News articles about Fethullah Gulen and the Gulen Movement
Page created June 9, 2010 Last updated Feb 19, 2012
by C.A.S.I.L.I.P.S. - Citizens Against Special Interest Lobbying in Public Schools
Feb 18, 2012
Salem News (Oregon)
"Turkish American Legislative Dialogue and Friendship Dinner"
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february182012/turkish-americans.php
Feb 18, 2012
Wall Street Journal (Europe News)
"Turkey Passes Spy Law"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204880404577230500723705494.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_hpp_sections_world
Feb 17, 2012
Reuters
"Turkish spy row hits Kurdish peace, democratization move" by Daren Butler
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/17/us-turkey-kurds-idUSTRE81G0HT20120217
Jan 11, 2012 ***A MUST-READ***
Foreign Policy - Justin Vela
"Behind Bars in the Deep State: Does a shadowy mullah in Pennsylvania really hold the reins of power in Turkey? If not, then why are the country’s leaders so intent on silencing a single investigative journalist?"
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/node/1135116?page=full
Jan 9, 2012
Turkey Analyst, vol. 5 no. 1 - Gareth H. Jenkins
The changing objects of fear: the arrest of Ilker Basbug
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/turkey/2012/120109A.html
Dec 26, 2011
The National - Thomas Seibert
"Tensions between Turkey's ruling AKP and Gulenics fester"
http://www.thenational.ae/thenational/news/world/europe/tensions-between-turkeys-ruling-akp-and-gulenics-fester
November 24, 2011
Time Magazine - Pelin Turgut
"Is Turkey Using the Courts to Silence Critics?"
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2100227,00.html#ixzz1fpVURKn0
November 23, 2011
Project Syndicate - Dani Rodrik
"Turkey’s Democratic Dusk"
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik64/English
November 22, 2011
Rudaw - Wladimir van Wilgenburg
"Turkey’s Most Powerful Muslim Preacher Scares Kurds"
http://www.rudaw.net/english/news/turkey/4164.html
November 16, 2011
Wall Street Journal Ayla Albayrak
"Jailed Author’s Banned Book Launched"
http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2011/11/16/jailed-author%E2%80%99s-banned-book-launched/?mod=google_news_blog
Nov 8, 2011
Buffalo News - Harold McNeil
"Turkish Cultural Center hosts dinner to promote peace, understanding"
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/downtown/article624316.ece
October 18, 2011
Hurriyet Daily News (English-language Turkish newspaper) Opinion column by Yusuf Kanli
"Tutelage order"
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=tutelage-order-2011-10-18
May 30, 2011
Chicago News Cooperative (New York Times affiliate) David Lepeska
"New Islamic College Connected to Mysterious Turkish Leader"
http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/new-chicago-islamic-college-connected-to-mysterious-turkish-leader/
May 24, 2011
BBC Edward Stourton
"What is Islam's Gulen movement?"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13503361
May 7, 2011
Seattle Times Benjamin Harvey
"Turkish leader accused of power grab"
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014985719_turkeyjournos08.html
May 6, 2011
CNN World Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert
"Turkey press freedom under fire"
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-06/world/turkey.press.freedom_1_turkish-reporters-recep-tayyip-erdogan-world-press-freedom-day?_s=PM:WORLD
April 28 2011
Financial Times Delphine Strauss
"Turkey: Inspiring or insidious"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/650452e8-71c6-11e0-9adf-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1LiBSskCM
April 22, 2011
Arizona Daily Star Tim Steller
"Gulen's counter-offensive against Turkish critics revealed"
http://azstarnet.com/news/blogs/senor-reporter/article_a9229dbe-6d33-11e0-b83b-001cc4c03286.html
April 20, 2011
Der Spiegel Daniel Steinvorth
Turkey's 'Realm of Fear:' A Former Judge Takes on Erdogan's Heavy Hand
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,758101,00.html
April 15, 2011
City Journal Claire Berlinski
"Prisoner of Conspiracy"
http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon0415cb.html
April 15, 2011
CNN Yesim Comert
"Journalists in Turkey decry crackdown on colleagues"
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/04/14/turkey.demonstration/
November 28, 2010
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Andrew Conte, Ali Abaday
"Imam who lives in rural Pennsylvania arouses praise, concerns"
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_711282.html
(An important disclosure that should have been made in this article is that Huseyin Gulerce, who is quoted, is a close friend of Fethullah Gulen's, and is considered the number two man in the Gulen movement according to an article in EurasiaNet.org by Nicholas Birch. Also, Ali Abaday, who contributed to the article, is associated with Taraf, a pro-Gulen newspaper.)
November 10, 2010
The New Republic Suzy Hansen
"The Global Imam"
http://www.tnr.com/article/world/magazine/79062/global-turkey-imam-fethullah-gulen
June 11, 2010
New York Times Brian Knowlton
Turk Who Leads a Movement Has Advocates and Critics
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/us/12iht-gulen.html
June 4, 2010
Wall Street Journal Joe Lauria
“Reclusive Turkish Imam Criticizes Gaza Flotilla”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284721280274694.html
May 27, 2010
Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review, Turkey Eldar Mamedov
“Fethullah Gülen movement - a view from Brussels”
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=fethullah-gulen-movement---a-view-from-brussels-2010-05-27
April 27, 2010
Pocono Record, Pennsylvania Dan Berrett
“Fethullah Gülen remains a radical figure for many Muslims”
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100427/NEWS/4270328
April 26, 2010
Time Magazine, Pelin Turgut
“The Turkish imam and his global educational mission”
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1969290,00.html
March 1, 2010
New York Times Sabrina Tavernise
“Army Ebbs, and Power Realigns in Turkey”
“Many believe that the police and prosecutors have been hijacked by an Islamic network led by Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish preacher who lives in the United States. Nedim Sener, a journalist who has written a book on the network, said the involvement of Mr. Gulen’s followers was an “open secret.””
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/world/europe/02turkey.html?scp=13&sq=fetullah%20gulen&st=cse
Feb 25, 2010
Foreign Policy Soner Cagaptay
“What’s really behind Turkey’s coup arrests: All signs point to Fethullah Gülen, whose shadowy Islamist movement is rapidly extending its tentacles into all aspects of Turkish political life.”
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/25/whats_really_behind_turkeys_coup_arrests
Feb 25, 2010
Die Zeit, Germany Martin Spiewak
“Deutsch-Türkische Privatschule: Die Streber Allahs”
[“German-Turkish private schools: Allah's strivers”]
http://www.zeit.de/2010/08/Deutsch-Tuerkische-Privatschulen
Nov 23, 2009
Beobachter, Switzerland Peter Johannes Meier and Gian Signorell
“Gülen-Bewegung: Privatschulen fur Müslime"
[Gulen Movement: Private schools for Muslims”
http://www.beobachter.ch/justiz-behoerde/auslaender/artikel/guelen-bewegung_privatschulen-fuer-muslime/
Oct 29, 2009
Beobachter, Switzerland Peter Johannes Meier and Gian Signorell
“Gülen-Bewegung: Das Netz der Konservativen”
[Gulen Movement: The network of conservatives”]
http://www.beobachter.ch/justiz-behoerde/artikel/guelen-bewegung_das-netz-der-konservativen/
June 20, 2009
Hürriyet
“Fethullah Gülen’in Amerika’daki evi"
[Fethullah Gulen's house in America"]
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/11906866.asp
May 28, 2009
Tagesspiegel, Germany Claudia Keller, Thomas Seibert
"Moderne Muslime: Mit Mathe auf dem Weg zu Allah"
[Modern Muslims: With math on the way to Allah"
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/deutschland/mit-mathe-auf-dem-weg-zu-allah/1522918.html
May 16, 2009
Newsweek Soner Cagaptay
“Behind Turkey’s Witch Hunt: The Ergenekon case exposes the power of a shadowy Islamic brotherhood that controls the Turkish police”
http://www.newsweek.com/2009/05/15/behind-turkey-s-witch-hunt.html
2009
Qantara Daniel Steinvorth
“The Fethullah Gülen Movement: Pillar of Society or Threat to Democracy?”
http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-907/i.html
July 21, 2008
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) Necla Kelek
“Die Anhänger des Fethullah Gülen" [The followers of Fethullah Gulen"]
http://www.faz.net/s/Rub117C535CDF414415BB243B181B8B60AE/Doc~E1A3BE707300D46218D4EC4B380DD7A10~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html
May 14, 2008
Reuters Alexandra Hudson
Turkish Islamic preacher - threat or benefactor?
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL0939033920080514
Mar 6, 2008
The Economist, England
“Fethullah Gulen: A farm boy on the world stage”
This article cannot be viewed at The Economist website without a subscription; however, it can be read at this Gulenist website:
http://gulenlibrary.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23:fethullah-gulen-a-farm-boy-on-the-world-stage&catid=2:periodicals&Itemid=4
Mar 6, 2008
The Economist, England
“How far they have travelled”
The article cannot be viewed on The Economist website without a subscription, but it can be read here:
http://www.fethullahgulen.org/press-room/news/2852-how-far-they-have-travelled.html
January 8, 2008
New York Times
“TURKEY: Fethullah Gulen profile”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/world/europe/18iht-19oxan-Turkishpreacherprofile.9324128.html
Sep 26, 2007
Tagesspiegel, Germany
"Türkisch ist Pflicht: Ein Kölner Privatgymnasium will Vielfalt fördern. Damit steht es allerdings nicht allein, sondern folgt einem bundesweiten Trend."
[Turkish is mandatory: a Cologne-based private school wants to promote diversity. This is no isolated case; rather, it follows a nationwide trend.]
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/tuerkisch-ist-pflicht/1052268.html
January 5, 2003
New York Times Ilan Greenburg
“When a Kleptocratic, Megalomaniacal Dictator Goes Bad”
“The force promoting political Islam here comes out of Turkey, the country with the closest ties to Turkmenistan. A private group led by a Turkish missionary named Fetullah Gulen has opened 14 ''Turkmen-Turk'' magnet schools in the country. ….. Although the schools are financed with Turkish money and students are taught mostly by Turkish teachers, …. The schools also, very covertly, proselytize their version of militant Islam, which includes advocating the need for Islamic law. ''This is the one radical influence that I know about in Turkmenistan,'' says Shirin Akiner, a lecturer in Central Asian studies at the University of London.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/05/magazine/05TURKMENISTAN.html
Oct 16, 2000
BBC News
“Turkey tries Islamic leader in absentia”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/974911.stm
August 31, 2000
BBC NEWS Pam O'Toole
“Gulen: The face of secular Islam”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/905262.stm
