Turkey Spied on U.S. Residents in America Using D.C.-Based Law Firm

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From Obama’s “most trusted and favorite” foreign leader. One target fears consequences for relatives. Well done, Hussein.

Turkey Gathered Information in the U.S. Against Its Critics

U.S. law firm compiled reports that Turkish Embassy forwarded to prosecutors; one target fears consequences for relatives

By Wall Street Journal, 

WASHINGTON—Turkey’s government used a Washington law firm to gather information about its critics, including residents of the U.S., who it believed were allied with a movement that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regards as a central enemy, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The information, gathered at the behest of the Turkish Embassy in Washington, was transmitted to public prosecutors in Turkey, according to two Turkish government memorandums marked “secret.” Activists said they fear the data is being used in investigations of Mr. Erdogan’s perceived adversaries.

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The documents underscore Ankara’s intense antipathy toward individuals and groups it sees associated with Fethullah Gulen, a cleric who leads a world-wide, moderate Islamic movement from exile in rural Pennsylvania.

Mr. Erdogan, who met with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday, said he was presenting additional documentation to support Turkey’s demand that Mr. Gulen be extradited to Turkey, accusing the cleric of being behind a 2016 coup attempt against the president. U.S. officials have said Ankara hasn’t provided sufficient proof of Mr. Gulen’s involvement, and Mr. Gulen denies having played any role in the matter.

Since the coup attempt, more than 600,000 investigations have been opened by Turkey into people considered members of movements such as Mr. Gulen’s, the State Department said earlier this year in its annual report on human rights. More than 80,000 people have been imprisoned in conditions where problems included “suspicious deaths of persons in custody; forced disappearances; torture” and other rights concerns, the State Department said.

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cylde
cylde
4 years ago

Were they registered as foreign agents???If not, why aren’t they being prosecuted like Roger Stone??

Nigel
Nigel
4 years ago
Reply to  cylde

Because Obozo The Muzzy Usurper supported it.

Nigel
Nigel
4 years ago
Reply to  cylde

Because Obozo The Muzzy Usurper supported it.

jkarna
jkarna
4 years ago

If only the Muslim Obozo realized that in the Devil’s cult he is classified as a abeed and had he lived during the sociopath’s time, he would have been castrated along with Big M i ke.

ed
ed
4 years ago

My hometown Boston Celtics have this season signed Turkish national Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of Hussein Obama’s boy-toy, Erdogan. He made national news recently when upon leaving a local mosque (it pains me to say that I don’t even know how many of the devil-worshipping places there are in the Boston-area), Kanter and a teammate were surrounded by several of the goat-humpers who were attending the devil-worshiping service.

Although there was no physical contact, they surrounded Kanter and his teammate and took several pictures/videos with their phones. Erdogan hates him, and the agents of the devil now know where he is….

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  ed

The SA and Rohm didn’t much like Himmler or his SS, that didn’t make them the good guys.

ed
ed
4 years ago

My hometown Boston Celtics have this season signed Turkish national Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of Hussein Obama’s boy-toy, Erdogan. He made national news recently when upon leaving a local mosque (it pains me to say that I don’t even know how many of the devil-worshipping places there are in the Boston-area), Kanter and a teammate were surrounded by several of the goat-humpers who were attending the devil-worshiping service.

Although there was no physical contact, they surrounded Kanter and his teammate and took several pictures/videos with their phones. Erdogan hates him, and the agents of the devil now know where he is….

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

enemy inside

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
4 years ago

And despite all this, President Trump following his meeting with the vile Islamic scumbag, Recep Erdogan, a few days ago, described Erdogan as a “great leader”. Now, most of us know that for political, strategic and other reasons national leaders sometimes say mindlessly stupid things about foreign leaders, but when will a Western leader finally disparage a Muslim leader like Erdogan in a manner that is called for and appropriate? Erdogan is dung, a dictator and liar who denies the holocaust, denies the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocide committed by Turkey, imprisons journalists and military officers who don’t support his policies, and aspires to a new Ottoman Empire that was marked by its depraved cruelty and like any serious Muslim is afflicted with Judeophobia, Christianophobia and every other religious phobia known to man. Recep Erdogan is the essence of vile low-life.

Mike Kevins
Mike Kevins
4 years ago

That’s how they got around the law preventing them from surveilling American citizens. They also used the U.K>, Australia and Italy intelligence agencies to spy on Americans.

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