Six month after Hungarian President Viktor Orban succeeded in driving his former mentor, and current neemsis George Soros out of Hungary, the Hungarian-born billionaire financier and his "Open Society" Foundation that has financed an army of liberal NGOs across Europe and the US has been driven out of yet another country.
According to the Guardian, Soros' Open Society Foundation is formally withdrawing from Turkey after the founder of its Turkey organization was arrested and charged with supporting an opposition figure accused of trying to overthrow the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Kavala has been accused of supporting terrorism within Turkey, and Open Society has been accused of supporting Kavala.
Though it denied links to the protests, Open Society told the Guardian that it would nevertheless seek to close its office in Istanbul and liquidate its Turkish operations as swiftly as possible.
According to the New York Times, a representative for Open Society said maintaining the organization's operations in Istanbul had become "Completely untenable."
"We are deeply dismayed and disappointed that the foundation had to close," an Open Society spokeswoman, Laura Silber, said on Monday.
Open Society purports to support "Justice and human rights" in more than 100 countries; but in more recent years, it has primarily focused on Soros' liberal agenda of open borders and free trade while resisting the wave of populist sentiment that has swept across Europe and the US..
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-27/soros-open-society-driven-out-turkey-amid-probe-terrorism-ties
According to the Guardian, Soros' Open Society Foundation is formally withdrawing from Turkey after the founder of its Turkey organization was arrested and charged with supporting an opposition figure accused of trying to overthrow the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Kavala has been accused of supporting terrorism within Turkey, and Open Society has been accused of supporting Kavala.
Though it denied links to the protests, Open Society told the Guardian that it would nevertheless seek to close its office in Istanbul and liquidate its Turkish operations as swiftly as possible.
According to the New York Times, a representative for Open Society said maintaining the organization's operations in Istanbul had become "Completely untenable."
"We are deeply dismayed and disappointed that the foundation had to close," an Open Society spokeswoman, Laura Silber, said on Monday.
Open Society purports to support "Justice and human rights" in more than 100 countries; but in more recent years, it has primarily focused on Soros' liberal agenda of open borders and free trade while resisting the wave of populist sentiment that has swept across Europe and the US..
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-27/soros-open-society-driven-out-turkey-amid-probe-terrorism-ties
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