Among Turkish Islamists, a messy divorce
Ilhan Tanir| The Daily Star
The two most influential Islamic groups in Turkey – namely the Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Gulen movement led by the Pennsylvania-based Fethullah Gulen – have been openly at war with each other for over a year. The Gulen movement, a former Islamic ally of the AKP, has tended to eschew partisan politics in favor of media and cultural influence within Turkey, yet it has become the target of Erdogan’s “with us or against us” rhetoric and governance style.
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