Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Dogan Koç is a research fellow and holds a Ph.D. degree in political science. He studies conflict resolution, international relations, and social movements, particularly the Hizmet Movement.

Reviews

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.
*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*