Strategic Defamation of Fethullah Gülen English vs. Turkish

by Koç, Dogan

• ISBN13: 9780761859307
• ISBN10: 0761859306
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-06
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Fethullah Gülen is a moderate Turkish Muslim scholar who is known mostly for his education and dialogue activities. The Hizmet Movement, inspired by Gülen, has established hundreds of education and dialogue institutions throughout the world. Several books and hundreds of articles and news reports have been written about Gülen himself and the movement. In recent years, a defamation campaign has been launched against Gülen and the Hizmet Movement. Although these defamation articles may seem random, this book will show that the articles are written strategically in a campaign manner. In Strategic Defamation of Fethullah Gülen, close to 500 defamation articles, books, and other forms of writings are analyzed according to their languages. Koç concludes that these defamations are not random and that they appear according to their respective audiences.

Author Biography

Dogan Ko is a research fellow and holds a Ph.D. degree in political science. He studies conflict resolution, international relations, and social movements, particularly the Hizmet Movement.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet Movement	p. 3
Biography of Fethullah Gülen	p. 3
History of the Hizmet Movement	p. 5
Islam	p. 7
Education	p. 8
Dialogue	p. 10
Science and Modernity	p. 11
Politics	p. 13
Defamation of Gülen in Turkish	p. 17
American Puppet: Big Middle East Project	p. 17
Moderate Islam: Pope's Secret Cardinal	p. 19
Zionist Connections	p. 20
Destroying Islam: Gülen is not a Muslim	p. 20
Defamation of Gülen in English	p. 23
Islam's Trojan Horse: Moderate Islam as Taqiyya	p. 23
America's Khomeini: Same Evil Different Beard	p. 24
Overthrowing Turkish Secular Government and Establishing an Islamic State	p. 25
Resurrection of New Ottoman Empire, and Universal Caliphate	p. 26
Infiltration into the United States	p. 27
Training Islamist Militia in the United States	p. 28
Data Analysis	p. 31
Data and Coding	p. 31
Data Analysis and the Results	p. 32
Who are they? Analysis of These Groups	p. 37
Turkish	p. 37
Ulusalci Group	p. 40
Hikmet Cetinkaya: A Career Dedicated to Gülen's Defamation	p. 40
Ergun Poyraz: Turkish Defamation Machine	p. 41
Dogu Perincek (Aydinlik Group)	p. 42
Radical Islamist Group	p. 43
Aziz Karaca and the Yeni Mesaj Group	p. 43
Ahmet Akgul and the Milli Cozum Group	p. 45
English	p. 46
Middle East Forum	p. 47
The Last Crusade/Paul Williams: A Defamation Machine	p. 50
Kurdish Aspect: Aland Mizell	p. 52
Common Tactics	p. 54
An Example: Fethullah Gülen's Grand Ambition: An Example of Biased, Misleading, Mispresented, and Miscalculated Article	p. 57
Issues Regarding the References in Sharon-Krespin (2009)	p. 60
Data Manipulations	p. 62
Selective Information	p. 67
Contradictions and Ambiguities in Sharon-Krespin (2009)	p. 69
Concluding Remarks	p. 71
Bibliography	p. 75
Appendix	p. 85
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