Monday, April 14, 2014

Turkey’s Erdogan puts shadowy Gulen movement on centre stage | The National

Turkey’s Erdogan puts shadowy Gulen movement on centre stage

Piotr Zalewski
Foreign Correspondent
April 14, 2014 Updated: April 14, 2014 22:56:00

ISTANBUL // With nearly every one of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speeches, the list of invectives used to describe Turkey’s most powerful Islamic movement keeps growing.

To the prime minister, the group is a “parallel state”, a “state within the state”, a network of “spies”, “traitors”, “leeches”, and “hashashin”, the modern incarnation of medieval Persian assassins.

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