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Gulenist movement principles are not against capitalism. The Turkish Islamists oppose their country’s secularism but are for the American version of it as they argue that the American model guarantees religious freedom for citizens with different religions. The Gulenists describe their movemen ...
Gulenists
An initiative was launched in Ankara last week to encourage Turkish student volunteers to engage in aid and development projects in 18 African countries.
A sign of the importance the government places on increasing its presence in Africa was visible from those attending the event. They i ...
Gulenist Movement, whose leader Fethullah Gulen was blamed by Erdogan as the mastermind of the coup, as a terrorist group.
But Turkey strongly condemned the November terrorist attacks that struck Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and was claimed by ISIS terrorist group. The Turkish president announced ...
Gulenist movement which Ankara blames for orchestrating the July 2016 failed military coup.
Since the attempted power grab, the two sides engaged in a range of diplomatic spats. Their embassies, for example, stopped issuing visas last year. Ankara also arrested the US embassy’s personnel on s ...
Gulenist movement which Ankara blames for orchestrating the July 2016 failed military coup.
Since the attempted power grab, the two sides engaged in a range of diplomatic spats. Their embassies, for example, stopped issuing visas last year. Ankara also arrested the US embassy’s personnel on s ...
Gulenists.
During the 2016 botched putsch, a faction of the Turkish military declared that it had seized control of the country and the government of Erdogan was no more in charge. The attempt was, however, suppressed a few hours later.
Ankara has since accused Gulen of having orchestrat ...
Gulenists as a top home threat to his rule.
Erdogan labeled the Gulenist movement a terrorist entity conspiring against the state. He is now afraid of possible penetration of the Azerbaijan politics and society by the Gulenists and even worse assumption of the rule in Baku. This runs counter ...
Gulenist Movement, named after the US-based Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen who is accused of orchestrating the 2016 failed coup against Erdogan, without concerns about Washington reactions. But under Biden, such massive arrests and crackdowns on the opposition may draw a serious response from the ...
Gulenists will stir more tensions between the two sides.
Erdogan and fears of Gulen influence on elections
The tensions between the Biden administration and Ankara can be described as an outcome of the AKP's worries about the home situation. In the past three years, Turkey went thr ...
Gulenists]? First of all, Greece does. They flee to Greece, they flee to Europe. They always do. They live in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Britain, and the America. America hides this man. Who is hiding him? Biden is hiding him. They gave him in Pennsylvania a mansion.”
The Turkish ...