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Turkish ministers' sons arrested
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Re: Turkish ministers' sons arrested
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2013, 18:47:47 PM »
They reckon on Al Jazeera - The Gulen Movement may have initiated this - what is this - the start of some powerful opposition ???

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« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2013, 18:55:11 PM »
The Gulen Movement, also known as Hizmet, have always been in opposition to RTE. They own the newspaper Today's Zamam.

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Re: Turkish ministers' sons arrested
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2013, 19:22:40 PM »
But who else could have pulled this off - certainly none of the opposition parties ??

My "what is this" comment was more a statement of - "is this the beginning" - if that makes sense?

Gulen - has many police / teachers / journalists and other professionals as the backbone of their movement.
I thought they were given credit for helping the AKP into power but in recent times have drifted away from their ever tightening policies - we will see - watch this space......

In the meantime have a read of this:
http://m.ceip.org/publications/?fa=53863
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Re: Turkish ministers' sons arrested
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2013, 19:38:54 PM »
I imagine it's the start of a very interesting few weeks.

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Re: Turkish ministers' sons arrested
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2013, 19:48:27 PM »
Turkish stock market dropped over 5% later on this afternoon - lira dropped to almost 3.40 to £1 on market fears after the arrests.

Let's hope there is no "tit for tat" but I think that is more with my heart than my head - possibly tin helmets on time for some of the main players on this stage ???

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Re: Turkish ministers' sons arrested
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2013, 20:49:47 PM »
From the things iv'e been reading this could last longer than a few weeks, get very
nasty and someone could get knocked off their perch.
Unconfirmed reports tonight of a lot of AKP resignations locally.
Two members of AKP Government have also resigned this week.
Tin hat time indeed.

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Re: Turkish ministers' sons arrested
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2013, 20:58:27 PM »
Supposedly mentioned on Twitter - 70 members of AKP Youth Party resigned en masse in Fethiye !

Here is a link but I don't have google translate on this handheld but it is clearly saying earthquake (read that as: sh*t has hit the fan) - 70 of our youth resign

http://www.ilk-kursun.com/haber/164076
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Re: Turkish ministers' sons arrested
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2013, 08:04:28 AM »
Just reading in todays Hurriet News.
5 Istanbul Police Commissioners were sacked this morning, including some connected to
yesterdays arrest's of Ministers sons. No reason given yet. !!!

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Re: Turkish ministers' sons arrested
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2013, 10:58:46 AM »
The Gulen Movement, also known as Hizmet, have always been in opposition to RTE. They own the newspaper Today's Zamam.

Nonsense.  The AK party and the Gulenist movement were closely aligned for many years - the AK party's victory in 2002 was, some say, assisted greatly by their links to Mr Gulen and his network.   The political bias spouted by the Zaman group has swung 180 degrees since they fell out.  Prior to that it was far kinder to RTE and his party.

The recent deterioration has been interesting, and set to become even more interesting.  Just wondering when they'll target the immediate members of RTE's family, specifically his son in law. 

JF




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