February 16, 2012

Sabotage: Government - Gülen movement relations

Hüseyin Gülerce

We are facing a new situation that we are all trying to understand. First, the summoning of the undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), Hakan Fidan, and several other MİT administrators to testify as suspects has turned into an unprecedented and serious problem. Those waiting in the wings encouraged a debate that started as a “conflict between the judiciary and MİT” to the point of it becoming a “conflict between the Gülen movement and the government” in which the “main target was the prime minister.”

PM’s aide dismisses rift between AK Party and Gülen movement

Today's Zaman
Yalçın Akdoğan

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's former chief advisor and Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy Yalçın Akdoğan dismissed allegations of tension between the AK Party government and the faith-based Gülen movement in his article in the Yeni Şafak daily on Wednesday.