CHAPTER I: Introduction
CHAPTER 2. Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet Movement
2.1. Biography of Fethullah Gülen
2.2. History of the Hizmet Movement
2.2.1. Islam
2.2.2. Education
2.2.3. Dialogue
2.2.4. Science and Modernity
2.2.5. Politics
CHAPTER 3. Defamation of Gülen in Turkish
3.1.1. American Puppet: Big Middle East Project
3.1.2. Moderate Islam: Pope’s Secret Cardinal
3.1.3. Zionist Connections
3.1.4. Destroying Islam: Gülen is not a Muslim
CHAPTER 4. Defamation of Gülen in English
4.1. Islam’s Trojan Horse: Moderate Islam as Taqiyya
4.2. America’s Khomeini: Same Evil Different Beard
4.3. Overthrowing Turkish Secular Government and Establishing an
Islamic State
4.4. Resurrection of New Ottoman Empire, and Universal
Caliphate
4.5. Infiltration into the United States
4.6. Training Islamist Militia in the United States
CHAPTER 5: Data Analysis
5.1. Data and Coding
5.2. Data Analysis and the Results
CHAPTER 6. Who are they? Analysis of These Groups
6.1. Turkish
6.1.1. Ulusalci Group
Hikmet Cetinkaya: A Career Dedicated to Gülen’s Defamation
Ergun Poyraz: Turkish Defamation Machine
Dogu Perincek (Aydinlik Group)
6.1.2. Radical Islamist Group
Aziz Karaca and the Yeni Mesaj Group
Ahmet Akgul and the Milli Cozum Group
6.2. English
6.2.1. Middle East Forum
6.2.2. The Last Crusade/Paul Williams: A Defamation Machine
6.2.3. Kurdish Aspect: Aland Mizell
6.3. Common Tactics
CHAPTER 7. An Example: Fethullah Gülen’s Grand Ambition:
An Example of Biased, Misleading, Mispresented, and Miscalculated
Article
7.1. Issues Regarding the References in Sharon-Krespin (2009)
7.2. Data Manipulations
7.3. Selective Information
7.4. Contradictions and Ambiguities in Sharon-Krespin (2009)
CHAPTER 8. Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Appendix
Dogan Koç 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.
Dogan Koç’s book ably documents the efforts of [the]
anti-democratic elements of the Turkish establishment, relying on
the country’s weak defamation laws, to conduct a virulent libelous
media campaign to undermine the moderate Islamic scholar Fethullah
Gülen and the Hizmet Movement he has inspired.
*James C. Harrington, human rights attorney, law professor, and
author of Wrestling with Free Speech, Religious Freedom, and
Democracy in Turkey: The Political Trials and Times of Fethullah
Gülen*
Dr. Koç gives us a timely and invaluable study of the social
machinations of contemporary Turkey and its continuing
democratization, especially with respect to how Islam and religious
issues are manipulated by various parties and shadow entities for
political consumption. The analyses of the critiques of the
Gülen/Hizmet (“service”) Movement (GHM), and the motivations behind
the state power stakeholders who generate this criticism, are a
fascinating insight into how little Western readers really know
about the true story of Turkey’s fight for democracy and the
international dynamics that lie behind the Turkish struggle for a
global and humane future.
*Loye B. Ashton, Ph.D., chair, Interdisciplinary Humanities
Department, Tougaloo College*
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