Posted on 09/01/2016 8:08:23 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pro-government daily newspaper Akşam published a front-page article claiming the alleged connivance of the CIA and the Ecumenical Patriarchate with the “gulenista” coup
For the first time a Turkish newspaper has explicitly accused Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I of being an accomplice in the failed coup last July 15, organized, according to Ankara by Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen - currently in exile in the USA - and his Hizmet movement, Catholic news agency Fides reports.
On Tuesday, August 30, Akşam newspaper published a front-page article to accredit the alleged connivance of the CIA and the Ecumenical Patriarchate with the “gulenista” coup, Fides goes on to say in its report. Akşam connects the attempted coup with the rapprochement between Putin’s Russia and Erdogan’s Turkey, after the clashes of the recent past, and cites as evidence of the alleged link between Bartholomew and Gülen an article - attributed to Arthur Hughes, now US ambassador in Yemen, which appeared in mid-August on the www.orientalreview.org website – on the alleged interest of the ecumenical Patriarchate to an overthrow of the power apparatus headed by Erdogan.
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Surprise....surprise!
Why of course! Isn't it obvious?
This isn’t going to make Russia’s Putin happy. Putin is very pro-Orthodox Church. Erdogan better be careful here, very careful.
Is there anyone this idiot Erdogan hasn’t blamed? I’m sure Obama was complicit in this mess.
I can neither confirm nor deny involvement.
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