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Just few days ago, a chilling footage in one of the international television stations brought to the fore the ugly memories of the July 15, 2016, aborted coup in Turkey. It was during the one years commemoration of the coup, which saw to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowing to rip the heads off of terror groups and plotters who tried to put an end to his more than a decade-long dictatorial rule.

More than 250 innocent Turks paid with their lives to ensure that Erdogan rule was not truncated by the coup plotters on that fateful July 15, 2016, while the President hibernated and disappeared into an unknown destination.

Like many autocratic leaders, Erdogan was quick to blame members of opposition and sympathizers of Gulen Movement for the coup attempt. He particularly singled out the United States-based Turkish cleric, Fethullah Gulen as the mastermind of the coup, even when it is on record that the highly-respected cleric publicly condemned the coup when it was still on.

Though the July 15 failed coup was not the first in that country, the many conspiratorial theories and the Turkish government heightened brutality aftermath of the coup has continued to tilt my belief that the coup was just a well-crafted master script which was activated by Erdogan to silence critics and any finger of opposition in Turkey. Yes, many leaders in the past have used phantom coups to consolidate their grip on power by jailing perceived political enemies and sometimes send them to the hangs man noose.

During the dark days of military regime in Nigeria in the mid-1990s, many influential figures like General Olusegun Obasanjo, who later became President, General Shehu YarAdua, and a host of other critics of government were all sent to jail over a coup that was believed to be designed to topple the government of late General Sani Abacha. Hence, the recent revelation by Sweden-based Stockholm Centre for Freedom (SCF) in on the Turkeys coup has further cemented my belief that some power-drunk leaders can go to any length to perpetrate themselves in office.

According to the international Centre, last years failed coup attempt in Turkey is nothing but a false flag orchestrated by Turkeys autocratic President Recep Tayip Erdogan and his henchmen to create a pretext for a mass persecution of critics and opponents in a state of perpetual emergency.

The centre in a new detailed study titled July 15:Erdogans Coup, said from available data, the coup indictments, testimonials in court trials, private interviews, reviews of military expert opinions and other evidence collected by researchers, it is fairly confident that this attempt did not even qualify a coup bid in any sense of military mobilization which was unusually limited in numbers, confined in few cities, poorly managed, defied the established practices, tradition, rules of engagement and standard operating procedures in Turkish military.

This was a continuation of a series of false flags that were uncovered in the last couple of years under the authoritarian rule of Erdogan regime and it was certainly the bloodiest one, the centre said.

Erdogan appears to have tapped on widely circulated coup rumours in Turkish capital and staged own show to steal wind and set up his opposition for a persecution, the President of SCF, Abdullah Bozkurt, was quoted to have said.

Judging by Erdogan antecedents on how he had blatantly used the term parallel state to badmouth and demonise sympathisers of the Gulen movement in Turkey but without getting the desired result of suppressing them, the coup could as well be the best bet and the smokescreen of his government to silence the group and other opposition elements. This was what played out during the referendum in Turkey which was carried out under the emergency power of the president. Erdogan won big time by securing imperial presidency, consolidating his gains, stifling the opposition and even launching cross border military incursion into Syria for which he had been itching for too long.

The Turkish president, who appear to have unquenchable penchant for brutalising and detaining those who dare have a different political orientation from the one shares by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), reportedly called the July 15, 2016 coup attempt as a gift from God, as he now wields absolute power to do and undo anything he wishes to the detriment of the freedom of the Turkish people.

Today in Turkey, most media organisations and private schools have been shut down, thousands of public servants kicked out from government service, thousands of judges, teachers, doctors, military officers all thrown out from work. Many more who are not so lucky, including journalists, members of opposition, among others are now in detention without trial for allegedly taking part in the coup with no any iota of concrete evidence linking them to it.

Erdogan may have succeeded in silencing his opponents by carefully reaping the political capital of the July 15 coup attempt, but surely, he cannot come clean of involvement in the coup no matter how black he would paint those he accused of being behind it.

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Erdogans remarks, delivered at a higher education conference in Ankara, follow a million-strong protest by the nations secularist opposition, which enjoys greater support among the younger, more educated Turks.

This situation is definitely affected by reasons like not being able to give up on the life standards they got used to. But I believe that we, as heads of states, need to think of the real reasons that distance our youth from ourselves, Erdoan told the audience, according to the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.We need to carry measures that will prevent this brain drain, which is causing our science world to become a desert, into effect as soon as possible.

Brain drain is a term used to describe mass migration of highly educated people out of developing and undeveloped countries into the free world, in many cases the United States. Educated citizens flee the country seeking a better quality of life elsewhere, but in doing so diminish the population of educated citizens who can contribute to the further development of their home economies.

On top of that, we are transferring very serious amounts of money to Western countries for this. After these students complete their academic studies, we naturally expect them to return to their countries and serve their own people, he continued. But most of the time, those finishing their schools do not return to their homelands, but stay where they received education.

Erdogan curiously did not blame those emigrating for the phenomenon, instead urging Muslim governments and social institutions to give these individuals reasons to stay. Like in every society in the Muslim world, we stay away from issues that demand endeavor and patience, he claimed. If we are unsuccessful in raising a generation that asks, questions, and has ambitions for the future, a generation running after temporary whims emerges.

The most important responsibility falls on the shoulders of our universities. Universities are the production centers of science and unique and free thoughts. Every kind of idea that is not contaminated with terror and that does not encourage violence has a place and should have a place in the university, he concluded.

Erdogan had previously praised growing Muslim populations in Europe.From here I say to my citizens, I say to my brothers and sisters in Europe. Educate your children at better schools, make sure your family live in better areas, drive in the best cars, live in the best houses,he said in a speech in March. Have five children, not three. You are Europes future.

Erdogan has referred to the use of birth control by Turkish citizens as treason, while accusing Europe of drowning in its own fears of Muslims.

With these repeated demands to socially engineer the lives of Muslims, Erdogan has developed an image as a ruler seeking moral authority in the Muslim world. This week he added to that, demanding that the worlds Muslims storm Jerusalems Temple Mount, which led IsraeliForeign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon to reply, thedays of the Ottoman Empire are over.

A major hurdle to Erdogans aspirations become an Islamist moral authority is the fact that the Turkish populationparticularly younger andmore highly-educated Turks, the people he warns are moving to the Westare largely secular and have rejected Erdogans Islamist agenda.

The trend is not new. A 2014 study by the London School of Economics found a strong correlation between support for Erdogans Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) and lower education levels. Conversely, supporters of the secularist Republican Peoples Party (CHP)the party founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatrktended to be more educated than their peers.

A year later, a Pew study found that younger, more educated Turks, followers of the opposition Republican Peoples Party (CHP) and less devout Muslims are more disillusioned with the state of democracy under Erdogan than their more pious, less educated peers, and more likely to oppose Erdogan generally. Meanwhile, Erdogans supporters include AKP followers (87% favorable), Turks ages 50 and older (54%), lower educated Turks (53%) and Muslim Turks who pray 5 times per day or more (71%).

The CHP appeared to prove this remains the casetwo years, one failed coup, and one referendum to expand Erdogans powers laterwith a rally this month that ended a march from Ankara to Istanbul meant to protest the mass arrests of civil workers, politicians, police officers, and soldiers following the failed coup. The rally featured a speech by CHP head Kemal Kilicdaroglu in which he referred to Turkey as a dictatorship. The CHP claimed the Justice March attracted one million people.

Erdogans Islamist quest has also resulted in severely distorted school curricula that team Islamic supremacy, significantly damaging the quality of Turkish education. In February, the Turkish ministry of education unveiled a new education curriculum that greatly increased Quranic and Islamic studies while removing the teaching of evolution, replacing Western scientists with Muslim ones, and limiting exposure to the ideas of the nations highly secular founding fathers. If this trend continues, educated Turks may increasingly find a home in the AKP, but only at the expense of a proper secular educationthe kind that the Turkish economy needs them to have.

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Jared Kushner at an event with Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou in Washington, July 26, 2017. JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS

A Turkish reporter admitted that he fabricated a quote by Jared Kushner in which President Donald Trumps son-in-law and adviser reportedly said Turkish President Recep Erdogan is making Turkey great again like [the] U.S. We watch his efforts with appreciation.

Yavuz Atalay, a reporter for the newspaper AKSAM, told The Daily Caller Thursday that he made up the quote.

In a private Twitter exchange with The Daily Caller, Atalay said he spoke with Kushner for less than two minutes.

He did not say that, Atalay wrote of the quote in question. I asked him, Do you think, Erdogan is making Turkey great again, like Trump? and he only said, Yeah, I think so.

The White House did not respond to a follow-up question about the interview. A selfie with Kushner and the reporter accompanies the article.

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Atalay has a history of exaggerating the Trump administrations view of Erdogan and the Turkish government, according to The Daily Caller.

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Turkish Reporter Says He Made Up Jared Kushner Quote Praising Erdogan - Haaretz

A Turkish reporter admitted that he fabricated a quote by Jared Kushner in which President Donald Trumps son-in-law and adviser reportedly said Turkish President Recep Erdogan is making Turkey great again like [the] US, we watch his efforts with appreciation.

Yavuz Atalay, a reporter for the newspaper AKSAM, told The Daily Caller Thursday that he made up the quote.

In a private Twitter exchange with The Daily Caller, Atalay said he spoke with Kushner for less than two minutes.

He did not say that, Atalay wrote of the quote in question. I asked him, Do you think, Erdogan is making Turkey great again, like Trump? and he only said, Yeah, I think so.

A selfie with Kushner and the reporter accompanies the article.

A White House official told the Daily Caller that the journalist approached Jared for a selfie but is not quoted accurately. Its made up.

Atalay has a history of exaggerating the Trump administrations view of Erdogan and the Turkish government, according to The Daily Caller.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

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(KUWAIT CITY) Turkey's president waded into the diplomatic crisis gripping Qatar and four other Arab nations on Sunday, traveling to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as part of a three-country Gulf tour aimed at helping break the impasse.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the fifth high-level visitor from outside the Gulf to try to resolve the dispute since it erupted on June 5. The top diplomats of Britain, France, Germany and the United States have all been through already, underscoring the depth of concern the crisis is causing well beyond the region.

Erdogan faces a tougher challenge in securing a breakthrough than Turkey's NATO allies because of the increasingly warm ties, including the deployment of military forces, it has built with Qatar in recent years. While members of the anti-Qatar quartet have strong trade links with Turkey, its closeness to Qatar raises suspicions of its motives.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties and transport links with Qatar in early June, accusing it of supporting extremists. Qatar strongly denies the allegation and sees the dispute as politically motivated.

The quartet insisted Qatar accept a tough 13-point list of demands to end the rift, including shutting down news outlets including Al-Jazeera, cutting ties with Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, limiting ties with Iran and expelling Turkish troops stationed in the country. Qatar refused, arguing that the demands were an effort to undermine its sovereignty.

Turkey and Qatar announced plans to open Turkey's first military base in the Persian Gulf in 2015. The base opened last year and new troops have arrived since the Gulf rift erupted, raising fears of an escalation with the countries seeking to isolate it.

Fellow Gulf country Kuwait has attempted to mediate the dispute, so far without success. Erdogan met with Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, upon arrival in the country Sunday evening.

Erdogan began his trip earlier in the day in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf's political and economic heavyweight. During his visit to the Red Sea city of Jeddah, he held talks with King Salman and his presumed heir, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Brief statements of both meetings carried by the official Saudi Press Agency emphasized that the talks focused on ways to counter terrorism in addition to touching on bilateral and regional issues.

Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said in his first public comments on the dispute late Friday that Qatar is prepared to engage in dialogue, but that any resolution to the crisis must respect its sovereignty and that any terms cannot be dictated from outside. He also reiterated his country's commitment to fighting terrorism.

The anti-Qatar quartet has shown little sign of backing down.

UAE Minister of State for Foreign Relations Anwar al-Gargash responded to the emir's speech on Twitter saying that while dialogue is necessary, Qatar must review its policies because repeating its previous positions only "deepens the crisis."

Britain's top diplomat welcomed the Qatari leader's comments, however, and said his country will continue to work toward finding a solution.

"We hope that in turn Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain respond by taking steps towards lifting the embargo. This will allow substantive discussions on remaining differences to begin," British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said in a statement Sunday.

Abdullah al-Shihri in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, contributed to this report.

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