• political conflict between the AKP-ruled Turkish government and the Gülen movement of Fethullah Gülen began in 2013. With similarities in ideology, the AKP and...
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  • The Gülen movement or Hizmet movement (Turkish: Gülen hareketi / Hizmet hareketi) is an Islamist fraternal movement. It is a sub-sect of Sunni Islam based...
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    Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (27 April 1941 – 20 October 2024) was a Turkish Muslim scholar, preacher, and leader of the Gülen movement who as of 2016 had...
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    2016 Turkish coup attempt (category Conflicts in 2016)
    were linked to the Gülen movement, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the Republic of Turkey and led by Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish businessman...
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    irregularities and were condemned as a joint attempt by Erdoğan and Gülen to curb opposition to the AKP. The original Sledgehammer document containing the coup plans...
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  • connected with the Gülen movement, an opposition group which the government blamed for the coup. Possession of books authored by Gülen was considered valid...
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    Turkish AKP government fell out with Fethullah Gülen in late 2013, Davutoğlu was able to find further common ground with Russia, which viewed Gülen and his...
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  • national truce while the Turkish purges targeted alleged members of the Gülen movement. From September 2016, the Turkish judiciary started to submit HDP elected...
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  • against left-wing Turks, Kurdish critics of President Erdoğan and the Gülen movement. Their activities are attributed to organized crime. According to Bundestag...
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  • (AKP) won back the absolute majority in parliament: 317 of the 550 seats. CHP won 134 seats, HDP 59 seats, MHP 40 seats. Since 2013, in the conflict between...
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    Bank Asya, a pro-Gülen bank that the AKP government attempted to shut down in 2014 and also applied to visit the head of the pro-Gülen Samanyolu TV in...
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  • was replaced by members/supporters of the AK Party and the Islamic Gülen movement. On 25 April 2016, the Turkish Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman told...
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    [the Gülen movement] should be structured in the bureaucracy". Questioned about Gülen's statement later on, Prime Minister Ecevit defended Gülen in an interview...
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  • Turkish journalist Ahmet Şık on the life and work of Fethullah Gülen and his Gülen movement. Şık was detained in March 2011, before the book was published...
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  • On 31 May 2021, the MIT arrested in Kenya Selahaddin Gülen, who is a nephew of Fetullah Gülen, and brought him to Turkey. In August 2019, a report was...
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  • Party (AKP), the Gulen movement's Today's Zaman turned into an ardent critic of the ruling AKP. To balance the critical discourse against the AKP by Today's...
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    Development Party (AKP) interim government. Bianet's final 2015 monitoring report confirmed this trend and underlined that, once the AKP had regained a majority...
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    Prime Minister and Fethullah Gülen. Gülen, who lives in the U.S., leads a religious movement that had supported the AKP's rise to power. In late 2013,...
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  • Cambridge University Press, 2009). Toward and Islamic Enlightenment: The Gülen Movement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). Yavuz is co-editor of a three-volume...
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    Holding, known for its close relations with the Gülen Movement with which the AKP has been in political conflict since 2013. TV channels Kanaltürk and Bugün...
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    the AKP won back the absolute majority in parliament: 317 of the 550 seats. CHP won 134 seats, HDP 59 seats, MHP 40 seats. Since 2013, in the conflict between...
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    criticised for not opposing an AKP MP who claimed that 'everything would be alright if the Parallel state (Gülen Movement) reverted to its factory values...
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  • Washington Post. 1 June 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016. "US: We See Neither Gülen Movement nor YPG as Terror Organization". Bianet - Bagimsiz Iletisim Agi. Retrieved...
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    who was strongly backed by Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), signs of strained relations rose between the newly appointed interim government...
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  • outlets known to be close to the Gülen Movement such as Kanaltürk and Bugün TV. Safety concerns due to the escalating conflict resulted in the government proposing...
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    minister by the AKP despite being a writer for the newspaper Today's Zaman, widely considered to be sympathetic to the Gülen Movement founded and led...
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    (mufti) Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish Islamic preacher based in the United States. The conflict between the Turkish government the Gülen movement is a major Turkey–United...
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    not to support the organizations, and to extradite members of the Gülen movement and PKK from the two member states. In May 2022, Turkey quickly blocked...
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    heretical by the Wahhabi leader at the time. The leader of the Gulen movement, Fethullah Gülen accuses Arabs of conspiring against the Ottoman Empire as well...
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    Gülenist Hizmet movement organization that the government says was behind the coup attempt. Counter-demonstrations have been held by AKP supporters. Police...
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