Letters to the editor: On Turkish politics, Brexit, GM crops, Airbnb, trade, autism, cricket

Print section

Print Headline: 


On Turkish politics, Brexit, GM crops, Airbnb, trade, cricket




Print Fly Title: 


Letters to the editor








UK Only Article:  standard article




Issue: 


Climate change in the era of Trump




Fly Title: 


Letters to the editor






Turkish politics“Turkey locks up dissidents” (November 12th) seriously understates the extent of the problem Turkey faces from the Gulenist terror organisation, FETO. This has been a recurring theme in European media, which perhaps also reflects why Turkey’s NATO allies were so slow to show their support for us during this year’s attempted coup.
Investigators have demonstrated that FETO’s political objective is to destabilise the Turkish republic and that it possesses the command structure, capacity and means to carry this out. Over the past 35 years it has established a network that has penetrated Turkish state institutions and civil society, by fair means and foul: indoctrinating recruits, stealing selection-exam papers for the civil service and armed ...