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Turkey’s Secretive Gulen Movement Challenges its Prime Minister as Religious Right Splits

contributors 01/01/2014

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(By Alexander Christie-Miller)

The Gulen movement: a self-exiled imam challenges Turkey’s Erdogan (via The Christian Science Monitor)

The man some see as the architect of a political storm threatening to topple Turkey’s government lives 5,000 miles away in rural Pennsylvania. Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim preacher born in 1941 near the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum, heads one of the…

 

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