Those who rushed to analyze and take stances on the coup in Turkey, now have a second chance to reconsider the situation. It was neither the army as an integral institution that attempted a coup against elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, nor the secular opposition.
The attempted coup was carried out by Fethullah Gulen’s Islamic movement, or the “parallel structure,” as Erdogan calls it and accuses the group of trying to seize control of the country. This group is similar in its form, message and organizational structure to the Muslim Brotherhood, even though it is not related to it.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/958681/columns
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In 2012, I had the opportunity to e
xperience first
-hand the mix of
sophisticated influence operation and Islamic supremacism guised as Turkish
nationalism that is practiced by the so
-called Gulen Movement (GM). This
organization has properly been described as a Muslim cult of personality.
It is
inspired and led by an expatriate Turk, Fethullah Gulen, who operates his multi-
billion international education and business empire from an armed camp in
Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains.
Three years ago, a group dominated by Gulenists sought to est
ablish a
publicly supported charter high school focusing on science, technology, engineering
and math (STEM) in Virginia’s Loudoun County. Their controversial and deeply
problematic proposal caused me and many other residents to become knowledgeable
about
Gulen’s program and the more than 140 of his schools operating as of now
across America
– with a thousand more in Turkey and elsewhere around the world.
Happily, in the end, faced with the intense and informed opposition of many
Loudoun citizens and a cha
rter school application with myriad flaws, the school board
declined to approve the Loudoun County Math and I
nformation Technology
Academy.
That close encounter with a movement that has been infiltrating the U.S.
school system and influencing our elected officials for many years not only illuminated
for us at the Center for Security Policy the scope and import of the Gulen’s
operations in America. It also made plain the need to raise awareness among
educators, school boards and administrators, students and
their families and
legislators about this little
-known Turkish and Islamic supremacist cult and its
reclusive leader, Fethullah Gulen.
https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Gulen_Final.pdf
Not sure if Gulen is a whitehat, seems to be otherwise
sorry the post above sucks about Gulen
i copied if from the pdf link and it seemed ok in the reply box, my mistake
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-turkey-lets-trade-gulenists-muslim-brotherhood-members-1065113007
ISTANBUL, Turkey – The UAE has offered Turkey a deal where it is willing to hand over Gulenists to Ankara in return for members of the Muslim Brotherhood, according to a Turkish journalist.
According to Kenan Akin, a columnist at the Turkish newspaper Yenicag, a senior Emirati official told him they didn't even have a problem with a Turkish military base in Qatar as long as Ankara was willing to return nine UAE citizens who are members of the Muslim Brotherhood and are resident in Turkey.
wonder if someone can find what party they are donating to
Here in the United States, meanwhile, GĂĽlen's allies have been stepping up their involvement in U.S. politics, emerging as a force in districts from South Texas to South Brooklyn. Liberal Democrats like Yvette Clarke, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Al Green, and conservative Republicans like Ted Poe and Pete Olson have all benefitted from donors affiliated with GĂĽlen in one way or another.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/secretive-turkish-movement-buys-us-influence
http://www.educationviews.org/hillary-clinton-received-donations-gulenists/
Members of a secretive Turkish Islamic movement that is at the center of a congressional ethics committee investigation have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and to her family’s charity, a Daily Caller investigation has found.
The largest donation from a leader of the Gulen movement, which is operated from Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains by a moderate Muslim cleric named Fethullah Gulen, came from Recep Ozkan.
is she a man too?