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First, the AKP began a cleaning process with the media, starting
with Cem Uzan, then they confiscated
all the companies from big media bosses. This process ended by
driving the Dogan Media Company to
the edge by punishing them with a 5.9 billion dollar tax fine.
All of those confiscated companies have
now been sold to the business men who are connected to the Gulen
Movement.
Following those incidents, many scholars, men of science, and
military personnel have been thrown injail due to the laws and
regulations that are passed from the National Assembly in the
middle of the
night, and they are forced to deal with thousands of pages of
cases; the only common thing among
those people arrested is that all of them are opposed to the AKP
and cults.
These processes have been applied by those cult members who have
gained positions in the legal
system. As a result of owning all the big media companies in the
country, they propagandize their
thoughts and all the incidents that take place in the country
are being announced to the world as
democratization movements. They use every opportunity to
underline that the AKP gives great
importance to the EU accession process and reforms.
Cult influence on the AKP government showcases its results in
Turkeys changing foreign policy. Turkey
began a campaign of attacks on Israel in every area; even at the
Ministerial level. The ousting of the
Israeli National Basketball Team from the Efes World Cup, the
recanted invitation of Israel to participate
in a joint military practice and the famous one minute incident
at Davosare just a couple of examples.
The Gulen cult has also begun a boycott campaign against Israeli
products and they strongly oppose
those products in areas that they are powerful in. Israel is
accused of killing innocent people by Gulen
scholars and it is being held responsible for every trouble
occurring in Turkey through the movements
personal TV series; for example, they show the Israelis as the
cause for the failure of the Kurdish
opening.
U.S. Support to the Gulen movement: Does the U.S. Miscalculate
Them?
Everyone knows the strong alliance between Israel and the United
States, but despite this alliance, some
people might be surprised by the support given to the Gulen
movement by the United States. After
being sued and accused of trying to build a crime organization
to destroy the states secular structure in
Turkey with his movement, Fethullah Gulen moved to the United
States, and when he applied for the
green card, some CIA officers, including Graham Fuller, gave him
reference letters for his application.
These events show just how much support the United States gives
to the Gulen movement.
The reason for this support is the U.S. efforts to diffuse the
Middle East and Caucasus via Gulens
moderate Islamic policy and to then exert control of these
regions. This policy leans on the idea that cult
movements are less harmful than terrorist organizations, and if
you use them in the right way, they can
even be useful. When we look at Turkeysexample, while terrorist
organizations would not be able to
succeed in taking charge of a country, the Gulen Movement could
succeed in doing so and in a short
time period as well, and then they can continue their
dissemination.
In addition, Irans rejection of Gulen schools, and the closing
of 16 Gulen schools in Russia and the final
closure of 4 faculties in Iraq on December 30, 2009, shows that
this movement does not have heavy
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weight in countries outside of Turkey and African countries.
Following these facts, the United States
should stop giving support to this movement and start the
elimination process of this organization; the
Gulen Movement tries to build the same structure in the United
States by opening several schools and it
could soon begin to exert more influence there as well.
Investigations in Utah on the movements
dealings could be interpreted that the United States is finally
beginning to see them as a threat too.
It is Impossible to View the Picture Optimistically
Radical Islam could have succeeded in gaining control of the
world by its former methods before, but
this time, its method is quite different from others and much
more dangerous of course. While the
complete capture of Turkey is standing in front of us, it is
impossible to approach the problem in an
optimistic way. The Gulen Movement is trying what other Islamic
organizations have failed to do, it wins
the hearts and minds of people through good deeds and education,
and that is proving to be just as
dangerous as a ticking time bomb.
01.01.2010
Burhan Dogus Ayparlar
