“The organisation network is damaging to Turkey”, he said. “What we want to tell is that if people are unconsciously part of it, they should get out”, said E Sabri Ergen, counsel general of Turkey in Mumbai.
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Blaming the Gulen-led movement, Fethulla Terror Organisation (FETO) and “a section of the army” for the failed coup in Turkey last month, Ergen said, “FETO has a worldwide network including India”. The government must close everything and put it under a strong microscope. “The Fethullah terror organization has a huge network of study centres, institutions, human capital and businesses worth billions of dollars which it uses as fronts to penetrate government institutions in Turkey like the police, judiciary and armed forces”, Ergen said. “This is an illegal network with a sinister design in mind”, he said. Turkey has all along blamed Fetullah for the coup and blamed the United States for providing him a hiding ground.
But he said the authorities would not be motivated by revenge and would act within the rule of law as they track down those responsible for the July 15 attempted putsch. We believe the Indian authorities already had that information.
Declining to either identify or specify the number of such Mumbai-based organisations that have links with FETO, Ergen said, “Jordan closed down (Gülen supported or affiliated organisations) immediately. There are several such institutions in Mumbai and elsewhere in India”.
“We have given a lot of documents and provided evidence”.
“The coup attempt was foiled by people of Turkey, who stood before tanks, which is a victory for democracy and media”, he said. I can not name individuals or institutions for legal reasons.
The official complaint against the Gulenist organisations in India is significant as it comes a week after Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, visited Pakistan and spoke in support of Pakistan’s position on Kashmir.
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The Turkish government has accused Gulen of orchestrating July’s failed coup in the country and has made a formal request to the USA to extradite him.
