Psychopath in Action: Doctor fired after warning of cancer risk

A doctor was fired from a state hospital after holding a press conference on the risk of developing cancer from eating rice that was cultivated with water from the Ergene River in the northwestern province of Edirne.

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Internal medicine and gastroenterology specialist Dilek Tucer held a press conference on Sept. 9 and warned that consuming rice grown in the water of the Ergene River can lead to cancer due to the water's contamination with radioactivity as a result of the April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.
Dr. Tucer explained: “In Thrace, it is not just plants but other products we eat also that have great carcinogenic effects due to the waters of the Ergene River. This is a very important issue for Thrace, especially for rice production. Rice is one of the leading products of the region and is distributed nearly everywhere across Turkey. How and where a plant is grown is very important, and I have seen this especially with regard to the Ergene River, a site where they have begun organic farming. We have seen an increase in gastroenterological, colon and stomach cancer in recent years in Thrace. Of course, the Ergene River has a role in this.”
After the press conference, Edirne Governor Dursun Ali Şahin ordered that Dr. Tucer, who was the only gastroenterology specialist with the Edirne Association of Public Hospitals, be investigated and removed from her position at Edirne State Hospital.
Governor Şahin said: “We have removed the doctor from her position, but not because she said the consumption of rice can lead to cancer. Where is the scientific evidence for this? We have dismissed her because she haphazardly provided information to the press. We removed her from her position because she acted on her own, making public statements without permission. We have begun looking into this subject and inspectors from the ministry will continue to work on it.”

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Gülen’s cemaat is by far the strongest Nurcu group in Turkey, described by many as Turkey’s third power, alongside Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian Justice and Development Party (known as the AKP, its initials in Turkish) and the military. The structure and organization of the cemaat are a subject of controversy. Members tend to be evasive not only about their relationship to Gülen but about the very existence of the cemaat;

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Gülen’s detractors, however, inevitably point to a speech to the followers of his that surfaced in a video in 1999 :

"You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers. . . . Until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this. If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in] Syria, . . . like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt. . . . The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it. . . . You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey . . . . Now, I have expressed my feelings and thoughts to you all—in confidence . . . trusting your loyalty and secrecy. I know that when you leave here, [just] as you discard your empty juice boxes, you must discard the thoughts and the feelings that I expressed here."

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Now to America. Gülen lives in the United States, and he has received praise and support from high-level figures in the American government. Bill Clinton and James Baker have delivered encomiums to his contributions to world peace, for instance, and President Obama has made an admiring visit to the Gülen-inspired Pinnacle School in Washington, D.C. Former CIA officer Graham Fuller—also former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council and the author of The Future of Political Islam—vouched for Gülen personally in his green-card application process, as did former CIA officer George Fidas and former ambassador to Turkey Morton Abramowitz.

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