Coup Underway in Turkey

[David Guyatt]

Is this a different Graham Fuller than the writer? Here's a blog from him about Turkey and the "coup," and it doesn't sound supportive of the "coup" at all.

http://grahamefuller.com/turkeys-lose-lo...situation/

Ah, I see. He doesn't believe that Gulen is behind the "coup" in this blog:

http://grahamefuller.com/islamists-at-war-in-turkey/

and therefore he must be discredited.

Here is a quote from that last blog written by Fuller:

(Full disclosure: It is on public record that I wrote a letter as a private citizen in connection with Gülen's US green card application in 2006 stating that I did not believe that Gülen constituted a security threat to the US. This came shortly after I had finished a book (The Future of Political Islam) that involved extensive travel and interviews with Islamists around the world. In that context I found Hizmet to be remarkably moderate, tolerant, non-violent, open to dialog, a strong proponent of education as the means to empower Muslims in a globalizing future, and a social rather than political movement. But in the years of Bush's Global War on Terrorism many neoconservatives in Washington were agitating to deport Gülenamong many hundreds of other Muslim clericsas a security risk to the US. I found the charge baseless. Indeed, I still believe that HIzmet as a movement represents one of the most encouraging faces of contemporary Islam in the world. I wanted the FBI to at least be aware of my considered personal opinion as they considered his case. Since then enemies of Gülen and many conspiratorial-minded Turks decided to connect the dots: the fact that I was a CIA official (I had retired from CIA 18 years before), and that I had spoken out in defense of Gülen, constituted clear "proof" that that Gülen is a CIA agent.)

So the attack on him by this particular writer (Mr. Ertem) must be viewed in that context.

Edit: After reading some of his blogs, I wouldn't characterize him as a "neo-con" (in the US sense of the word) but more of a "cynic."

That's the Graham E Fuller who was CIA station chief in Kabul and a former deputy chair of the National Security Council, who came to public prominence by being the father of the wife of Uncle Ruslan, the outspoken uncle of the Tsarnaev brothers. Fuller is, or was, involved in the global jihad network, according to William Engdahl.

But what to make of what he says about Gulen and his relationship with him? Is it true because he offered it, or is it simply a ploy that makes it more attractive because he offered it before it became more widely known anyway?

What he doesn't say about Gulen, however, but what has been said by Voltaire is that he was Gulen's handler --- which may put a different complexion on the matter. Nor was Fuller the only former CIA sponsor of Gulen's green card, because former CIA officer, George Fidas also sponsored him along with the former US Ambassador to Turkey, Morton Abramowitz (HERE) who we soon learn was a former Deputy Director of the CIA (HERE). One CIA guy sponsoring Gulen may be coincidence, but all three? According to the foregoing link, Morton Abramowitz (rendered as Abromovic) was also apparently "deeply involved with the Afghan mujahadin and Kosovo rebels". And Abramowitz has been connected to the Afghan heroin trade, according to Sibel Edmonds.

Back in 2010, way before Uncle Ruslan and Fuller's notoriety, retired Turkish intelligence chief, Osman Nuri Gundes, published his memoir in which he stated that Gulen "worldwide islamic network" had been providing cover to the CIA since the 1990's and that at one point, up to 130 CIA agents had been sheltered in his schools (HERE).

Engdahl further states:

First it should be noted that Russia moved swiftly to ban the Gülen schools when the CIA began the Chechyn terror in the 1990's. In the 1980's when the Iran-Contra scandal broke in Washington (a scheme authored by Fuller at CIA), he "retired" to work at the CIA and Pentagon-financed RAND think-tank. There, under RAND cover, Fuller was instrumental in developing the CIA strategy for building the Gülen Movement as a geopolitical force to penetrate former Soviet Central Asia. Among his RAND papers, Fuller wrote studies on Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey, in Sudan, in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Algeria. His books praise Gülen lavishly.

In other words, Fuller never really retired from the CIA.

It's a small world. It's a CIA world.