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Ifølge tyrkiske medierapporter, så var der en hemmelig NATO struktur involveret i kupforsøget som fandt sted i Tyrkiet den 15. juli, skriver den tyske avis Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten.

Mediekilden, refererende til rapporter i den tyrkiske medie, skriver at denne struktur primært har været brugt af briterne og amerikanerne til at udøve inflydelse over politiske begivenheder i Tyrkiet.

Avisen bemærkede også at Fethullah Gulen, en amerikansk baseret Muslimsk præst, som var anklaget af den tyrkiske regering for at plotte kuppet, kunne også være en del af denne struktur.

"Hvis man virkelig ønsker igen at skabe et tillidsforhold med vestlige institutioner, så skal Gladio [den illegale NATO struktur] i Tyrkiet blive udryddet sådan som det allerede er sket i adskillige Vestlige lande" skrev den tyrkiske journalist Ozcan Tikit for avisen Habertürk.


Kommentar: Virkelig? I hvilke lande er Gladio blevet udryddet? Hvorend vi kigger i Vesten, så bøjer alle hoveder sig mod Washington og London. Er det tilfældigt?



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According to DWN, Erdogan and the Turkish government are determined to "completely smash this clandestine structure."

"Erdogan is determined to smash Gladio in any case. Because the head of state has — albeit belatedly — realized that NATO seeks to harm Turkey's territorial integrity," the newspaper noted.

At the same time, former head of Turkish intelligence services Bülent Orakoglu argued that NATO's secret structures are active not only in Turkey, but also in the whole Europe.

"There is a force that wants the EU to dissolve. This force is a new form of Gladio, which carries out its operations among the population. I am confident that there is a Gladio structure in Europe which is working towards the dissolution of the EU," Orakoglu said.

During the Cold War, the United States created secret armies in Europe tasked to organize resistance in case of Soviet invasion. However, these secret armies that belonged to the so called Gladio network also reportedly organized terrorist attacks in the form of so called "false flag operations" to shape the political landscape in accordance with the interests of the United States.

On July 15, an attempted coup took place in Turkey and was suppressed the following day. Over 240 people were killed during the coup attempt and an estimated 2,000 were wounded.

Since the failed coup, Turkey has jailed more than 10,000 people and suspended more than 50,000 judges, civil servants, and educators under a state of emergency in which expressing ideas similar to those of Gulen is considered a crime.