Three quotes from Gulen's close ally, Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey

Our previous page on Gulen and the AKP explained the tight connection between Fethullah Gulen, his movement, and Turkey's ruling AKP party.

The current prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is a friend of Gulen's, as is Turkey's current president, Abdullah Gul.  Indeed, Gul met with some students from US Gulen charter schools while they were in Turkey for the Turkish Language Olympics.

Here are three quotes of Erdogan from when he was mayor of Istanbul:

"Thank God, I am for Sharia."

"One cannot be a secularist and a Muslim at the same time."

"for us, democracy is a means to an end."

Source:  Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey, by Hakan Yavuz.  Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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