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In 2013-2014 I had searched to see if Turkey was attempting to distance itself from the NATO alliance, but apparently the covert ties to the hegemony runs deep. I was asking is Recep Tayyip Erdogan more than another puppet politician?
Since 2003, the deception for the Iraqi invasion, where “[A]lmost all government intelligence on whether Iraq pursued or possessed weapons of mass destruction has proved faulty,” I have energetically followed all links to track down new links for inquiry to determine as much truth as possible within my limited budget.
This year I am feeling exhausted with the over-whelming mountains of documented evidence of institutional deception over the cumulative years. Thus, I encourage the readers to click on the links to piece together the worldwide puzzle of deception.
So I now have the equation that when looking at a institution or politician and official from that institution you are looking at a deceiver or someone who is controlled by deception.
How do you convince citizens to cheer for war?
By promising the noble lie: protection and to end the war.
Latest example: Thank you Mr. Putin for embracing the war against terror!
[Addendum 14 Feb 2016: My cynicism is on display here, some foreign readers may have misinterpreted the nuanced meaning.]
Bluntly stated, there are no “good” guys, as this is not a two choice decision.
Look for the truth as the hidden option, because the truth is not presented as a campaign choice nor headlined.
I saw, and I still see, the script calling for the escalation of World War.
Turkey’s covert (CIA, MI6, etc.) connections, wealth and policies are under the public spotlight as the war against terror and campaign against Syria continues; Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to be targeted for a campaign to oust him or engineer the war to spill-over into Turkey…
turkey and its neighbours map
Escalating WWIII Via Middle East…
zerohedge (alternative media) reported:
“a gold-smuggling scandal that took place under the nose of the US and the international community for years, one which allowed Iran to skirt international sanctions using gold as a barter tool to keep its economy going and involved China and Russia among many other nations, and one which saw the participation of not only the economic and prime ministers of Turkey (and current president) but also countless corrupt Turkish politicians and the richest person in Iran, but also the second most powerful person in Dubai, the largest holding company in the Arab Emirates and the largest gold holding company in the Gulf state.” –zerohedge.com
West Prepares to Replace Their Puppet in Turkey
Click to Listen to Podcast audio:
“Sibel Edmonds of BoilingFrogsPost.com joins us once again to discuss the ongoing “reverse engineering” of Erdogan by the NATO/CIA/Kurdish/Israeli/Russian forces that oppose him. We talk about the hypocritical and nearly-unanimous coverage of Erdogan’s abuses and how and why this narrative is converging now to finish the US/NATO task of removing him from office to usher in a more pliable puppet.” –Corbett Report
SHOW NOTES:
Interview 809 – Sibel Edmonds Explains Erdogan’s Fall From Grace
Turkish PM Erdogan: The Speedy Transformation of an Imperial Puppet
75 US-Trained Rebels Enter Syria From Turkey
Is Erdogan Being Set Up For A NATO-backed Coup?
New evidence of Erdoğan’s secret meeting with al-Qadi emerges
BFP Exclusive: Syria – Secret US-NATO Training & Support Camp to Oust Current Syrian President
Russian FM plans to meet co-leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP party
Philip Giraldi on the latest in Turkey
Gulen movement secretly funded 200 trips for lawmakers and staff
U.S. lawmakers got suspect Turkish campaign cash
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Exclusive: “And It’s Gone… It’s All Gone” – The One Gold Scandal That Goes To The Very Top
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2015
Long before Turkey was flagrantly arming and funding the CIA-created “terrorist organization” known as ISIS, there was another, far more elaborate way in which Turkey was flaunting international sanctions against an ostracized state – in this case Iran – which involved an epic gold smuggling triangle of Hollywood-thriller proportions, all made possible thanks to the United Arab Emirate city of Dubai.
Best known known for its luxury shopping, ultramodern architecture including the world’s tallest building, a lively nightlife scene, and a facade of openness and decorum, what Dubai is less known for is its unprecedented seedy underbelly of corruption and untouched criminality among the handful of billionaire oligarchs, princes, sheiks and sultans, who quietly dominate the local (and global) power and financial structure.
But first, a little history.
It may seem like a distant memory now, but just a few short years ago, instead of a close ally of Barack Obama, Iran was a pariah state subject to international financial sanctions due to its nuclear program development, one which Israel had repeatedly (and famously) threatened would attack preemptively to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Iran, of course, had no choice but to find ways to keep its economy going, and in order to circumvent these sanctions, it resorted to the oldest form of trade known to man: gold.
This, in itself, is not surprising. What is surprising is how and with whom Iran collaborated to breach the international embargo in order to obtain this valuable and much needed gold, which it could then barter with other countries – notably those along the Pacific Rim – in exchange for any and all needed products and services.
A Reuters article from October 23, 2012 explained, in broad terms, just how Iran’s intricate smuggling operation worked.
So three years ago, Turkey was purchasing Iran oil and paying in gold. Now it is purchasing ISIS oil and paying in dollars, for the simple reason that there is no banking embargo against the Islamic State like there was against Iran in 2012. One almost wonders why the international community was far stricter with Iran than it is with ISIS now.
Anyway, continuing on, we present: the Dubai connection.
However, instead of suddenly having a craving for Turkish gold, Dubai was merely a middleman which would then resell Turkey’s gold to Iran, in exchange for a very generous commission.
And as everyone knows, what better way to “lose” gold at a moment’s notice than to be involved in an “unfortunate shipping accident”…
Fear not: if the Erdogan family was guaranteed, say 5% of the total transaction price, it would gladly close its eyes, even if it meant the Ayatollah singing lullabies and war chants to Assad in his bedroom.
But why gold?
Simple: while Iran’s banks had been locked out of SWIFT international money transfer system (until mid-2015 when Obama’s historic nuclear deal with Iran was announced and let Iran back into the global financial community), and commerce was virtually impossible in fiat currency terms, the UN sanctions did not prohibit most forms of trade. As a result there was no suggestion that the gold trade involving Dubai was violating international sanctions. In fact, the west tacitly encouraged, and Turkey latched on to this great source of trade arbitrage, and unbridled corruption with both hands. Reuters continued:
It was a golden free for all: “a customs broker who does business at Ataturk said couriers were boarding Turkish Airlines and Emirates flights to Dubai at the airport, carrying the metal in their hand luggage to avoid the risk of it getting lost or stolen.”
The Reuters article cut off at the most important part: who were the people organizing the trade? “The trade data shows almost $1.4 billion worth of Turkey’s August exports to the UAE came from a company or companies with a tax number registered in the coastal city of Izmir, Turkey’s third biggest. Customs officials at Ataturk declined a Reuters request to provide documents identifying the exporters, saying the information was confidential. The identity of the companies handling the business could not be confirmed. Traders said that because of the risk of attracting unwelcome attention from U.S. authorities, only a few companies were likely to be willing to get involved.”
Almost a year later, we found out just why the local authorities were so very cautious about identifying the people on the Turkish side behind this “perfectly legal trade”- it involved everyone from an Iranian billionaire, Riza Sarraf, to Turkey’s then economy minister, Zafer Caglayan, all the way to the very top, you guessed it, current president and then prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A Bloomberg follow up piece from the summer of 2013 laid out all the key actors on the Turkish side:
Caglayan resigned on Dec. 25 as economy minister after the investigation became public, is immune from prosecution as a member of parliament. Erdogan, whose bribes from this operations were in the hundreds of millions of dollars, did everything in his power as then-prime minister to kill the probe and decried the inquiry as an “attempted coup”, a card he has pulled every single time some political probe gets too close to his unprecedented financial crimes, which have a recurring pattern: sell goods and services to an organization isolated by the international community, and pocket tens or hundreds of millions in “commissions” and bribes in the process.
Since then Erdogan has made Turkey his personal despotic fiefdom, and after serving as prime minister from 2003 to 2014, he was “elected” president in which role he serves to this day. There is not a soul in Turkey who poses any political threat to Erdogan, whose vast plundered financial fortune assures that the army would be on his side even in a military coup scenario.
In any case, the spice, or rather gold, flowed. As Bloomberg confirmed in 2013, “the covert efforts that Caglayan and his associates undertook eventually swelled to a multi-billion dollar enterprise that reached from Ghana to China, according to the investigation. Tons of gold flowed from Turkey to Iran, much of it via Dubai. That freed up Iranian money trapped in Turkish banks, in turn boosting Turkish exports.
It was not just Erdogan and Caglayan who made a killing: “Smoothing out the complications of this shadowy and complex trade were bribes to Turkish government ministers: multimillion-dollar diamonds, and millions of dollars stuffed into suit bags, chocolate boxes and even shoe boxes, the investigation document says.”
Meanwhile, the amounts of gold shipped from Turkey to Iran via Dubai were simply staggering:
Ultimately, this unprecedented in its vast scale and scope gold smuggling operation, which stretched as far as China, Moscow and Azerbaijan, faded: in July 2013 the U.S. added precious metals to the list of items that couldn’t be sold to Iran as part of an effort to curtail that country’s nuclear enrichment program.
At that moment that Iran gold smuggling party for Turkey was over, and it was time to find a new foreign “trade” partner. A year later one emerged in the form of ISIS as has been documented here previously…
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All of this has been publicly known so far. What follows is being reported for the first time.
While in 2012 and 2013 the world’s attention was focused on Iran and Turkey, with both Reuters and Bloomberg scrambling to find the involved parties, nobody paid any attention to the key middle-man responsible for billions in smuggled gold, Dubai. And while the main Turkish actors and beneficiaries of this gold smuggling have been extensively documented, nothing at all has been written about any of the Dubai intermediaries who also made hundreds of millions, if not more, simply for facilitating the move of gold from point A to point B.
Which is strange, because for anyone doing even a little cursory digging, the answer was there in broad daylight all along.
Presenting Mohammed Abu-Alhaj: the key Dubai “connection” in the Turkey-Iran gold smuggling triangle.
Who is Abu-Alhaj? A brief biography from his public profile:
What made Abu-Alhaj unique was his early fascination and interest in Turkey and its role in “physical deliverable gold” trading. A fascination which paid off in droves. Follow excerpts from article from Turkish newspaper Dunya…
… ironically written on October 23, 2012, the same day as Reuters first exposed Turkey’s role in this epic gold smuggling triangle.
He may be right about that, but it is everything else that has raised a red flag. Incidentally, those curious can read much more about Abu-Alhaj’s push into Turkey’s gold market in the Press section of his Gold.AE website.
But just who is Gold Arab Emirate, or Gold AE, based out of Dubai? We ask because we – like most of our readers – had never heard of this company before. Perhaps the company’s biggest claim to fame was the first gold ATM it introduced in the Emirates back in 2010, to much media fanfare.
Ok, so they make gold ATMs. What else? For the answer we go straight to the company’s website.
Notable is the website’s description of its executive management, which presents Abu-Alhaj as Chairman and Managing Director. Keep that in mind because it will be important shortly.
But even more important, is the company’s description of itself as a subsidiary of Gold Holding Ltd. Who is Gold Holdings? Again, we go to the source:
Basically, if Gold AE is the Turkey-focused trading front, Gold Holding is the mothership which deals with all major activities behind the scenes. This becomes immediately obvious when looking at the main shareholders and management team of the Holding company.
Please bear with us a few more minutes as we close all these semingly unconnected loops of ownership, because while most other names presented so far are largely meaningless, one name above stands out, that of Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Sultan is the advisor to the President of UAE, the eldest son of Khalifa Bin, President of the United Arab Emirates, Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Ruler of Abu Dhabi.
Basically, Sultan is the second in command in the United Arab Emirates.
As for SBK Holding, it is the Holding Company of Sultan Bin Khalifa. “With its headquarters in the United Arab Emirates, SBK Holding has a range of companies that serve a broad cross-section of industries not only in the Gulf region but also globally.”
A quick glance at the company’s website shows that it is involved in virtually everything, and among the things it is involved in, is a vast gold trading empire courtesy of the Gold Holding company.
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To recap the story so far:
All of this brings us to today, and the following letter which the suddenly very unfortunate clients of Gold.AE aka “Your Gold Bank“, just received.
To loosely paraphrase South Park “aaaannd it’s gone. The gold is all gone.”
For all those who just received the letter, and had funds at Gold.AE, our condolences, because if there is any confusion, what it says is that after a cursory inquiry into the operations of the “former” management team, the one led by Abu-Alhaj, not only did the “management team” vaporize with all the funds held in the trading group, but they “seemed to be unavailable”, meaning the management team itself vaporized. It also means that any funds you may have had there are gone for ever.
Furthermore, since the letter explicitly highlights the “minority shareholders”, one wonders: was Sheik Sultan bin khalifah Al nahyan, the second most important person in Abu Dhabi, and a majority shareholder, involved in this unprecedented raiding of a company that was instrumental in the Turkey-to-Iran gold smuggling campaign?
And if he wasn’t directly involved, just how much about this company’s gold-smuggling operations did he know?
But perhaps the money is not completely vaporized. Perhaps it is simply sitting in the following Swiss bank as per the letter:
Then again, we doubt that any money parked by the fraudulent management team of Gold AE will ever be uncovered, if only in the public realm: after all, the tentacles of this particular scandal stretch very far, so far that anyone who dares to talk will not live to say much more.
How far?
Let’s summarize once again: a gold-smuggling scandal that took place under the nose of the US and the international community for years, one which allowed Iran to skirt international sanctions using gold as a barter tool to keep its economy going and involved China and Russia among many other nations, and one which saw the participation of not only the economic and prime ministers of Turkey (and current president) but also countless corrupt Turkish politicians and the richest person in Iran, but also the second most powerful person in Dubai, the largest holding company in the Arab Emirates and the largest gold holding company in the Gulf state.
A scandal which resulted in untold riches for everyone involved, and has also resulted in the Dubai management team disappearing with what may well be billions in stolen funds.
And, naturally, there is a token “anonymous” Swiss bank to boot, which is likely the resting place of said stolen billions.
All of this it is real, it happened, and is not the screenplay of the next James Bond movie.
And – the punchline – it all revolves around one of the simplest products known to man: gold.
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I want to comment on the Corbett Report above and that Boiling Frogs woman. As far as I’m aware, Erdoğan has never been a US puppet. His government refused to go into Iraq with George Dubya, Erdoğan publicly accused Israel of being a terrorist state, and defended Muhammed Morsi in Egypt after he was overthrown by what the US refuses to call a military coup. If his government had not pulled the teeth of Turkey’s military, I have no doubt the AKP government would have been ousted in the same way, probably with CIA connivance. As the lady observes, the biggest problem for those who want to see Erdoğan go (is she on the side of the CIA and the US government here?) is the continuing popularity of him and the AKP party government with a large chunk of Turkey’s electorate, plus the total inability of their opponents to offer anything credible as an alternative. For her information, Turkey is a democracy where most of the voters actually turn out to vote, unlike some other countries I could name. Why is it the business of any other country to get rid of the elected leader of another sovereign state?
With all due respect, I think those know-it-all American commentators should concentrate on sorting out the problems in their own country, since that is largely what is causing the problems in the rest of the world.Start by making sure the world doesn’t have to put up with Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump as leaders of the ‘free’ world!
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I see your passion.
Perhaps Erdoğan will survive the obvious campaign to oust him.
But even more important are the People’s safety and joyful living is under attack.
(That goes for all nations, where a “silent war” is stealthily being waged against the citizens)
Being a member of NATO has both rewards and risks.
Turkey is on board of a worldwide geopolitical chessboard as world war escalates…
The U.S. is a (center stage major role) puppet, a captured state, and simultaneously deception runs throughout all the 193 member nations playing the worldwide geopolitical game as world war escalates.
{I am not seeing a hero among any of the 193 member nations}
Thus, we are all facing the same worldwide matrix and my wish is for researchers not to be trapped into cheering for a side, because regardless which side wins (i.e. label it “democracy”, or some other freedom slogan touting institutional regime) the same deceptive worldwide monetary matrix remains.
May I offer a suggestion?
Contact Sibel Edmonds or James Corbett with your observations.
I have spoken with James on several occasions and he has always been polite and studious in a constructive manner with my critical observations.
Let us not take personal offense to a critical (re)view of a nation state’s geopolitical activity.
Mrs. Sibel Edmonds: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/contact/
Mr. James Corbett: https://www.corbettreport.com/contact/
If wrong information was presented we will all benefit by your helpful input in correcting false information.
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Thanks, Ron. Sorry, I sometimes get a bit worked up about the c**p circulating out there about Turkey. And as the lady observed, there seems to be a wide coalition of interests serving it up. I can’t understand why they get so excited about Turkey when it seems to me there are guiltier governments around.
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Thank you Alan, I totally understand, and the international community has many reasons to point the accusatory finger at the Hypocrite U.S. government.
– An effective slogan for world war, don’t you think? –
A villain, the U.S., a exceptional “enemy” in plain sight for the world to rally a world war.
What the rest of the world may not be aware of is that the mass media is effectively hiding the fact that a massive distaste for the U.S. government is domestic for perhaps the first time since the 1775 rebellion.
Each month more proud, patriotic citizens are awakening to the deception. They face the ugly truth that “their government” (in this case the U.S., but take your pick from 192 other nations) is a captured state deceiving the world.
I am proud it has not erupted into armed conflict, because a revolution would be a defeat even if the U.S. government lost. A revolution would only return us (revolution = 360 degrees) to the same predicament we are witnessing today.
I can identify 193 guilty nations, but as you say none more guilty than the center stage U.S. public face promoted worldwide in the leadership role. But choosing sides only would perpetuate this fraudulent system with a different puppet figurehead nation state.
As slow and messy as this current transition is – it still has the potential to usher in the next Age because instead of supporting war we have worldwide awareness of institutional deception.
My wish is to live to see grassroots massive worldwide boycotts, an end to this Age of Deception…
To be fair to James Corbett, he (as you said) “get so excited about” all 193 nations, Turkey happened to be the topic in the above report.
As for Mrs Sibel Edwards, who is fluent in English, Turkish, Farsi and Azerbaijani, you would get the answer to your question if you ask her directly in Turkish.
I see Truth Seekers all in this together, facing one world of mass deception.
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War On Terror: Here Comes Pakistan
https://lozzafun1.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/pakistan-joins-russia-condemns-any-attempts-to-topple-assad-in-syria/
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They Are Making The Call To Arms Public
Apparently the efforts to escalate the World War are being increased via mass media!
Source: http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/12/28/schweizer-armee-chef-warnt-vor-sozialen-unruhen/
Iran launch missile tests in the Persian Gulf.
Iran warned the international community beforehand and yet the U.S. see it as provocation:
http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/12/30/us-militaers-nervoes-iran-testet-raketen-in-der-naehe-von-westlichen-kriegsschiffen/
“US-Militärs nervös: Iran testet Raketen in der Nähe von westlichen Kriegsschiffen
Nervosität bei der US-Militärführung: Der Iran hat einen Raketentest unweit von US-Kriegsschiffen durchgeführt. Die Amerikaner sprechen von einer Provokation. Allerdings hatte der Iran alle Schiffe gewarnt, sich von der Region im Persischen Golf fernzuhalten. ”
A translated piece from the above news report:
“We see these firings in such close proximity to the ships as highly provocative,” said the military official who was initially not authorized to give his name in public, as the AFP reports. He confirmed a report by NBC News, after one of the rockets to a distance of 1500 meters at the US aircraft carriers came, who crossed the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Also, a French frigate and a US destroyer were accordingly in the area.
Saudi Arabia and Turkey agree on close [Military] cooperation
Saudi Arabia and Turkey want to join a close strategic partnership. Both countries aim to reorder the Middle East. Whether the NATO country Turkey will also enter into a closer military cooperation with the Saudis, is still unclear.
Read: http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/12/30/saudi-arabien-und-tuerkei-vereinbaren-enge-zusammenarbeit/
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