"Powerful Turkish fellowship threads careful path
Sunday, January 16, 2005
For certain secular-minded Turks, they believe in their bones that religion is backward and holds back society. Gulen is seen as offering a way to merge the two, says expert on Islam
BRIAN MURPHY
ISTANBUL - Associated Press
There doesn't seem to be much separating the politics of secular Turkey's leaders and an Islamic-oriented movement built around a preacher, author and mystic scholar named Fethullah Gulen. Both promote Western-style enterprise and education. They denounce Muslim radicals and agree on Turkey's main goal: European Union membership. So why has Gulen moved into self-exile in the United States after facing charges of seeking an Islamic-style regime in his homeland?"
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