{"id":824892,"date":"2026-04-17T09:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=824892"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:53:27","slug":"silence-about-terrorist-origination-fethullah-gulen-foot-soldiers-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2026\/04\/17\/silence-about-terrorist-origination-fethullah-gulen-foot-soldiers-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence about\u00a0 terrorist origination Fethullah Gulen foot Soldiers in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York&nbsp; Turkish Consul General Ahmet Yazal&nbsp; \/ Silence about&nbsp; terrorist origination Fethullah Gulen foot Soldiers in New York&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the appointment of Consul General Ahmet Yazal, there has been little visible public response or outreach regarding activities in New York involving individuals believed to be linked to&nbsp;&nbsp;the terrorist origination&nbsp;Fethullah Gulen and their engagement with various NGOs.&nbsp;This silence is raising questions as many in community&nbsp; are wondering whether enough attention is being given to the issue in New York by Consul General Ahmet Yazal about the terrorist origination , and whether Turkish interests are being actively represented and protected, especially considering the responsibility to the Turkish public. Yazal is just collecting his $12,000 salary and waiting for his retirement and walking his two dogs. (picture attached)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Respectfully,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ibrahim Kurtulus<br>Staten Island, New York\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"921\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ahmet-yazal-fethullah-gulen-consulate-new-york-921x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-824893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ahmet-yazal-fethullah-gulen-consulate-new-york-921x1024.jpg 921w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ahmet-yazal-fethullah-gulen-consulate-new-york-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ahmet-yazal-fethullah-gulen-consulate-new-york-768x854.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ahmet-yazal-fethullah-gulen-consulate-new-york.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 921px) 100vw, 921px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York&nbsp; Turkish Consul General Ahmet Yazal&nbsp; \/ Silence about&nbsp; terrorist origination Fethullah Gulen foot Soldiers in New York&nbsp;&nbsp; Since the appointment of Consul General Ahmet Yazal, there has been little visible public response or outreach regarding activities in New York involving individuals believed to be linked to&nbsp;&nbsp;the terrorist origination&nbsp;Fethullah Gulen and their engagement with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":824893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11047],"tags":[11019,9229,2463],"class_list":["post-824892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ibrahim-kurtulus","tag-ahmet-yazal","tag-fethullah-gulen","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}