Pennsylvania

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu?s 2013 visit to Pennsylvania to see Fethullah Gülen, the self-exiled Turkish preacher, is turning into an amusing ?whodunit?? mystery. Gülen is being vilified by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) for allegedly inciting the graft probes into government ministers and President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s son Bilal.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has joined the debate on whether Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu visited U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen with the permission of former President Abdullah Gül, stating that he personally gave Davuto?lu the go-ahead.

Former Turkish President Abdullah Gül has insisted that he was not informed of a visit of Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, who was foreign minister at the time, to U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen in 2013.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has asserted his version of a visit to U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen in 2013, indirectly contesting former President Abdullah Gül?s version of the story.

Daily Milliyet on April 30 reported the prime minister as saying he had visited Gülen in October 2013 ?with the knowledge of? then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and ex-President Gül.

Former President Abdullah Gül has contradicted Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, stressing that he was not informed before the latter figure visited the U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen in 2013.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said he met with Fethullah Gülen in person in 2013 in the United States to urge him to stop conspiring against his government and to return to Turkey, in a last call to the self-exiled Islamic scholar. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has hinted at new measures against followers of Pennsylvania-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, as he repeatedly described Gülenists in the country as ?a gang of treachery.?

Somebody should remind Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu that the agenda of these upcoming elections is not "parallel, etc." 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has accused a Turkish court of taking orders from U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen to release 75 policemen and a media manager who were accused of planning to overthrow the government.

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