March 26, 2012

Fethullah Gulen and February 28 [Postmodern coup]

Nazlı Ilıcak

While February 28th is debated these days, a notion has been created as if Gulen was collaborating with "post-modern coup." In fact, Gulen in his interview on Channel-D on April 17,1997 asked Refahyol government to resign. However, these words were spoken in order to reduce the tension in the country. His opinion could have been faulty at the time, but one cannot make a conclusion about his position in general based on this statement.