Fethullahist Terror Organization

CIA Director Mike Pompeo will pay a visit to Turkey on Feb. 9 in what will be his first visit abroad under the new U.S. administration, private broadcaster CNN Türk has reported.

The Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) will reportedly mark the top of Pompeo's agenda during his discussions with Turkish officials.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is siding with terrorism because it is opposing constitutional amendments that will vastly increase President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's powers, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said.

Some 149 military officers, including seven generals, are still on the run since the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016, Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık said on Feb. 5.

Answering a question from Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Ali Yiğit in parliament, Işık said a total of 149 fugitive soldiers were missing. 

The camp opposing the constitutional changes is composed of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) and the People's Democratic Party (HDP), Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has claimed, calling on people to vote "yes" after identifying who is saying "no" to the charter amendments. 

Turkey has decided to merge various authorities probing the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) - blamed for the July 2016 coup attempt - under a single roof in order to increase efficiency in hunting clandestine members of the network who are still functioning within the state.

It is not deliberate if Turkey makes some mistakes when going after the hundreds of thousands of people suspected of links to the Gülen Movement under the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, accused of orchestrating the July 2016 failed coup attempt, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Feb. 2. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have pledged further cooperation in the fight against terrorism during Merkel's visit to Ankara, while the German leader also stressed the impartiality of her country's courts regarding the extradition of Turkish coup attempt suspects. 

Turkey's top soldier and entire military brass have visited Kardak, twin islets in the Aegean whose disputed sovereignty brought Ankara and Athens to the brink of a war in 1996, in a bid to deliver multiple messages to Greece.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has been staging a quick tour of Africa covering three countries in four days. 

In his visits to Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar, he had two topics on the agenda: 

1- Asking the leaders of those countries to clean their government system of the influence of Fethullah Gülen, the Turkish Islamist preacher living in the United States, and

A ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy has said something that a few even months ago, would had been unimaginable: “NATO is a terror organization” and the alliance has become a “structure threatening Turkey“.