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Dat is de titel van een in Turkije gepubliceerd boek:

”The Turkish Gun of The Gladio - Abdullah Catli”

Abdullah Catli wordt genoemd in onderstaand artikel op Consotiumnews over oa de Grijze Wolven, Gladio, het Vatikaan en de moord op “God’s bankier” Roberto Calvi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi (1997).

Catli wordt ook besproken in het periodiek “Justitiele verkenningen” Jaargang 26 2000, over Turkije. Daarin wordt ook een link gelegd tussen maffia, geheime diensten, de Grijze Wolven en Gladio.
Uitgegeven door het Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum (WODC) van Justitie http://www.wodc.nl.
http://www.wodc.nl/images/jv0008_Volledige_tekst_tcm44-56927.pdf

The Consortium
On the Trail of Turkey’s Terrorist Grey Wolves
By Martin A. Lee
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story33.html

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But at the center of the mushrooming Turkish scandal is whether Turkey, a strategically placed NATO country, allowed mafiosi and right-wing extremists to operate death squads and to smuggle drugs with impunity. A Turkish parliamentary commission is investigating these new charges.

The rupture of state secrets in Turkey also could release clues to other major Cold War mysteries. Besides the attempted papal assassination, the Turkish disclosures could shed light on the collapse of the Vatican bank in 1982 and the operation of a clandestine pipeline that pumped sophisticated military hardware into the Middle East—apparently from NATO stockpiles in Europe—in exchange for heroin sold by the Mafia in the United States.

The official Turkish inquiry was triggered by what could have been the opening scene of a spy novel: a dramatic car crash on a remote highway near the village of Susurluk, 100 miles southwest of Istanbul. On Nov. 3, 1996, three people were crushed to death when their speeding black Mercedes hit a tractor and overturned. The crash killed Husseyin Kocadag, a top police official who commanded Turkish counter-insurgency units.

But it was Kocadag’s company that stunned the nation. The two other dead were Abdullah Catli, a convicted fugitive who was wanted for drug trafficking and murder, and Catli’s girlfriend, Gonca Us, a Turkish beauty queen turned mafia hit-woman. A fourth occupant, who survived the crash, was Kurdish warlord Sedat Bucak, whose militia had been armed and financed by the Turkish government to fight Kurdish separatists.

At first, Turkish officials claimed that the police were transporting two captured criminals. But evidence seized at the crash site indicated that Abdullah Catli, the fugitive gangster, had been given special diplomatic credentials by Turkish authorities. Catli was carrying a government-approved weapons permit and six ID cards, each with a different name. Catli also possessed several handguns, silencers and a cache of narcotics, not the picture of a subdued criminal.

When it became obvious that Catli was a police collaborator, not a captive, the Turkish Interior Minister resigned. Several high-ranking law enforcement officers, including Istanbul’s police chief, were suspended. But the red-hot scandal soon threatened to jump that bureaucratic firebreak and endanger the careers of other senior government officials.

Grey Wolves Terror
The news of Catli’s secret police ties were all the more scandalous given his well-known role as a key leader of the Grey Wolves, a neo-fascist terrorist group that has stalked Turkey since the late 1960s. A young tough who wore black leather pants and looked like Turkey’s answer to Elvis Presley, Catli graduated from street gang violence to become a brutal enforcer for the Grey Wolves. He rose quickly within their ranks, emerging as second-in-command in 1978. That year, Turkish police linked him to the murder of seven trade-union activists and Catli went underground.

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Interessant.

Turkije heeft veel skeletten in de kast als het gaat om dit soort zaken. Zo ook de band tussen de Turkse geheime dienst en de Mossad. Graag zou ik eens tijd hebben om er dieper in te duiken.

Volgens Sibel Edmonds geeft Turkije ook te maken met handel in nucleaire geheimen

The Sunday Times
January 6, 2008
For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets
Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece

A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.

Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office.

She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey.

Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions.

Among the hours of covert tape recordings, she says she heard evidence that one well-known senior official in the US State Department was being paid by Turkish agents in Washington who were selling the information on to black market buyers, including Pakistan.

The name of the official – who has held a series of top government posts – is known to The Sunday Times. He strongly denies the claims.

However, Edmonds said: “He was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political objectives.”

She claims that the FBI was also gathering evidence against senior Pentagon officials – including household names – who were aiding foreign agents.

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FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft
The Sunday Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3216737.ece

The FBI has been accused of covering up a file detailing government dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets

THE FBI has been accused of covering up a key case file detailing evidence against corrupt government officials and their dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets.

The assertion follows allegations made in The Sunday Times two weeks ago by Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistleblower, who worked on the agency’s investigation of the network.

Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office.

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One of the documents relating to the case was marked 203A-WF-210023. Last week, however, the FBI responded to a freedom of information request for a file of exactly the same number by claiming that it did not exist. But The Sunday Times has obtained a document signed by an FBI official showing the existence of the file.

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Hieruit blijkt de dubbel-rol van geheime diensten: er zijn vaak twee kampen. Simpel gezegd: een groep handlangers van de vijand, en de ‘good guys’ die door hebben dat er iets aan de hand is en proberen er achter te komen wat, en proberen er iets tegen te doen.

Indira Singh, ‘wall street whistleblower’ heeft het daar ook over. Zij heeft geprobeerd haar bevindingen via de geeigende weg aan de autorititen door te geven, oa via de FBI. In eerste instantie kreeg ze medewerking, maar als het ergens hogerop komt wordt het geblokkerd. Dat is de “muur” binnen de FBI:

“In fact, and this has to be made very clear, there are some extraordinarily real patriotic Americans and good people in the FBI, as has been said by, I believe, Agent Colleen Rowley, one of the FBI whistleblowers’ bosses, that there’s a wall in the FBI, and this has been validated to me by various attorneys in Houston, who are very close to the power bases, and are pretty ticked-off at what’s happening in this country and are speaking out, as are many CIA agents who are very concerned that it has gone too far, as are many NSA agents who are concerned that it’s gone too far, and FBI agents. So we have a lot of people who are speaking out, they’ve kept quiet too long; they’re afraid, they’re afraid of what’s happening to this country. And when I say the Third Reich, what is happening to this country, they say, and I will identify ‘they’ if pressed, they say, will make the Third Reich look like a tea party.”
-- Indira Singh, before the 9-11 Citizens’ Commission
http://www.911citizenscommission.us/

Wel grappig dat ondanks alle moderne zaken zoals vliegtuigen en schepen Turkije nog steeds een handelsroute is tussen het oosten en het westen.

Inderdaad. Het is nog steeds de poort naar de Orient.

Daarom vind ik Istanbul ook zo’n fascinerende stad: je proeft die sfeer tussen twee werelden daar zo goed.

Ja heerlijk die uranium lucht

Als je op dat soort plekken komt begin je te snappen dat Nederland kapot is gemaakt met regeltjes.
Het ziet er allemaal vrij rechtlijnig en onderhouden uit maar wel rete saai.

Er is niks zo mooi als al die oude gebouwen en toestanden, ik ben werkelijk een liefhebber van alles in het midden oosten en richting Azie.