Glory to the Turkish: Erdogan defeats George Soros (closing his operations in Turkey)

[Old_Observer]

 

 

George Soros’s Open Society Foundation says it will cease operations in Turkey, days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the billionaire philanthropist of trying to divide and destroy nations.

The organization said it was no longer possible to work in Turkey after it became the target of “baseless claims” in the media and a renewed investigation by Turkish authorities into mass protests against Erdogan’s government five years ago.

It said the Turkish Interior Ministry was renewing attempts to prove that the Soros foundation was behind the 2013 Gezi Park protests, one of the biggest political challenges to Erdogan’s 15-year rule. The foundation denied any link to the protests.

Erdogan denounced Soros last week while speaking of the detention of 13 activists and academics accused of supporting attempts by jailed businessman and rights advocate Osman Kavala to revive the Gezi protests.

“The person (Kavala) who financed terrorists during the Gezi incidents is already in prison,” Erdogan told a meeting of local administrators on Wednesday.

“And who is behind him? The famous Hungarian Jew Soros. This is a man who assigns people to divide nations and shatter them. He has so much money and he spends it this way.”

PressTV-Erdogan accuses Soros of aiding Turkish philanthropist

The jailed philanthropist faces hugely controversial charges of seeking to overthrow the government.

One of the 13 people detained on November 16 was Hakin Altinay, who helped establish the Open Society Foundation in Turkey. Others were staff members of Kavala’s Anadolu Kultur center, which campaigns for human rights and cultural diversity.

All but one of the detainees were later released, but not before the European Union and United States expressed concern about their cases.

Ankara’s Western allies have repeatedly criticized the arrest of tens of thousands of people since a failed military coup in Turkey in July 2016.

Money transfers 

Kavala, in detention for more than a year, said on Monday in a statement posted on his website that he was still waiting for an indictment to be prepared so that he could prove that the claims he had helped to direct and finance the Gezi protests and wanted to overthrow the government were “unfounded."

The pro-government Sabah newspaper, citing reports from financial crime investigators, said on Monday the Open Society Foundation had made financial transfers to Kavala’s organization to support the spread of the Gezi protests nationwide.

It said nearly 1.9 million lira had been transferred between August 2011 and April 2017.

The foundation said it informed the Turkish authorities every year about which institutions and projects had received donations, and the authorities had approved them.

“However, with the new investigations that have been opened, it is seen that there is an effort to link the Open Society Foundation to the Gezi incidents in 2013. These efforts are not new and they are outside reality,” it said.

The foundation said it would apply for the legal liquidation and winding up of the company’s operations as soon as possible.

“The increase of baseless claims and disproportionate speculation in the media in recent days has made it impossible for the foundation to continue its operations.”

Soros, a US-based financier and philanthropist, and his Open Society Foundation have also come under fire in Hungary. Prime Minister Viktor Orban accuses Soros and the liberal causes he backs of trying to undermine Europe’s Christian culture by promoting mass migration, a charge the financier denies.

(Source: Reuters)

[Old_Observer]

 

Very sad crying. Soros thought Erdogan will cower like Europeans.

 

[Holac]

Glorious Tayip.  This Soros creature is being blamed for everything. 

[galbeedi]

Soros does a lot of good things around the world supporting open societies and help immigrants .It is wrong to blame every thing on him.

Yet, it is true that Gesi park incident begun as simple protest of people opposed to development to a revolution targeting Erdogan. Even the CNN carried live for hours to make it a public apprising.

Unlike what the media says everyone in Turkey is free to express their freedom of speech . Those targeted by the state were the terrorist Fethullah Gullen people who operated as a criminal elements within  the state undermining the Turkish state. Imagine if a group of American officers, judges and media people tried to overthrow the constitution from inside openly.

No America journalist will publish the movements of America army or the intelligence officers under operation. Those who are imbedded with army must clear their dispatches with army and not produce any state secrets.

Let the Caravan of of the great Suldaan Erdogan reach it's destination in 2023, the centenary of the Turkish Republic.

[Holac]

Gesi Park protest was instigated and organized by Gullen movement.

[Old_Observer]

14 hours ago, Holac said:

Glorious Tayip.  This Soros creature is being blamed for everything. 

Its the principe and modus operandi that is called Soros.

Since he is a money trader, he has no loyalty to any country or system.

No responsibility for consequences, just destroy any system, faith, country that does not allow him to make money his way.