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Strategic Defamation of Fethullah Gülen: English vs. Turkish
Author(s): Dogan Koc (Author)
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication Date: 6 July 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 144 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780761859307
- ISBN-13: 0761859306
Book Description
In recent years, a defamation campaign has been launched against Fethullah Gülen, a moderate Turkish Muslim scholar, and the Hizment Movement he inspired. Dogan Koç analyzes approximately 500 defamation articles, books, and other texts to show these defamations are not random and that they appear according to their respective audiences.
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Review
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.
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.
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.
