Is there a chance for the nationalization of the Gülen Movement?
The great powers aspire to occupy a geography with which they are concerned by putting forward a global vision, the geography has already been under their cultural siege. Cultural occupation - whose vanguards were once the U.K. and France, and then the U.S. - in general precedes its military counterpart.The majority of the countries of the world have experienced this dark legacy from the British colonial system. In retrospect, even only in the Ottoman geography, it is possible to mention thousands of foreign schools, hospitals and volunteer missionaries of the church. Apart from the realms of education, health and culture, these institutions constituted the soft power of the British colonial empire by serving as the empire's outposts.Although those Western institutions are global in terms of organization, each one of them serves for the interest of their own nation-state in terms of allegiance.While Fetullah Gülen was introducing his movement's newly established international schools, he stated by referring to the previous century that "today we are doing the same thing to the West that they did to us in the past." Such discourse that seemed to excite the Anatolian people at first glance has increased its persuasiveness through the performance of foreign students who were selected from those schools to read Turkish poems and songs on stage for the Turkish audience. Thus, those schools seemed to constitute the future of Turkey and radiate hope for the country's future.But that structure, which terrorized the people through the power that it acquired within the state, followed in the judicial realm with polices of fabricating crimes and evidence and campaigns to discredit those people outside of its community or who stand against its interests.It could not be a coincidence that such discriminatory and divisive policies constitute one of the fundamental features of coup d'états.Efforts for putting the secretary of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) under arrest, the attempted coup of Dec.17 and the succeeding in the publishing of illegal wiretappings created a controversy for the structure's real international connections and allegiances.The financial power of the Gülen Movement stems largely from the donations that they took from the Anatolian people. Political parties, foundations and associations belong substantially to the public while the executives are their periodical representatives.In my opinion, the structure that gathers all of its human and economic resources from Anatolia handed over its governance to other actors. In comparison, could the German government, for instance, come to agree with the Adenaur foundation's working for the interests of another country? In the U.S., which holds half the world's material wealth, taking more than $10,000 out of the country is subject to rigid procedures.States are, by their very nature, jealous creatures in terms of their human and material resources. In this respect, if its every molecule belongs to the Anatolian people, the material existence of the Gülen Movement abroad or its prospective dissolution is equivalent to a loss for Turkey.In my own view, the genetics of the community is still not corrupt, as it involves people who in their hearts would still like to work for their country. Those people could certainly take the center of the community onto Turkey by breaking its connections with the U.S. By openly expressing their intentions, which are still being kept secret, they could regain the trust of the Turkish society. Otherwise, millions of dollars of this nation will continue to flow from Anatolia to the U.S. and no output will return to the country.Grinding out for decades the smartest children of this country within the system like a mill, we are facing an extraordinary situation that prevents the raising of firstclass citizens and turns the smartest people into imbeciles.
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