- In 2005, two Turkish Kemalist generals told Dugin to watch for an eventual break with NATO by Turkey, and a possible military-strategic partnership with Russia, China and Iran.
- Gulen's network infiltrated had all Turkish institutions, and practically ran the judicial system, police and air force. (They even infiltrated the Russian army.)
- Growing ties between the secular Kemalists and the Russians in the early 2000s led to the Ergenikon affair, in which U.S.-tied Gulenists fabricated charges against the pro-Russian Kemalists. (The West even tied the accused Kemalists to Dugin.) Many of the prosecutors who put them in jail are now themselves in jail.
- Putin and Erdogan held a conversation shortly before the Russian jet shoot-down in which they agreed to cooperate on Syria, and Erdogan would soften his stance on Assad.
- Erdogan was completely in the dark about the shoot-down. It was ordered unilaterally by Gulenist officers on the military base and designed to sour Russian-Turkish relations.
- Just weeks after the shoot-down, three high-ranking Kemalists - who had previously been in prison due to the trumped up Ergenikon crack-down - flew to Russia to urge a rapprochement with Erdogan, and warn of an American-backed coup.
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