Turkey: Gladio II central 'Suicide bomber of Syrian origin'

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Why the news Blackout?
Turkey being used as a test bed for Gladio 2.0 false flag attacks by Mossad & NATO Intelligence
Ten tourists dead this morning
News Blackout within Turkey.....!
http://atimes.com/2016/01/blast-at-istanbuls-tourist-spot-leaves-many- dead-or-injured/

Almost 800 Journalists Fired, 150 Arrested in Turkey in 2015
Police use tear-inducing agent against demonstrators during a protest over the arrest of journalists in Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 27, 2015.
The Turkish opposition party CHP said journalists and media outlets face more than 500 legal cases, while 32 members of the press remain in prison.
More than 770 journalists were fired and more than 150 arrested in Turkey in 2015 for reasons related to their work, the country’s main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) said Monday.
According to CHP deputy chair Sezgin Tanrikulu, 774 journalists were fired and 484 legal actions were taken up by judicial authorities against journalists, media organizations and news websites.
He said 238 journalists faced court cases in 2015 while 156 journalists were detained at some point or another that same year. At least 32 journalists remain imprisoned. Meanwhile, seven Turkish media companies came under investigation in 2015.
The news comes one day after Turkey marked the 55th anniversary of Law No. 212, which describes and protects the rights of journalists and is celebrated as Working Journalists' Day in the country.
Stressing there was no reason for celebration, hundreds of journalists and free speech activists took to the streets Sunday to protest the government's crackdown on journalists and media.
But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who many see as the main force behind the media crackdown, congratulated reporters and press members by stressing in a message Sunday that the freedom of media was important for the democracy of a country.
“Media should be free; to the extent those working in the press, journalists and reporters are free, the democracy of the country will be stronger to the same extent,” Erdogan said in his message.
However, commenting on Erdogan’s remarks, Tanrıkulu said the current situation in Turkey resembled a “bankrupt” democracy. Turkey, according to Reporters Without Borders, ranked a troubling 149 out of 180 on the 2015 World Press Freedom Index.
According to Tanrukulu, the government is using anti-terrorism laws and others that criminalize to impede freedom of the press.
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Turkey
http://www.thepeopleshistory.net/2014/04/operation-gladio-cia-nato-and -terrorism.html

Another Gladio hotspot was Turkey. During the Cold War, Turkey shared a third of the total borders with the Soviet bloc and maintained the largest standing army in Europe, and the second in NATO after the United States. In 1952, a stay-behind army was organized under the codename 'Counter-Guerrilla'.

“On November 3 (1996), a truck crashed into a Mercedes Benz in Susurluk, ninety miles south of Istanbul, and killed three Turkish passengers: a fugitive heroin smuggler and hitman, a former high-ranking police officer, and a former "Miss Cinema." The lone survivor was a right-wing member of parliament. In the car's trunk, police found a forged passport, police identification papers, ammunition, silencers, and machine guns.

Abdullah Catli, the fugitive heroin smuggler, had escaped from a Swiss prison. The dead beauty queen, Gonca Uz, was his girlfriend.

The police officer was Huseyin Kocadag, head of a Turkish police academy and a former Istanbul deputy police chief who reportedly organized hit squads in the southeast that kill Kurdish guerrillas and their supporters.

The survivor, Sedat Bucak, a member of parliament from the conservative True Path Party, is reportedly in charge of 2,000 Kurdish mercenaries paid by the government to fight Kurdish guerrillas.

The car crash has created a sensation in Turkey and has led parliament to hold hearings on the ties linking the True Path Party, the police, and thugs like Abdullah Catli. Newspapers in Turkey are making connections between what they are calling the "state gang" and a secret paramilitary force that for decades has attacked the left...

The United States funded these stay-behind groups for decades. Even though there was no Soviet occupation, some of the groups did take up arms-- against left-wing dissidents in their own countries. Some descendants of these groups are still at it, especially in Turkey.

Abdullah Catli was one of those.

"The accident unveiled the dark liaisons within the state," former prime minister Bulent Ecevit told parliament in December. Now leader of a small opposition social-democratic party, Ecevit knows a lot about those liaisons. He first told me about them -- and the American connection -- back in 1990, when I interviewed him in his Ankara office.” - The Progressive10


Bulent Ecevit, five time Turkish prime minister, who is cited in the above quote, declared that the Taksim Square massacre was a Gladio operation, where half a million citizens had rallied. It was organized by trade unions, and the shooting lasted for 20 minutes while a thousand policemen in attendance did not intervene. About 40 people were killed, and though none of the perpetrators were caught, 500 demonstrators were detained. The massacre occurred during a broader wave of political violence.11



The U.S. State Department in its 1995 Human Rights report noted that:


“Prominent credible human rights organizations, Kurdish leaders, and local Kurds asserted that the government acquiesces in, or even carries out, the murder of civilians... Human rights groups reported the widespread and credible belief that a Counter-Guerrilla group associated with the security forces had carried out at least some 'mystery killings'".12


American journalist Lucy Komisar, when asking U.S. officials about investigating the human rights reports, was told “That's classified.” The Turkish military would likewise block all investigations in their country.13


There is evidence of Gladio operatives extensively operating torture campaigns for political purposes. For example, Talhat Turhan, former Turkey General, survived torture at the hands of special forces. He was told “...I was now ‘in the hands of a Counter Guerrilla unit operating under the high command of the Army outside the constitution and the laws.’ They told me that they ‘considered me as their prisoner of war and that I was sentenced to death.”14


Much of the violence was directed at the Kurdish minority. In 1984 the Counter-Guerrillas were behind the brutal crackdown that would kill and torture thousands over the next 5 years. Among other operations, Counter-Guerrillas would dress up as PKK members (A Kurdish political party) and attacked villages, raping and executing people randomly.15



The political violence in Turkey, with Gladio operatives responsible to at least a moderate extent, paved the way for the series of military coups that have occurred in the country. A 1996 New York Times article notes that:


“evidence suggests that officially sanctioned criminality may have reached levels that few had imagined...


One of Turkey's most prominent pro-Kurdish politicians, Guven Ozata, said the car crash and its aftermath had convinced him that state-sponsored death squads were behind many of the estimated 3,500 unsolved killings that have been committed in the southeastern part of the country in the last decade. Most of the victims had been suspected of sympathizing with separatist Kurdish causes.


''These gangs have a direct link with mystery killings,'' Mr. Ozata said at a news conference. ''This is no longer a hypothesis or a guess. It is a reality acknowledged by Government officials.''


Several politicians and others who are calling for investigations into the Government's relationship with criminal gangs believe that the gangs used their official ties as cover for involvement in Turkey's lucrative heroin-smuggling trade. They suspect that senior officials were engaged in the trade or tolerated it as a way of repaying gangs that killed at their behest.” - New York Times16


The evidence of Gladio operations in Turkey reveal another important link: The collusion between paramilitary forces and drug traffickers. At the time (and to this day), Turkey served as a major hub in the smuggling of drugs into Western Europe, from the Southeast Asian 'Golden Triangle' and later the Middle East. It is likely that drugs served as a significant source of funding for these decentralized operations and was the catalyst for a bond between the state and the criminal underworld that ensured massive corruption in the country that exists to this day. After all, we know that the Gehlen Organization was involved in the black market in the area to raise extra funds for their intelligence operations. It seems that this practice spread throughout the web of 'stay-behind' armies financed and armed by the CIA and NATO.

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Ooops... A Saudi not a Syrian
Now there's a surprise!

Sultanahmet suicide bomber identified as Saudi ‘asylum seeker’
ISTANBUL
Sultanahmet suicide bomber identified as Saudi ‘asylum seeker’
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=517&nID=93800&New sCatID=509
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide bomber who killed 10 tourists by blowing himself up in Istanbul’s touristic Sultanahmet Square has been identified as a Saudi national who recently appealed to a district directorate of migration management to seek asylum in Turkey.

The bomber, identified as 28-year-old Nabil Fadli, applied for asylum to the Zeytinburnu Migration Management Directorate in the Istanbul district on Jan. 5, security sources said.

According to reports, the man arrived at the center alongside four other men and remained in his declared address for a few days.

Fadli’s identity was uncovered as crime scene investigators found one of the militant’s finger tips at the site of the explosion.

Police are continuing an extensive investigation to apprehend Fadli’s accomplices, as well as the men who accompanied him on Jan. 5.
January/13/2016