Sibel Edmonds Turkish False Flag Leak Raw Draft TXT Dump

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(James Corbett): Late last week,
a conversation

between high-ranking Turkish officials
was leaked online, purporting to expose

a plan that had been devised to use a
staged attack

on a Turkish target in Aleppo

as a pretext to start a war with Syria

[Speaking in Turkish]

(James:) The leak of the conversation
was considered sensitive enough

that the government of Turkish
Prime Minister Erdoğan

took the extraordinary measure
of blocking YouTube in the country

to prevent the population from learning
about the story

ahead of key local elections.

That a false-flag event was being planned

as a pretext for a war with Syria

should come as no surprise to viewers
of the alternative media

who know that this was precisely
what happened last year

when rebel forces used
chemical weapons in Gouda

In an attack that was falsely blamed
on Syrian government forces --

a fact that was confirmed by a
recent MIT study into the incident.

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A study has now challenged
the US claim

that Syrian government forces
carried out the attack.

The study has been conducted by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

-- the MIT.

Based on mathematical calculations,

the study examined the range of the
improvised rocket used in the attack

saying it was too short to have
been launched

from government-controlled areas.

The MIT report concludes

that based on the firing range

and the troop locations

all possible launching points
within a 2-kilometer radius

were in insurgent-controlled areas.

(James): And the fact that Turkey,
in particular,

would be actively coordinating
a staged provocation

within the borders of Syria

should come as no surprise to followers
of BoilingFrogsPost.com

which broke the story in
November of 2011

of Syrian military defector Riad al-Asaad

training Syrian militants
at the American İncirlik base

in Adana, Turkey

And it should come as
no surprise to anyone

that the corporate media in the US

have attempted to obscure the actual
content of the conversations

in their limited reporting on the subject

Where the head of Turkish
intelligence says he will

"order his men to launch rockets
at Turkish targets from within Syria,"

The BBC portrays this as undefined
"military operations."

When the Turkish ambassdor
stresses

that any attack on the
tomb of Suleiman Shah

would have to be perpetrated by
Turkish agents

and made to look like an al-Qaeda attack,

Reuters calls this a plan
to "secure" the tomb.

When the Turkish foreign minister
points out that Prime Minister Erdoğan

sees any such attack as an opportunity
for Turkey to strike,

The Wall Street Journal portrays this as,

"taking the threat of radical groups
in Syria seriously."

The disconnect between what the
officials are actually talking about

and the way it is being described

is striking.

Still, there remain many questions
about the recording

and where it came from;
why it was released now;

and what it means for the future of
the NATO agenda in Egypt [sic]

and for the Turkish government.

Earlier this week, BoilingFrogsPost.com
editor and founder Sibel Edmonds

joined me on The Corbett Report

to discuss the recording

and what it means geopolitically.

Well, as far as what it means,

I don't think it means much.

As far as what we have in our hands,

we really don't know.

Because the four most
important questions

are not answered with this tape.

One is, who did the recording?

Which: we have a pretty good guess.

What was recorded?

-- and I'll get to that in a second --

and why it was recorded and released;

and when it was recorded;

and when it was released.

Well, we know when it was released;

it was recorded a long time ago;

and as far as who recorded this:

we have a pretty good idea that it is...

it's going to be Gülen; Fethullah Gülen;

imam Gülen-related network insiders.

The ones who have penetrated
the Turkish military, Turkish police --

and of course, as we can see, the
office of Prime Minister [laughs]

very successfully.

And also... the other important thing is,
with this:

authentication of the tape.

Now, there are two ways of
authenticating --

-- or there are two grounds.
One is the voice.

And it hasn't been authenticated;

but I would say they are authentic.

It's pretty obvious there.

But I listened to the tape several times

and I Iooked at the transcripts as well.

And to me, what...

-- it seems very important, here --
is the transcript.

And when you listen to the tape

you see a lot of inconsistencies, and...

Which points to: that this
was not recorded during one meeting,

and with those individuals present.

It looks and it sounds like a patchwork.

Meaning, much of these conversations

were taken from various contexts,

during different times,

and then they were connected together
and put together in this tape.

And they have done a pretty shoddy
job with that, obviously. [laughs]

They maybe rushed it? I don't know:
they haven't done a good job.

But this recording and the transcript,

it's not coming from one
particular meeting.

And it's very easy to do:

when you can take sentences
out of different contexts

from different times and put it together,

you can arrive at a totally different,

whole different meaning.

So that hasn't happened.

But again, from looking at it...

I'm not a forensic expert, but I did
work for the FBI

and I did do translations
on tapes like this

live or pre-recorded

and this does not sound authentic

in terms of being recorded
during the same time.

And as far as why it was released?

Again, that is pretty obvious here:

it was not released to increase
public awareness

or for altruistic reasons.

They released this tape a few days
before the local elections

very highly-strategic, sensitive
elections in Turkey

So the intent is extremely important:

to see what was the intention
behind releasing these tapes

-- and the intentions are not good.
[laughs]

Or, it's not for the public knowledge,

or because there are some people

who are concerned about
a war with Syria.

It has nothing to do with
any of these reasons.

The intent is pure and simple:

they wanted to affect the...

influence the elections result.

So: that's for that.

And another important thing that,
for me,

shows that this has been highly edited

and tampered with -- the recordings:

Again: I'm very familiar with discussions

that take place

within the diplomatic communities

and various governmental entities,

as part of my work with the FBI.

And -- especially with Turkey --

there would never, ever be
such a meeting -- long meeting --

on this kind of a topic

without the mentioning of

-- minimum of 100 times --

-- at least in every other sentence --

mentioning of Pentagon;

NATO; the United States.

Because, as we know, Turkey is
part of the NATO.

Turkey is a member of NATO.

And of course, Turkey was stopped

later in this whole process with Syria

from going -- even -- at it alone.

Because they were already bogged down

into this whole mess with Syria.

That was completely crafted

by the United States, of course:
Pentagon.

So, there is no mention:

that, itself, will tell you that
that was sanitized.

And the tapes were heavily sanitized.

And why would they sanitize

the parts that have to do

with the United States and NATO,

and their positions?

Well, of course, that's because the actors
that are involved

-- that did the recording
and released it:

this is Fethullah Gülen,

which is completely under
CIA's management.

Fethullah Gülen has been
with Langley -- CIA --

since 1997 -- has been working.

It's the operation of the CIA and NATO:

Gladio B, that we have spoken about.

So, as we see: they are,
basically, protecting their masters

by sanitizing the tapes

from all the information,

or conversations, or points made

that would have had the Pentagon,

or the United States, or NATO.

But I can guarantee that:

there would never be a meeting like this

a topic like this

where you won't hear several times,

dozens of times:

"Pentagon..."

"Well, NATO..."

Or, particular people within the NATO.

It just doesn't take place.

Because... it doesn't.

It hasn't, and it won't, and it doesn't.

(James): Although the leaked recording
makes a brief mention

of the US Secretary of State John Kerry
and the US government,

this latest development, like so many
other developments in Turkish politics,

seems to studiously avoid

-- or to have been studiously
edited --

to remove more substantial revelations
of US State Department

and Pentagon cooperation with the
Turkish forces.

Such as the role of İncirlik
as a staging ground

for these Syrian terrorist insurgents.

Instead, the recording has to be seen

in terms of the struggle
between the CIA-backed Gülenists

and Prime Minister Erdoğan,

a former favorite ally of the
Western powers

who has fallen out of favor
in recent years.

Although intended to derail
Erdoğan's party

in the recent crucial elections,

it ended up having no noticeable impact,

with the AKP claiming a landslide victory
in the contest.

In fact, this conversation leak is just
one of a number of similar operations

in recent months, including the leak of a
conversation implicating Erdogan

in the release of a sex tape
in a political scandal

and a video of the Prime Minister

telling his son
to hide money from investigators.

These previous leaks led to the
Turkish government's attempt

to ban Twitter use in the country
in the name of fighting

an international conspiracy
against the government:

a ban that backfired.

(Erdoğan speaks to crowd in Turkish)

(Male Translator): "Can you imagine
there are international conspiracies?"

"Twitter-witter!"

"We have a court order now."

"We will wipe out all of these."

"The international community can say
this, can say that: I don't care at all."

"Everyone will see how powerful
the Republic of Turkey is."

(Male TV Anchor): Twitter says
anyone in Turkey can still tweet

via SMS: text, in other words.

Many are reportedly using

a service provided by Google

to get around the block.

Twitter users in Turkey

may have actually increased

since the government crackdown.

On Thursday...

-- have a look at the numbers --

On Thursday, there were 138%
more tweets from Turkey

than on the day before,

according to the analytics firm
Brand Watch.

(James): As Edmonds explains, however,

just because the most recent tape
was not leaked

for the purpose of derailing any
false-flag operation,

it does have that
unintended consequence.

(James): Very interesting, indeed.

And I think one of the most interesting
parts of this

is that even though it wasn't released
for altruistic purposes;

and even though it was heavily redacted,

it could still have a good effect
on at least getting people to question

in the event of... the wake of
whatever tragedy comes along.

So, hopefully we can use
something of this.

(Sibel): Absolutely!
I would call it a "positive externality."

You know, you have negative?
This is positive externality.

No matter what, it has nothing
to do with elections or anything.

It put it within people's consciousness

both at home in Turkey, but also abroad.

So, that's a good thing.

And saying that, even if
that was going to take place,

it's not going to:
just for the fact that this was released.

Though that was not the intention
of releasing these tapes,

because of... "Uh, that scenario's
not gonna work."

[laughs] "That hand was played before."

(James): As to what will happen
in the future,

pieces continue to be moved around
on the Turkish chessboard.

Earlier this week, Erdoğan's lawyers
pressed charges

on former Turkish intelligence official
Ali Fuat Yılmazer

Reputedly an operative
for the insurgent Gülen gang.

To keep up to date with these developments

and what they mean
for the future of the region

Please stay tuned to BoilingFrogsPost.com.

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