‘FETO had made inroads in Pakistan’

Turkish envoy appreciates support against the July 15 coup instigators

ISLAMABAD:

The Fethullah Terrorist Organisation (FETO - Gülen movement), who had mounted a coup in Turkey, had made inroads in various sectors of the Turkish government and military and even in Pakistan.

This was claimed by the Turkish Ambassador Ihsan Mustafa Yurdakul during a selective ceremony to celebrate the Democracy and National Day of Turkey and to mark the fourth anniversary of the failed July 15, 2016, coup.

Terming it as one of the most treacherous attempts made on the people of Turkey, Yurdakul said that the brave Turkish people valiantly thwarted that attempt. “We have never before witnessed such savagery and treachery in our history as the one exhibited by the perpetrators of this coup attempt,” he said.

Claiming that the coup was planned by the FETO leadership and carried out by members of the organization, tanks rolled onto the streets, while helicopters and jets dropped bombs from the air

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on the Parliament building, the Presidential complex, the building of the national intelligence organization (MIT), the Turkish National Police, headquarters of the police special operations department.

“That night, 251 citizens were killed and more than 2,000 were injured,” he said.

The envoy claimed that the organisation had also made inroads in Pakistan by establishing schools.

“By brainwashing young minds at schools founded under the disguise of so-called training activities, they indoctrinated a large group of radical followers,” he said.

Yurdakul appreciated the Pakistani government and people, particularly the district administration of the federal capital which had moved to close down these schools in a single day and outrightly rejected the ideology of the terrorist organisation by banning these schools on the request of the Turkish government.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 17^th, 2020.