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A renowned Turkish police investigator, Hanefi Avci, is behind bars today, accused of having collaborated with a violent revolutionary organization. The charges make as much sense as Winston Churchill having been an undercover operative for Stalin.

To anyone but the most jaundiced observer, Avci’s real crime is obvious: he wrote a book in which he claimed that members of the Fethullah Gulen network within the police and the prosecutorial branch – followers of the U.S.-based Muslim spiritual leader –were using dirty tricks to frame and incarcerate perceived opponents.

Avci, a courageous and incorruptible police commander, can hardly be considered an ultra-secular, ultra-nationalist defender of the old guard. His worldviews are much closer to the Gulenists that he now accuses. That is what lent credibility to his charges and made his book such a bombshell. He now appears to have fallen victim to the kind of machinations that he exposed in his own book.

Ironically, Avci’s arrest comes on the same day that another story exposing the dirty tricks broke. This one concerns the famed Cage Plan, which is one of the alleged Ergenekon plots that the police and the prosecutors are supposed to have uncovered. The Cage Plan is an operation that is said to be hatched by members of the Ergenekon gang to harass and intimidate minorities. Police claim that it was discovered in encrypted form on a DVD found in a retired naval major’s office.

A forensic examination in the United States has revealed that the DVD in question does not contain any such plan. Wherever the plan may have originated from, the source wasn’t the retired officer who is currently in jail. Unbelievable as it sounds, the U.S. forensic expert – a founder of NYPD’s computer crimes investigation unit – says there is little doubt that the police and TUBITAK just made it up when they alleged that the DVD contained the plan. It looks like the Cage Plan was written by perpetrators with the express intent of framing a group of naval officers and their superiors. No surprise here if you have followed the Sledgehammer case.

Don’t expect the Turkish media to dwell on these remarkable developments at any length. Turkey’s nominally independent media is under tremendous pressure to toe the government line and not offend the Gulen movement. The Dogan media group, for example, is reeling under a huge tax fine imposed last year. The reporters and columnists who understand what is going are effectively silenced, while the government-friendly media (Zaman, Star, Sabah, and so on) spew endless disinformation.

It is very difficult not to get depressed about the state of the country. All the more so since much of the Western media (as well as Washington, DC and Brussels) appear to be clueless about these goings-on and what they reveal about the nature of the government in power.

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If you don't like what's happening in Turkey, consider how it's being fueled here in the US, all under the radar of the majority of Americans. The rapidly growing network of over a hundred charter schools run by followers of Fethullah Gulen across the US is adding greatly to the economic strength and political lobbying power of the Gulen Movement.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-08-17-turkishfinal17_CV_N.htm

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Claire Berlinski's recent piece in Standpoint touches on the Gulen Movement's manipulation of the media, which is happening here in the US too:
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Short story of what has been going on in Turkey since 2002 elections. Sorrow is; was it that vulnerable to these threads?

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Actually I never know what is going on in Turkey until I read this article. Thanks.

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Also it is good to now that at these Gulen Schools the Teachers tell the kids that Turkey all about relidious freedoms and respect and tolorance.

They lie to the media and give free Turkey trips to news agenices etc.

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Turkey's AKP is owned by Gulen, it is no secret that the majority of Turkish citizens do not like Gulen. Why do you think he lives in the USA in exile? Not just to count his $25 billion he has emassed from controlling: Education, politics, police, military and of course media. Gulen fears for his safety, so he hides behind the Hizmet.
take a look around in the USA he is trying the same domination with his foundations, charter schools and lobbying groups in Washington DC that Tax Payers are FUNDING via education fees that are laundered from the Charter schools
Rumi Forum and Assembly of Turkic American Federations in Washington. Gulen won't stop until he is in complete control

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I don't think the western media is clueless about the situation in Turkey. They just don't seem to care about conserving the secular structure in Turkey at all so they happily buy what the Gülen media serves them.

Fethullah Gülen's cult (a.k.a the Gülen Movement) is openly supported by the US government. Gülen, a barely literate man who has extremely little formal education was granted a green card by the same federal government on basis of his extraordinary achievements, whatever they may be. It is also not a secret that Gülen is protected by American secret service agents in his ranch at Pennsylvania.

United States is using this person and his evergrowing cult to convert Turkey into a moderate islamic semi-dictatorship. What good they will achieve out of this however is a mystery to me. Probably they just couldn't learn a lesson from their previous mistakes like supporting Al Queda and Osama bin Laden against the former USSR and probably not afraid of a similar blowback. Or maybe they are outright dumb. Beats me. However, this is the situation in Turkey today, plain and simple.

Considering these facts, it is easy to conclude that your late efforts regarding your father in law are and most likely will remain quite fruitless. Instead of writing stuff at your weblog maybe you should start looking for connections high up in the CIA. They surely have the power to order Gülen to order his subordinates in Turkey to set your relative free. Believe me that would be a much more realistic attempt.

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Professor Rodrik, I urge you to not follow the advice of the person who says "Instead of writing stuff at your weblog..." I feel for your situation with your father-in-law, and indeed for all families caught up in the net of the AKP/Gulen obsession with power and disregard for human rights. But this is about something much bigger than any one individual. We need people like you to keep writing about this, because Americans need to be informed about the truth. The AKP/Gulen nexus has for years now been aiming a massive propaganda effort at the US, with substantial success. Knowledgeable people such as yourself must speak out to counteract this.

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What a revealing article by Rodrik that tells us what REALLY takes place in Turkey.

And, our current administration along with heads of European governments still SUPPORT semi dictator Erdogan+Gulen civil dictatorial taking place ever strongly in Turkey for the last 8+ years.

I saw students beaten up brutally by police when they tried to voice up their right for free public education. Illegal wiretapping by Gulen Cult police force effectively shut down any independent media, business people, academicians, and judges. And, the western media (hello NY Times, bastion of All the news fit to print, BBC, NPR and the rest..) combined with our governments simply let(!) a civil dictatorial takes hold in the only secular country with majority of its population is Muslim.

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