The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli spy agency, MOSSAD, would not harm the Fetullah Terrorists Organization (FETÖ) because of deep ties, the terror leader Fetullah Gülen told his fellowman.
One of the detained FETÖ members, who was responsible for the terror group's Colorado state network, told investigators that their leader had deep relations with the two largest spy agencies in the world.
“Gülen told me that he was not afraid of the CIA and MOSSAD," the detained suspect told investigators on Aug 11.
“We are not afraid of the CIA and MOSSAD. We know [them very well, even] the color of their underwear. The only thing I am afraid of is an internal clash of the Cemaat [FETÖ congregation]," Gülen told the suspect, according to his statement.
Several reports show that the FETÖ terror group, which had staged the deadliest coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, and its U.S.-based leader, Fetullah Gülen, has stablished a worldwide network in support with the CIA and MOSSAD.
The CIA had suggested to the U.S. authority to provide Gülen a green card in America despite his secret, terrorist activities around the world, even in the U.S.
The former CIA chief had voiced being in favor of Gülen many times after the failed coup and stated that he is very willing to make a statement to investigators in favor of Gülen.
A NATO general and a current CIA agent were believed to have helped Gülen's terrorist organization stage the coup in Turkey.
The U.S. authority had repeatedly denied Turkey's request for Gülen's extradition and instead Washington provides extra security for the terror leader.
The Colorado imam [leader] of the terror group told investigators that Gülen led his network in the U.S. by dividing the country into 11 regions.
The FETÖ member said he lived with Gülen for 10 days in order to get special training, as well as secret information from the leader himself.
The suspect said he had been working in several ranks of the organization in the U.S.
According to his statement, Gülen had also divided Turkey into seven states.
Fugitive FETÖ suspect Mustafa Özcan was the leader of these seven regions' imams, he said.
At least 97 FETÖ suspects, 50 of whom are military officers, were detained by Turkey's chief prosecutor's office in recent weeks over the information he provided.
On the other hand, Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's office has been conducting a comprehensive investigation on the coup plot by the FETÖ group.
The office had commissioned seven prosecutors in Istanbul, as it divided the city into three regions to ease the investigation process.
Prosecutors examine the registrations in the National Judiciary Network Project (UYAP) and involve them in the related indictment.
Around 2,500 registrations have been recorded since July 15, and almost half of them were related to the coup attempt, the judiciary sources said.
Meanwhile, prosecutors have examined only 15 percent of the confiscated digital documents related to the FETÖ terror organization.
Security forces had arrested a former TÜBİTAK employee and teacher last week for developing an encrypted message app ByLock, which has been using by the FETÖ members for their internal, secret communication.
He was one of the seven developers of the ByLock app.
Turkish officials have said that the coup plotters developed and used ByLock, a little-known messaging app, to coordinate the conspiracy.
However, Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) began decrypting messages sent on ByLock from May last year, the officials have said.
This enabled authorities in the wake of the coup to identify tens of thousands of FETÖ members, including top-ranking military personnel.
Turkey's authority says at least 150,000 FETÖ members had used the app.
Some detained top level FETÖ members, including the chief of Samanyolu Publishing Group Hidayet Karaca, Ex-Istanbul TEM branch chief Ömer Köse, Ex-Istanbul Intelligence Branch chief Erol Demirhan and ex-Police Commissioner Kazım Aksoy, had also used the secret app.
The Turkish Intelligence agency had decrypted the ByLock and decoded the FETÖ members' discussions.
According to the decoded message, FETÖ leaders ordered to appoint a FETÖ member near the Energy minister and Erdoğan's son-in-law Berat Albayrak for spying on him.
According to investigators, a pro-FETÖ colonel had used a dumbphone in order to not being wiretapped.
Investigators learnt that Former Deputy Commander of the 5th Armored Brigade in Kahramanmaraş Colonel Uzay Şahin, who had been purged from the military after the coup, had borrowed a dumbphone from a telephone seller in the city ten days before the failed coup.
The team who investigated the CCTV footage of the business place found that Şahin sent back the phone to the seller on July 13 via military personnel.
