No Such Thing As Gülenist Police
Police Headquarters Spokesman and Assistant Chief of Police Feyzullah Arslan admitted that the matter of police being members of the Fethullah Gülen fundamentalist sect had been looked into in the past and officers had been fired but that current investigations had failed to turn up any police officer belonging to the sect, the Anatolia news agency reported yesterday. "Police Headquarters is very touchy on this point and investigations are continuing. The police is an organization that is committed to Ataturk's principles and reforms and is a democratic and secular organization. It is the Turkish Republic's police. If there is any deviation from this, our organization in definitely non-forgiving.The necessary judicial, administrative and disciplinary measures are taken," he said.
Arslan also played down news reports of Turkey being on the United States lists of drug trafficking countries. He said there was no such thing as a list of "Countries that give concern in drug trafficking" but that there was a list prepared annually by the United States called the Major List (leading drug producing and transit countries). He said Turkey was not on this list of 23 countries nor was there any concern that it would be.
Arslan also denied news of a "Texas Law" broadening gun ownership regulations. The current study, he corrected, was not to broaden the existing regulations but to plug the loopholes in them. 11.22.2001
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