Tag: Gulen
Evidence and reliably informed speculation are the only two rational means that are, as of yet, available to reconstruct the source behind the 15 July 2016 Turkish coup-attempt. One can reasonably assume that some nation’s intelligence-operation was involved, and that this would have entailed either America’s CIA or Turkey’s equivalent, the MIT or National Intelligence Organization, or else both…
Metin Gurcan is a columnist for Al-Monitor's Turkey Pulse. He served in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Iraq as a Turkish military adviser between 2002-2008. Resigned from the military, he is now an Istanbul-based independent security analyst. Gurcan obtained his PhD in […]
George Eliason Why are known terrorists at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia? Doesn’t the Secret Service vet people that are in the same building as the President of the United States anymore? What the hell is going on? Invited […]
As Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan broadens his purge of perceived political opponents following the failed military coup, tensions with Washington and European allies are straining. Questions are even raised about a possible break in relations between Ankara and the West. Such a fundamental break seems unlikely, however, given the strategic importance of Turkey to the US-led NATO military alliance – especially at a time when NATO is vital to Washington’s policy of trying to isolate Russia…
