Strategic Defamation of Fethullah Gülen

English vs. Turkish

By (author) Dogan Koç

Publication date:

06 July 2012

Length of book:

144 pages

Publisher

University Press of America

Dimensions:

228x152mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780761859307

Fethullah Gülen is a moderate Turkish Muslim scholar who is known mostly for his education and dialogue activities. The Hizmet Movement, inspired by Gülen, has established hundreds of education and dialogue institutions throughout the world. Several books and hundreds of articles and news reports have been written about Gülen himself and the movement. In recent years, a defamation campaign has been launched against Gülen and the Hizmet Movement. Although these defamation articles may seem random, this book will show that the articles are written strategically in a campaign manner. In Strategic Defamation of Fethullah Gülen, close to 500 defamation articles, books, and other forms of writings are analyzed according to their languages. Koç concludes that these defamations are not random and that they appear according to their respective audiences.

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’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.