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Washington’s Strategic Defeat: Erdogan Trumps Gulenist Coup
08.08.2016 :: Middle EastIntroduction: For the past decade, the US intelligence agencies operating in Turkey have worked closely with the increasingly influential parallel government of Fethullah Gulen. Their approach to power was, until recently, a permeationist strategy, of covertly taking over political, economic, administrative, judicial, media, military and cultural positions gradually without resort to elections or military coups.