Gulen Movement, who and what is behind it?

COMMENT: In FTR #739, we took a brief look at the pow­er­ful inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tion of the Pennsylvania-based Turk­ish Mus­lim cleric and author Fetul­lah Gulen. Being inves­ti­gated by the FBI and exco­ri­ated by numer­ous sources for Machi­avel­lian gam­bits to destroy polit­i­cal oppo­nents, the orga­ni­za­tion has a sig­nif­i­cant pres­ence in 80 coun­tries, includ­ing spon­sor­ship of char­ter schools here in the United States.
Sus­pi­cions and reser­va­tions about the Gulen orga­ni­za­tion include: fears in Cen­tral Asian republics that the group is Islamist and/or pan-Turkic in nature; con­vic­tions among jour­nal­ists like the estimable Sibel Edmonds and intel­li­gence and mil­i­tary offi­cers in Turkey and else­where that the Gulenists are fronting for CIA agents; that the Gulenist cadre engage as a mat­ter of course in ille­gal acts to destroy their oppo­nents, includ­ing numer­ous inci­dents of forgery and per­jury, as well as libel and propaganda.
In Gulen’s native coun­try of Turkey, the orga­ni­za­tion has become a key ally of the sup­pos­edly “mod­er­ate” Islamist gov­ern­ment of Tayyip Erdo­gan. A sig­nif­i­cant and grow­ing body of doc­u­men­ta­tion sug­gests that the Gulenists have been instru­men­tal in forg­ing evi­dence used by the Erdo­gan gov­ern­ment to stage tri­als of mil­i­tary offi­cers allegdly involved in a coup plot against the government.
(His­tor­i­cally, the mil­i­tary has served as a bul­wark in mod­ern Turkey against Islamiza­tion, pre­serv­ing with the gun the sec­u­lar tra­di­tion estab­lished by Kemal Attaturk fol­low­ing the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. Far from being “mod­er­ate,” the Erdo­gan gov­ern­ment is, as we have seen in FTR #737, derived from the Islam­o­fas­cist al-Taqwa milieu.)
It is worth not­ing that the Erdo­gan government’s “mod­er­ate” Islamist nature is belied by the fact that Turkey cur­rently has more jour­nal­ists in prison than China and Iran com­bined! Hey, that is SOME mod­er­a­tion, no?!
Of even greater sig­nif­i­cance is the fact that the Erdo­gan gov­ern­ment is seen as an appro­pri­ate tem­plate for “mod­er­ate” Islamist regimes cur­rently tak­ing form in places like Egypt, where the clit-cutters of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood are ascen­dant. The Broth­er­hood, of course, was allied with the Axis in World War II and has been used by numer­ous intel­li­gence ser­vices, includ­ing ele­ments of CIA, as a vehi­cle for covert action and repres­sion in the post­war period.
In addi­tion to sup­port­ing Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, ele­ments of CIA have also sup­ported the Pan-Turkist move­ment in the past. Pan-Turkists have also allied his­tor­i­cally with the Third Reich, as we have seen in FTR #720, among other pro­grams

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