{"id":308198,"date":"2017-04-05T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=308198"},"modified":"2017-04-05T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:40:13","slug":"erdogan-was-behind-failed-coup-based-on-cia-bnd-reports-german-intel-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/erdogan-was-behind-failed-coup-based-on-cia-bnd-reports-german-intel-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan was behind failed coup based on CIA, BND reports – German intel expert"},"content":{"rendered":"

German intelligence expert and author Erich Schmidt-Eenboom has said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, not the faith-based G\u00fclen movement, was behind a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 based on intelligence reports from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND).<\/p>\n

Speaking on a German public broadcaster ZDF program on Sunday, Schmidt-Eenboom said: \u201cAccording to CIA analyses, the so-called coup attempt was staged by Erdo\u011fan to prevent a real coup. The BND, CIA and other Western intelligence services do not see the slightest evidence showing G\u00fclen instigating the coup attempt.\u201d<\/p>\n

The military coup attempt on July 15 killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Erdo\u011fan pinned the blame on the G\u00fclen movement despite a strong denial from the movement and lack of any concrete evidence to this effect so far.<\/p>\n

When asked by the host of the program, Maybrit Illner, why Erdo\u011fan is accusing Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah G\u00fclen and his followers of masterminding the coup attempt, Schmidt-Eenboom said: \u201cThis is the easiest way to criminalize and eliminate them.\u201d<\/p>\n

G\u00fclen, who inspired the G\u00fclen movement, called for an international investigation into the coup attempt, but President Erdo\u011fan \u2014 calling the coup attempt \u201ca gift from God\u201d \u2014 and the government initiated a widespread purge aimed at cleansing sympathizers of the movement from within state institutions, dehumanizing its popular figures and putting them in custody.<\/p>\n

\u201cCIA and other intelligence services have the capability to infiltrate into the most secret communication systems and according to the information they gathered, July 15 was a staged coup,\u201d said Schmidt-Eenboom in further remarks.<\/p>\n

According to a statement from Interior Minister S\u00fcleyman Soylu on April 2, a total of 113,260 people have been detained as part of investigations into the G\u00fclen movement since the July 15 coup attempt while 47,155 were put into pre-trial detention.<\/p>\n


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