for sustainable peace, democracy,human rights and freedom... iOSAndroidMobile Tuesday, November 12, 2013 Home News Compilations Interviews Serials Investigations Topics Home > News Opposition in Turkey ‘WikiLeaks’ Sarıgül Dines With Controversy Mustafa Sarıgül, who gained notoriety due to a number of claims from WikiLeaks, has met with pro-war members of the shadowy Council on Foreign Relations on the same day he returned to the opposition party the CHP. Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:26pm Mustafa Sarıgül, the District Mayor of Şişli, İstanbul, has gotten straight down to ‘business’ on his first day as an official member of the CHP by meeting former US ambassador to Syria and Saudi Arabia and Council on Foreign Relations member Richard Murphy, for an evening meal. Sarıgül is a former member of the CHP who stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the CHP Chairmanship against the former chairman Deniz Baykal, resigning from the party after the defeat. Despite an absence, Sarıgül still remains a controversial name in the CHP for his lack of criticism for the AKP Government, and for a reported visit to the US to meet Fethullah Gülen, moves that have distanced him from Kemalists. Sarıgül is currently the subject of heavy publicity having released an autobiography in late 2013, with AKP circles maintaining claims that they have a detailed file related to corrupt practice of Sarıgül in their hands. Murphy himself has been a long-serving US diplomat and later ambassador in the greater Middle East, spending his early career in Beirut, Lebanon; Aleppo, Syria; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; and Amman, Jordan before becoming director for the Arabian Peninsula and director of personnel for the Bureau of Near Eastern affairs. Following retirement in 1989, he joined the shady Council on Foreign Relations organisation as the Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for the Middle East, where he remained until 2004. The controversial group has been cited as being the USA’s “most influential foreign-policy think tank,” with members ranging from former ambassadors to business leaders, formers secretaries of state to heads of NGOs. The current board of directors includes the former US Secretaries of State, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell. According to the news of Turkish newspaper Hürriyet, Sargül discussed with Murphy the upcoming local elections, where Sarıgül is expected by many to run for the highly-prized position of mayor of Istanbul, currently held by Kadir Topbaş of the AKP. At the meal attended by CHP group president Faruk Loğoğlu and his wife Mevhibe Loğoğlu, Murphy asked Sarıgül “If they accuse you of not being sufficiently conservative, what will you say?” to which the Şişli District Mayor responded by stating “My stance and my position on the subject of conservative values are the common knowledge of the public. Not only I, but my family too possess an exemplary framework on the issue of conservative.” The meeting between Sarıgül and Murphy has led to questions being raised as to why these two figures from considerably different circles would meet on such an important day for Sarıgül. While Sarıgül has not climbed any higher on the political ladder than district mayor, Richard Murphy is known as a close observer of affairs in Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and for defending the key role Shia-Sunni violence will play in the remodelling of the Middle East, as well as giving verbal support to the Muslim Brotherhood. Many in Turkey and across the globe will no doubt be left wondering whether the US government is preparing Sarıgül for a future role as their man in the upper echelons of government, similar to what former US ambassador to Turkey Morton Abramowitz appeared to do back in 1996 when he met then-Istanbul mayor Tayyip Erdoğan for a series of meetings which are said to have precipitated the PM’s climb to the top. tags : Turkey, CHP, Sarıgül, Richard Murphy, USA Read Shared Watched 1 Top Health Organizations Hard Words to Erdoğan 2 More Blood Spills on Streets of Egypt 3 Injured, Murdered, But Never Forgotten Columnists Mehmet Ali GULLERIs the Iran-PKK Ceasefire Over? Doğu PERINCEKAn Alevi Minority? İsmet OZCELIKAKP Caught In the Act Rafet BALLIPKK: Danger for US Sunni Radicalism, not Iran Mustafa MUTLUQuestion and Rebellion Of The Day Hasan BOGUNGeneva II Turns Into An Enigma 123456 Aydınlık © 2012 Aydınlık is not responsible for the content of external sites.
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