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Latest example of Turkey's deteriorating stability

Gulen, a reclusive figure who leads a popular movement called Hizmet, said anyone could have masterminded the coup attempt: nationalists, the opposition. He denied any involvement.

"It could be anything," Gulen told journalists through a translator.

"I have been away from Turkey for 16 years," he said.

Whoever was responsible, the uprising is the latest worrying example of deteriorating stability in a country once promoted to the wider Muslim world as a model of democratic governance and economic prosperity.

Some 14 years after Erdogan's political party swept to power in elections, Turkey teeters on the brink.

At the heart of Erdogan's rivalry with Gulen is a fundamental division in Turkish society between secularists -- some within the country's top military brass -- and Islamists, including the president's AKP party.

Thousands of military officers have been arrested, including the commander of Turkey's 2nd Army, Gen. Adem Huduti.

On Saturday, the Pentagon said U.S. officials were working with Turkey to resume air operations at Incirlik Air Base.

"In the meantime, U.S. Central Command is adjusting flight operations in the counter-ISIL campaign to minimize any effects on the campaign," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said.

Clothes and weapons beloging to soldiers involved in the coup attempt lie on the ground abandoned on Bosphorus Bridge.

Key air base closed

For now, American airstrike missions from the base have been halted. Turkish officials told the United States the airspace has been closed until they can make sure all Turkish air force elements are in the hands of government forces, a U.S. defense official told CNN on Saturday.

Still, a small number of U.S. planes on missions before the airspace closed were allowed to land at Incirlik, the official said.

Earlier, the U.S. consulate in Adana reported that power to the base had been cut and authorities prevented movement on and off the site.

Cook said U.S. facilities were operating on internal power and the power shutdown did not affect base operations. Defense department personnel in the area were "safe and secure," he said.

The base is home to the Turkish Air Force and the U.S. Air Force's 39th Air Base Wing, which includes about 1,500 American personnel, according to the base website.

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Fethullah Guel Là ai trong cuộc đảo chính tại Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ ?
July 16, 2016 10:37 

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 Tiếp tục cập nhật tin tức liên quan đến cuộc đảo chánh tại Thổ nhĩ Kỳ hiện nay, có một nhân vật mà TT Recep Tayyyip Erdogan đang buộc tội là Fethullah Gulen hiện người này đang sống lưu vong tại Hoa Kỳ.

Tại phi trường Ataturk, Istanbul vào rạng sáng thứ Bảy, TT Erdogan buộc tội giáo sĩ Gulen tự ra sống lưu vong tại Hoa Kỳ đã ‘đạo diễn’ màn đảo chính này. Gulen người cầm đầu phong trào có tên là phong trào Gulen hay Hizmet, nhưng ông ta từ chối lời buộc tội này.

Fethullah Gulen

Fethullah Gulen là ai?

Gulen năm nay đã 75 tuổi. Tuy sống ẩn dật nhưng ông là một giáo sĩ có uy thế. Hiện nay ông tự lưu vong tại Pennsylvania Hoa Kỳ (từ năm 1999 đến nay). Gulen được người dân Thổ xem như là nhân vật quyền thế thứ hai của nước này.

Ông Gulen từng ra hơn 40 cuốn sách, đa số khuyên mọi nguời theo ông hãy xây nhiều trường học thay cho giáo đường. Ông cầm đầu một phong trào lớn mạnh tại Thổ có tên là Hizmet có nghĩa chính là xây dựng chế độ dân chủ và thế tục tại Thổ.

Phong trào Hizmet là gì?

Chữ Hizmet có nghĩa là “sự phục vụ”. Dù nó không phải là một hệ thống hay tổ chức chính thức nào nhưng phong trào này ảnh hưởng mạnh trong dân. Theo dự đoán có hơn 10% dân chúng ủng hộ phong trào xã hội và tôn giáo này.

Tuy phong trào thu hút sự tán thưởng và ủng hộ của thế giới do nội dung vận động và đối thoại nhiều tôn giáo của nó trong đó có sự vận động thành lập mạng lưới toàn cầu để xây dựng những doanh nhiệp, xác lập các đầu não lãnh đạo cùng trường ốc, chuyện này tạo cho chính phủ Thổ sự lo ngại phong trào có âm mưu thầm kín là ‘lật đổ’ bên trong.

Tại sao Gulen bị buộc tội đạo diễn cuộc đảo chính hiện nay?

Thổ có một lịch sử lâu dài do các cuộc ‘đấu đá’ giữa các nhân vật Hồi Giáo với nhau. Đảng Công Lý và Phát Triển do TT Erdogan cầm đầu (AKP) kình chống với những người theo phong trào thế tục (secularists) trong đó có nhiều quân nhân theo lý tưởng của Mustafa Kemal Ataturk nhà lãnh đạo thành lập ra Nước Cộng Hoà Thổ Nhỉ Kỳ. Vấn đề này đưa nước Hôi Giáo Thổ vào vòng tranh chấp với quân đội nơi có nhiều nguời tôn thờ chủ thuyết Kemalism là một chủ thuyết chính trị Hồi Giáo thế tục mới thân với Tây phương hơn

Gulen đeo đuổi lý tưởng cho phong trào, chú trọng trung dung khối Hồi Sunni, nằm lưng chừng giữa thế tục và Hồi Giáo. Gulen đồng minh với TT Erdogan cho tới năm 2013 thì hết do những cáo buộc về tham nhũng chống lại Erdogan vào thời ông Ergogan còn giữ chức thủ tướng.

Sự đối đầu hai phía dâng cao trong các cuộc thanh trừng những thành phần theo Gulen trong các bộ phận tư pháp, cảnh sát, truyền thông và ngay cả quân đội.

Gulen trả lời buộc tội ra sao?

Gulen đã mạnh mẽ trả lời buộc tội này, ông Gulen nói rằng: “một chính quyền thành lập phải qua một tiến trình bầu cử tự do và công bằng không dùng cưỡng ép dân. Là một người từng chịu đựng sự trấn áp của quân đội đảo chánh trong 5 thập niên qua nay lại bị bêu xấu qua lời buộc tội có liên hệ đến cuộc đảo chánh quân sự này? tôi hoàn toàn bác bỏ lời buộc tội này.”

Alliance for Shared Values, nhóm ủng hộ Gulen cũng bác bỏ lời buộc tội giùm cho Gulen, cho những phê phán của những người ủng hộ TT Erdogan là ” vô trách nhiệm cao độ”. Nhóm ủng hộ Gulen xác minh rằng phong trào Gulen chủ trương dân chủ và bác bỏ và lên án mọi hành vi quân sự can thiệp vào chính trị trong nước.

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What we know

As night falls almost a full day after a group within the military tried to stage a coup, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reasserted control, detained thousands of people in the military and courts, and demanded that Barack Obama arrest or deport a political opponent.

• On Friday night a faction of the Turkish military tried and failed to stage a coup to overthrow Erdoğan, and sent tanks, helicopters and soldiers clashed with police and protesters in the streets of Istanbul and Ankara.
• An estimated 265 people were killed in the violence, though authorities have given distinct tallies. Prime minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday that 161 “martyrs” were killed, including civilians and police, and that at least 1,440 people were wounded. The general acting as chief of staff, Umit Dundar, said earlier in the day that 104 “coup plotters” were killed in the fighting.
• Loyalists arrested 2,839 army members and ordered detained 2,745 judges and prosecutors, as Erdoğan’s government began to purge the government and military ranks of suspected dissidents.
• Erdoğan demanded that Barack Obama arrest or deport an exiled cleric, Fethullah Gülen, from his home in Pennsylvania. Secretary of state John Kerry said the US would consider extradition but required evidence of the imam’s wrongdoing.
• Gülen rejected the conspiracy accusations in a rare interview with the Guardian and other reporters, and suggested that Erdoğan could have staged the coup. He also condemned the coup attempt, saying, “Now that Turkey is on the path to democracy, it cannot turn back.”
• Yildirim said that Turkey would consider reinstating the death penalty to punish coup-plotters and the “black stain” they had left on the nation’s democracy. Erdoğan, in Istanbul after an extraordinary iPhone address on Friday, vowed to “clean up” the military and government of enemies.
• Anti-coup demonstrations returned to the streets of Istanbul and Ankara, where police restored order and soldiers surrendered in tense scenes around the cities. Injured people still waited for medical care at Ankara’s biggest hospital, and people recounted scenes of horror and death from clashes with tanks and soldiers the night before.
• Parliament resumed sessions amid rubble from at least one explosion Friday, and all the major parties, including those that have vehemently opposed Erdoğan’s AKP, denounced the attempted coup.
• Two Turkish majors, a captain and five privates requested asylum in Greece after landing in a military helicopter. Greece’s defense ministry acknowledged a landing near Alexandroupolis, and said the passengers were arrested for illegal entry.
• The Pentagon lost Turkish airspace access and was forced to stop flying from a southern base, which Ankara’s foreign minister explained by saying that suspected coup plotters were arrested at the base. He promised that counter-terror cooperation would resume as normal after anti-coup operations ended.
• Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Donald Tusk and other world leaders condemned the coup in emphatic terms. “All parties in Turkey should support the democratically-elected government of Turkey, show restraint, and avoid any violence or bloodshed,” the US president said in a statement.

Pentagon loses Turkish airspace access crucial in airstrikes against Isis

Incirlik airbase closed to military aircraft after failed coup attempt as
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3h ago04:23

Kareem Shaheen

At Numune hospital, the largest in Ankara, hundreds of wounded people have been brought for treatment, my colleague Kareem Shaheen reports.

Cagri, a 29-year-old, was wounded by shrapnel when a military helicopter fired at loyalist security forces in his neighborhood of Kazan. “We just panicked,” he said.

A friend of his who was 2 miles away died in the fire from helicopter machine guns, he said. A taxi driver nearby grabbed him and took him to the hospital, where he had to lie down outside waiting to be treated because of the huge crowds of victims seeking help. Another friend lost his hand, Cagri said, his own shrapnel wounds in his chest and leg, bandaged. He added that has lost all feeling in his injured thigh.

 Cagri at the hospital in Ankara. Photograph: Kareem Shaheen

Osman Konmaz, an EMT, said he treated between 350 to 400 people in the attack’s aftermath. He described the most heartbreaking cases he saw: one man who lost his leg after it was run over by a tank, and another when he saw the body of a man who was crushed by a tank controlled by the coup plotters.

“There was no humanity in any of this,” he said. Most of the injuries he saw were wounds from shrapnel or bullets. He said the incident took a grave psychological toll, and was even worse than the attack in Ankara last October by Isis that targeted a peace rally.

“This was the worst massacre I’ve ever witnessed,” he said, before alluding to a bombing months earlier. “At least October 10 was terror by a terrorist group, but this was done by our own military.”

Meanwhile people continued to gather at Kizilay Square, where prime minister Binali Yildirim is set to speak to the crowds.

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People have started amassing in the streets and squares of Ankara, my colleague Kareem Shaheen reports from Kizilay Square, which is awash in waves of red Turkish flags.

There’s a carnival like atmosphere and a couple thousand protesters in Ankara’s Kizilay square, celebrating the coup’s defeat. Under towering portraits of President Erdogan that declare “we own democracy.”

Protesters are chanting “the martyrs will not die, the country won’t be divided,” “God is great,” and praising Erdogan amid music and jubilant flag waving. One chant said: “There is no left or right wing, only Ankara, the last castle.”

Ahmet, a 23-year-old protester, said he came to the demonstrations to stand alongside the elected president, saying he had also joined civilians who marched upon the presidential palace last night against the military.

 Ankara. Photograph: Kareem Shaheen

“We are here together against it, and if they try a second time, we will stay here,” he said

A young couple who requested anonymity said they saw their presence as a defence of the homeland.

“They tried to divide our country,” said the man. “This is about our homeland and we will die for it, and they shot at us with their helicopters and their jets flew over our heads.”

The couple urged greater cooperation between Turkey’s political factions, saying the whole country was “one heart” in the immediate aftermath of the coup attempt.

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Gülen: Erdoğan could have staged coup

 

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In a rare interview with a small group of journalists at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, the reclusive Fethullah Gülen has told my colleague Amana Fontanella-Khan that he rejects all accusations that he was behind Friday’s coup attempt.

“I don’t believe that the world believes the accusations made by President Erdoğan,” Gülen said. “There is a possibility that it could be a staged coup and it could be meant for further accusations [against the Gulenists],” he said, a small prayer room, lined with woven rugs, decorated with Islamic calligraphy and leather bound religious books.

Gülen said he rejects all military interventions, and said he has personally suffered every time a coup has happened in Turkey in recent years. “Now that Turkey is on the path to democracy, it cannot turn back,” he said.

The last time the reclusive leader of the Gülen movement spoke live to international press was in 2014. Gülen rarely leaves the Golden Generation Worship and Retreat Center complex, where his movement offers religious instruction. The exiled imam is in fragile health. Before the interview he was attended to by a stethoscope-carrying physician who measured his blood pressure.

The sprawling compound is guarded by around the clock security. Following the news of the coup, Alp Aslandogan, the executive director of Alliance for Shared Values, and the media advisor to Gülen, said that security is on “high alert” following threats of violence on social media.

While Erdoğan is attempting to extradite Gülen for charges related to the coup Aslandogan said: “The US government position has always been that if there is any evidence of Mr Gulen breaking the laws, they will look into it.

“So far, the Turkish government hasn’t produced anything. Thank God, this is a country of laws, and we depend on that.”

Elaborating on the idea that Erdoğan may have staged a coup, Aslandogan noted Friday’s events did not match the pattern previous coups have followed: “The coup appears to be poorly planned, very poorly executed and everything seems to be paying into Erdogan’s hands.”

“There are many big question marks of how [this attempted coup] was executed,” he added.

 Fethullah Gulen at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. Photograph: HANDOUT/Reuters