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Book SynopsisIn recent years, a defamation campaign has been launched against Fethullah GÃlen, a moderate Turkish Muslim scholar, and the Hizment Movement he inspired. Dogan Koà analyzes approximately 500 defamation articles, books, and other texts to show these defamations are not random and that they appear according to their respective audiences.
Trade ReviewDogan 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
Table of ContentsCHAPTER 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
