked to the cleric’s movement. The death of the US-based cleric was announced by Herkul Nagme, a news outlet associated with Gulen, on Monday. “Our religious leader the great Fethullah Gülen who dedicated his life to Islam and serving humanity has walked on to the horizon of his spirit,” it said on X, adding that he was undergoing treatment at hospital for some time. This is a developing story.
Persons: Fethullah Gulen, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Herkul Nagme, Gülen Organizations: CNN, Turkish, Gulen Locations: Islam
Explainer-What Turkey Gained in Delaying Sweden's NATO Bid
  + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +4 min
Turkey ratified Finland's bid in April 2023 but, along with NATO member Hungary, has kept Sweden waiting. While Erdogan sent Sweden's NATO bid to Turkey's parliament for consideration last October, he openly linked the F-16s with its ultimate ratification. WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF SWEDEN'S BID? Though Turkey was seen as the main hurdle, Hungary has also not ratified Sweden's bid. Hungary pledged not to be the last to ratify the bid, but its parliament is in recess until around mid-February.
Persons: Huseyin Hayatsever, Jonathan Spicer ANKARA, Tayyip Erdogan, Erdogan, Gunnar Strommer, Jens Stoltenberg, Thomas Goffus, Viktor Orban, Timothy Heritage Organizations: NATO, Ankara, Kurdistan Workers ' Party, European Union, Canada, U.S . Congress, Eurofighter Locations: Sweden, Finland, Ukraine, Turkey, Hungary, Stockholm, Helsinki, Washington, SWEDEN, FINLAND, Madrid, Kurdistan, Ankara, United States, Netherlands, SWEDEN'S
NATO, Turkish, Swedish and Finnish flags are seen in this illustration taken May 18, 2022. Last year, Stockholm reversed a ban on exporting military equipment to Turkey, without revealing details of companies or products. WHAT HAVE OTHER NATO MEMBERS DONE? In October, Erdogan sent Sweden's NATO bid to Turkey's parliament for consideration. But it has faced objections in the U.S. Congress over Turkey's delaying NATO enlargement and its human rights record.
Persons: Dado Ruvic, Tayyip Erdogan, Erdogan, Gunnar Strommer, Jens Stoltenberg, Thomas Goffus, Huseyin Hayatsever, Jonathan Spicer, Alex Richardson Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Turkish, NATO, Stockholm, Kurdistan Workers ' Party, European Union, Canada, SWEDEN GO, U.S . Congress, Kurdish, Hamas, U.S, Thomson Locations: Rights ANKARA, Ukraine, Turkey, Hungary, Sweden, Stockholm, Helsinki, Washington, SWEDEN, FINLAND, Madrid, Finland, Kurdistan, Ankara, United States, Netherlands, Brussels, Gaza
ANKARA, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Turkish forces have "neutralised" 58 Kurdish militants in northern Syria in overnight attacks on militant targets, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday, as conflict in the region escalated nearly a week after a bomb attack in Ankara. Since the bomb attack, Ankara has launched a barrage of air strikes and attacks against militant targets in northern Syria and Iraq, while ramping up security operations at home. The ministry said the operations, which it says are carried out under self-defence rights, had "neutralised" 58 militants in the region. Late on Friday, the ministry had said Turkey's military had conducted air strikes in northern Syria, destroying 15 militant targets where it said militants were believed to be. Turkey, which has mounted several incursions into northern Syria against the YPG, has said a ground operation into Syria is an option it could consider.
Persons: Olive Branch, Tayyip Erdogan, Fethullah Gulen, Jan Harvey Organizations: Turkish, Defence Ministry, Kurdistan Workers Party, Syrian Kurdish, Syrian SDF, AK, Saturday, Islamic, European Union, SDF, Islamic State, NATO, Thomson Locations: ANKARA, Syria, Ankara, Turkey, Syrian, Iraq, Olive, Islamic State, U.S, Turkish, United States, Washington
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s oldest film festival has been canceled amid controversy surrounding a politically sensitive documentary about the aftermath of a 2016 coup attempt. “Due to the mess created by their own hand,” the festival administration, artistic director and the entire artistic team were fired, he said. The documetary's director Nejla Demirci wrote on X Friday evening: “I am saddened to see, day by day, how negative attitudes have organized against a documentary film. Organizers had said they would remove “The Decree” from the film festival program. Festival director Ahmet Boyacioglu initially announced the film was removed from the national documentary category due to ongoing legal proceedings against one of the people featured.
Persons: Muhittin Bocek, , Fethullah Gulen, Gulen, , Critics, terminations, Nejla Demirci, Ahmet Boyacioglu Organizations: , Antalya, Orange, Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry, Culture Ministry, Turkish, U.S, Wednesday Locations: ISTANBUL, Turkish Culture, Turkey, Antalya
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Monday dropped charges against Bijan Kian, a onetime business partner of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn who had been accused of acting as an unregistered agent of the Turkish government. Prosecutors alleged that Kian and Flynn, who were partners in an entity called the Flynn Intel Group, were acting at Turkey’s behest when they undertook a project to discredit exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen. Among other factors, he cited evidence that an actual conspiracy involved Flynn and Alptekin, with Kian excluded from the arrangement. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia declined to comment on why prosecutors decided to drop the case. Flynn, who received a presidential pardon in 2020, became a chief promoter of Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Persons: Bijan Kian, Michael Flynn, Kian, Robert Mueller’s, Flynn, Fethullah Gulen, Gulen, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Donald Trump's, Ruhollah Khomeini, Prosecutors, Kamal Alptekin, Anthony Trenga, Trenga's, Trenga, Alptekin, Mark MacDougall, Rafiekian —, Rafiekian, ” MacDougall Organizations: , National Security, Prosecutors, Flynn Intel Group, U.S, Circuit, Appeals, Attorney's, of, Justice Department Locations: Va, Turkish, U.S, Turkey, Trenga, Eastern, of Virginia
Erdogan's milestones as Turkey faces May 28 runoff vote
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +8 min
[1/2] Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan greets supporters at the AK Party headquarters in Ankara, Turkey May 15, 2023. August 2001: He establishes the Justice and Development Party, or AK Party (AKP), and is elected chairman. November 2002: The AKP wins elections with nearly 35% of votes after the worst economic slump since the 1970s, promising to break with past mismanagement and recessions. June 2018: Erdogan wins snap presidential elections. Though his popularity has suffered due to a cost-of-living crisis, Erdogan wins more votes than his rival but falls short of the 50% threshold needed to win in the first round, teeing up a May 28 runoff.
CNN —For Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s longest serving ruler, Sunday’s upcoming election may be the end of a two-decade winning streak. Following an attempted coup to unseat Erdogan, the Russian president called his Turkish counterpart and offered his country’s support. Still, it was not enough to change the eastern tilt of Turkish foreign policy. Whether Erdogan wins or loses, Ankara is unlikely to untangle itself from Moscow and turn back to the West. (The Turkish president has previously dismissed concerns about press freedom in his country).
The May 14 vote, which lands during the Turkish Republic's centenary year, is Erdogan's biggest test yet. At the same time, a global reversal in market liquidity left Turkey and other emerging markets starved for funding. But the economic crisis was damaging. This trend accelerated in 2013, wiping out big gains made in 2006-2010 during Erdogan's first decade in charge. "If Erdogan wins the election and continues his economic policy it will come to a complete crash at one point.
Erdogan's milestones before Turkey's election
  + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +8 min
August 2001: He establishes the Justice and Development Party, or AK Party (AKP), and is elected chairman. In his early days, Erdogan tours Europe and the United States to promote his policies and advance Turkey's bid to join the European Union. May 2013: Protests against Erdogan's plans to redevelop Istanbul's Gezi Park accelerate into unprecedented nationwide demonstrations over what critics see as his authoritarianism. March 2019: Nationwide municipal elections produce Erdogan's first electoral defeat in nearly two decades. The lira hits all-time lows, inflation soars to its highest levels during Erdogan's rule, and his approval ratings sink.
[1/2] Hywind Tampen floating wind farm structures are being assembled at the Wergeland Base in Gulen, Norway, June 7, 2022. But by 2035, the LCOE for floating wind is expected to fall to about 60 euros/MWh. It plans to set a specific target for floating wind this year. Britain aims to have 5 GW of floating wind installed by 2030 but a report by the UK Floating Wind Offshore Wind Taskforce, said 34 GW could be installed by 2040 if ports were upgraded. "South Korea will be commercial the quickest," said Cole at Corio Generation, which has 1.5 GW of floating wind under development there.
Many in Turkey say more people could have survived the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the south of the country and neighboring Syria a week ago if the emergency response had been faster and better organized. Two experts consulted by Reuters partly blamed the delays on the centralisation of emergency response under AFAD by President Tayyip Erdogan's government. U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths, speaking in Kahramanmaras on Saturday, called Turkey's disaster response "extraordinary" given the quake's historic size. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said he commissioned the report precisely to improve Turkey's disaster response. But they have generally seen the state's emergency response as effective.
Sweden says Turkey asking too much over NATO application
  + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
[1/2] Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaks during the annual Society and Defence Conference in Salen, Sweden, January 8, 2023. TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery via REUTERSSTOCKHOLM, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Sweden is confident that Turkey will approve its application to join the NATO military alliance, but will not meet all the conditions Ankara has set for its support, Sweden's prime minister said on Sunday. "Turkey both confirms that we have done what we said we would do, but they also say that they want things that we cannot or do not want to give them," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told a defence think-tank conference in Sweden. Finland and Sweden signed a three-way agreement with Turkey in 2022 aimed at overcoming Ankara's objections to their membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "From time to time, Turkey mentions individuals that they want to see extradited from Sweden.
STOCKHOLM, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Talks between Sweden and Turkey are progressing well and Stockholm hopes Ankara will ratify the Nordic country's NATO application well before an alliance summit in July, Sweden's foreign minister said on Thursday. "Things are progressing well, we had an excellent meeting today," Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told Reuters after meeting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara. The NATO application has so far been ratified by 28 of the 30 member countries. "We hope that we can become members at the NATO summit in Vilnius in July, at the latest," Billstrom said. Billstrom said Sweden had an independent judiciary and that there was nothing the government could do to change such decisions.
ANKARA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Sweden on Friday extradited a Kurdish man with alleged links to terrorism to Turkey as Ankara keeps up pressure on the Nordic country to meet its demands in return for NATO membership, Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported on Saturday. Mahmut Tat had sought asylum in Sweden in 2015 after being sentenced in Turkey for six years and 10 months for alleged links to the Kurdish militant group the PKK. Turkish state television TRT said Tat was sent to an Istanbul prison on Saturday. Turkey said on Wednesday that Sweden and Finland had made progress towards NATO membership but that they still needed to do more to satisfy Ankara's demands on tackling terrorism. Others wanted by Ankara are people with alleged links to Fethullah Gulen - a Turkish cleric who lives in the United States and is accused of orchestrating 2016 failed coup attempt against Erdogan.
Organizația internațională pentru drepturile omului Human Rights Watch a numit răpirea cetățeanului kirghiz Orhan Inandi de către serviciile speciale turcești „o ignorare nemiloasă a legilor și normelor de drept internațional”, realatează Kloop. „Orhan Inandi, directorul unei rețele de școli de prestigiu din Kârgâzstan, a devenit ultima victimă a serviciilor speciale turcești, implicate în transferul ilegal în Turcia a mai multor persoane din întreaga lume”, comentează răpirea lui Inandi Human Rights Watch. *Confruntarea dintre Erdogan și Gulen s-a intensificat în 2016. În plus, în urmă cu doi ani, Turcia a depus o cerere de extrădare a lui Orhan Inandi. În același an, Turcia a cerut extrădarea a doi angajați ai rețelei Zapat, pe profesorii de liceu Sinan Yilmaz și Sanjar Abdulhakim.
Persons: Orhan Inandi, El, Erdogan, Gulen, Hugh Williamson, Zhaparov, Inandi ., Sinan Yilmaz, Williamson, Ahmet Dogan, Inandi Organizations: Securitate, Ministerul, Externe, Universală Locations: Turcia, Kârgâzstan, Kenya, Ankara, Turciei, Europa, Asia Centrală, kirghiz, turc, Republicii Turcia
Procurorii din Turcia au emis mandate de arestare pe numele a 532 de oameni, presupuşi susţinători ai clericului Fethullah Gülen, acuzat de organizarea puciului eşuat din vara anului 2016. Majoritatea dintre ei sunt militari activi. Doar la Istanbul au fost arestaţi 258 de oameni, printre care patru colonei, un locotenent-colonel, nouă maiori şi 24 de căpitani. În timpul puciului de acum cinci ani au murit peste 250 de oameni. Ulterior, au fost reţinute aproximativ 80 de mii de persoane, iar în jur de 160 de mii de funcţionari şi militari au fost demişi sau suspendaţi din funcţii.
Locations: Turcia, Istanbul, funcţii
Sursa foto: romanialibera.roCEDO: Turcia, condamnată sever pentru detenţia jurnalistului Ahmet AltanCurtea Europeană a Drepturilor Omului (CEDO) a condamnat sever Turcia pentru detenţia cunoscutului jurnalist şi scriitor Ahmet Altan, urmărit în justiţie pentru presupusa lui implicare în puciul eşuat din iulie 2016, transmite AFP. În noiembrie 2019, poliţia turcă l-a arestat pe Ahmet Altan la numai o săptămână după ce a fost eliberat din închisoare în urma reluării procesului în care a fost acuzat de legături cu tentativa de lovitură de stat din 2016, scrie Agerepres. Altan fusese închis din septembrie 2016, la două luni după eşecul puciului din Turcia împotriva preşedintelui Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Autorităţile de la Ankara acuză de organizarea loviturii de stat reţeaua clericului Fethullah Gulen, stabilit în SUA. Organizaţii pentru drepturile omului şi aliaţii occidentali ai Turciei consideră că în acest caz, ca şi în altele, au fost încălcate drepturi fundamentale.
Persons: Ahmet Altan Organizations: Drepturilor, CEDO Locations: Turcia, detenţia, justiţie, preşedintelui Recep, Ankara, SUA, Turciei
Unul dintre profesorii turci expulzați din Moldova va primi statut de refugiat. Nicolae Frumosu, avocatul acestuia, a comunicat pentru NewsMaker că decizia respectivă a fost emisă de Curtea de Apel Chișinău. În prezent, el este în detenție în Turcia: decizia instanței moldovenești nu poate influența direct asupra contestării arestării sale. După ce a fost expulzat din Moldova, el a fost condamnat acolo la nouă ani de închisoare. Menționăm că Çelebi a trăit și a lucrat în Moldova din anul 2014 și a solicitat azil în țara noastră.
Persons: Çelebi, Müjdat Çelebi, Avocatul, Çelebi ., ., Hasan Biriș, Facebook ., Serghei Furtună, Bayraktar, Furtună, Hasan, Celebi Organizations: Apel Chișinău, Apel, Orizont, Curtea Europeană Locations: Moldova, Moldovei, Turcia, Apel Chișinău, Frumosu, Turciei, Chișinău, Republica Moldova, Durleşti, Bălți, Ceadâr, Lunga
Potrivit instituției, cele mai răsunătoare cinci cazuri pe care R. Moldova le-a pierdut la Curtea Europeană a Drepturilor Omului (CtEDO) sunt cauzele: Ilașcu ş.a. 3 c. Moldovei şi Rusiei, Becciev c. Moldovei, Șarban c. Moldovei, Iordache și alții c. Moldovei, Ozdil și alții c. Moldovei. CtEDO a considerat aceste refuzuri formale și a menționat că îndepărtarea lor din R. Moldova a pus capăt integrării lor în societate și le-a afectat viața personală și de familie. CtEDO a constatat că reținerea și „îndepărtarea” profesorilor din R. Moldova le-a încălcat dreptul la libertate și siguranță, dar și dreptul la respectarea vieții private și de familie. Până la 30 iunie 2020, CtEDO a pronunțat 461 de hotărâri în care a constatat 616 violări ale CEDO de către statul R. Moldova.
Persons: Ilașcu, Moldovei, Iordache, MOLDOVEI, RUSIEI Ilie Ilașcu, Alexandru, Andrei Ivanţoc, Tudor Petrov, Popa, ., CtEDO, Ea, Ilie Ilașcu, Becciev, Vladimir Şarban, Iordachi, interceptărilor Organizations: Curtea Europeană, Drepturilor, RUSIEI, Convenția Europeană, CEDO, Interne, Primăria Locations: Moldova, Rusiei, Moldovei, . Moldova, Federației Ruse, Federația Rusă, MOLDOVEI, Canal, mun . Chişinău, Chişinău, Primăria Chişinău, Curte, turce, Turcia, CEDO
Aceste persoane au fost declarate vinovate de „tentativă de răsturnare a ordinii constituţionale”, de „tentativă de asasinare a preşedintelui” şi de „omucideri voluntare”, conform unui rezumat al sentinţei judecătoreşti obţinut de France Presse. Până acum, tribunalele au condamnat aproape 4.500 de persoane, aplicând pedepse cu închisoare pe viaţă pentru mai mult de 3.000 dintre ele, conform cifrelor oficiale. Evenimentul, care a traumatizat Turcia, a declanşat epurări de amploare şi l-a determinat pe preşedintele Erdogan să-şi extindă prerogativele. Peste 520 de persoane sunt judecate într-un proces având legătură cu activităţile gărzii prezidenţiale în timpul puciului eşuat. Nu mai puţin de 290 de procese legate de tentativa de puci s-au încheiat deja, în timp ce alte nouă continuă.
Persons: Erdogan Organizations: France, Parlamentul Locations: turce Ankara, Turcia, Ankara, SUA
Evenimentul, care a traumatizat Turcia, a declanşat epurări de amploare şi l-a determinat pe preşedintele Erdogan să-şi extindă prerogativele. Ankara îl acuză pe predicatorul Fethullah Gülen, un fost aliat al lui Erdogan, de orchestrarea tentativei de puci. Mai multe zeci de mii de persoane au fost arestate şi peste 140.000 au fost destituite sau suspendate din funcţie. Peste 520 de persoane sunt judecate într-un proces având legătură cu activităţile gărzii prezidenţiale în timpul puciului eşuat. Până acum, tribunalele au condamnat aproape 4.500 de persoane, aplicând pedepse cu închisoare pe viaţă pentru mai mult de 3.000 dintre ele, conform cifrelor oficiale.
Persons: Erdogan Organizations: France, Parlamentul Locations: turce Ankara, Turcia, Ankara, SUA, justiţie, Statul, Turciei
„Vreau să felicit poporul american la finalul acestei perioade electorale şi pe Donald Trump pentru victoria sa. Însă în ceea ce-l privește pe Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin are suficiente motive de îngrijorare. Turcia probabil că va avea mai mult de pierdut decât alte țări de pe urma victoriei lui Joe Biden. Totuși, chinezii de rând spun că sunt ușurați că a câștigat Biden și speră că va fi pace. În ceea ce-l privește pe premierul Israelului, Benjamin Netanyahu, aliat apropiat al lui Donald Trump, el l-a felicitat pe Joe Biden, dar fără să-l numească președinte ales, remarcă The Guardian.
Persons: Președintele Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, Trump, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Putin, Serghei Markov, Vladimir Putin, Președintele, Obama, Leonid Sluțki, Duma de Stat, Biden, Aleksei Navalnîi, Kamalei Harris, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Erdogan, Xi, Teheranul, Hassan Rouhani, Arabiei Saudite, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: The, Rusia, NATO, Albă, Ministerul, Externe, NBC News, Turcia, Trump, Arabiei, Partidul Democrat Locations: Statelor Unite, Tork Times, Statele Unite, Kremlin, american, Washington, Moscova, America, Rusia, Ucraina, n.r ., România, Duma de, Rusiei, America Latină, Braziliei, Mexicului, Turciei, Ankara, Guineea, Turcia, SUA, China, Chinei, Beijing, Iranului, Yemen, Israelului
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