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TURKISH TOP COMMANDER AIDE ADMITS<br />

GULEN 'LOYALTY'<br />

"I am a member of the parallel state, or FETO. I have served this<br />

community for years voluntarily. I have obeyed the orders and<br />

instructions of the big brothers exactly," he confessed<br />

Lieutenant Colonel Levent Turkkan,<br />

former aide of chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar<br />

"MAIN PERPETRATOR"<br />

Lieutenant Colonel Levent Turkkan, former aide of Chief of<br />

Turkey's General Staff Hulusi Akar, admitted to having links<br />

with FETO, which he said was the "main perpetrator" of coup<br />

attempt<br />

"BIG BROTHERS"<br />

"I continued to see my big brothers while in military school.<br />

"THEY GAVE ME EXAM ANSWERS"<br />

"I took the military school entrance exam in 1989. I was a<br />

bright student and was sure I would pass the exams by my<br />

own efforts. But the night before the exam, my 'big brothers'<br />

[FETO handlers] gave me the answers to the exam"<br />

“EAVESDROPPING”<br />

"I spied on [former] Chief of Staff Necdet Ozel all the time. I<br />

put a recording device in his room in the morning and took it<br />

back in the evening.”<br />

WHILE UNDER INTERROGATION, TURKKAN ALSO PROVIDED<br />

INFORMATION ON HOW THE GULEN<br />

MOVEMENT WAS ORGANIZED INSIDE THE TURKISH MILITARY<br />

“I believe 60-70 percent of those people who have been accepted inside<br />

the armed forces since the 1990s are linked to Gulen"<br />

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