Netherlands gave asylum to eight Gülenists since last years’ coup bid

[Al-Mahdi]

Since Turkey’s failed coup attempt last year, The Netherlands has granted asylum to eight supporters of the network of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, Netherlands Association of Asylum Lawyers (VAJN) Chair Jan Eikelboom has said, BBC Turkish reported on Oct. 19.

The eight individuals were accused in Turkey over their alleged role in the July 15, 2016 coup attempt and their asylum requests were accepted on the grounds that there was a “risk of them suffering oppression in Turkey,” Eikelboom said.

The Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice has confirmed that some Turkish citizens’ asylum requests have been accepted by the government, but has so far not released a statement regarding the cause the asylum requests.

The Dutch government reportedly provided temporary residence permits to a number of Turkish citizens who made the necessary applications following last year’s coup attempt, widely believed to have been masterminded by followers of Gülen.

After an 18-month period, during which the applicants’ situations were analyzed, the Dutch Security and Justice Ministry has now announced that the “prolonged asylum process” has come to an end.

A ministry spokesperson indicated that some of the asylum applications have been approved and some have been rejected, BBC Turkish reported. The ministry added that every file has been examined “on a detailed and personal basis.”

The Dutch government says the number of Turkish citizens seeking asylum in the Netherlands has been gradually rising since last year, mirroring trends elsewhere in Europe. There were 56 asylum applications in the Netherlands from Turkey in 2015 but this figure was 235 in 2016. In the first eight months of this year, 309 Turkish citizens sought asylum in the Netherlands.


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Gülen’s mission


In 1953, the US clandestinely helped to overthrow the nationalist Mossadiq government in Iran. It had its hands in Sukarno’s downfall in Indonesia in 1965 and in 1973 it overthrew President Salvador Allende in Chile. Instead of those popular leaders, the US installed some of the cruellest dictators of the twentieth century: Shah Reza Pahlavi, Suharto and Pinochet.

In connection with this analogy it may be worth mentioning another set of allegations to the effect that some of the Gülen schools in Central Asia have served in the past as convenient cover for 130 CIA operatives in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, who spied for the US government while working as English teachers.

In his memoirs Osman Nuri Gundes, former head of the Istanbul branch of the Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT) even mentioned “Bridges of Friendship” as the code name of those operations. This particular case of alleged abuse of the Gülen schools by the CIA was later elaborated on by Cibel Edmonds in her memoirs Classified Woman: Sibel Edmonds Story. Edmonds is a former FBI translator who later became one of the most well-known American whistle blowers in the domain of national security.

Edmonds claimed that the key link between Fethullah Gülen and his movement with the CIA was Graham Fuller, a prominent intelligence analyst at the RAND Corporation, former CIA station chief in Kabul and Vice President of the National Intelligence Council.

Although he dismissed the allegations about the role of Gülen’s schools in hiding CIA operatives, Fuller admitted that he provided a reference to Gülen at the time the US immigration authorities planned to expel him in 2006. Fuller wrote a letter to the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security in defence of Gülen. Fuller wrote that he believed Gülen was not a threat to America. Due to this support, Gülen was allowed to stay in the United States. Another person who also wrote a similar letter in defence of Gülen was Morton Abramowitz, former CIA operative in Turkey who later served as a US ambassador in that country.

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