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Prosecutors investigate his ministers, celebrities leave his party supporters turn away: eroded the power of the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. With his erstwhile allies of the Islamist Gulen Movement conferring it a strong enemy.

Together they have won historic victories, cut the military’s power, defied a coup, assumed many switch positions in business and government, the country rebuilt. Now, after all its triumphs, however, they wound up in a power struggle: the followers of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who rules now authoritarian and autocratic, and the aged preacher Fethullah Gulen, who are themselves liberal, but pursued Islamist goals.

The outcome of this dispute is likely to be felt far beyond Turkey. Even with Erdogan’s critics, the idea took hold that the prime minister will be neither to overthrow the young Gezi protesters nor the secular-nationalist opposition. Long ruled the “Sultan of Ankara” as Erdogan’s critics call him unchallenged. Now, however, it grows with the Gülen movement, a new enemy.

The recent escalation of the conflict shows how far the influence of the Gülen Movement mittlererweile ranges and how dangerous it can be Erdogan. She reveals struggle with what hardball both sides – and that dirty tricks two are not unrelated.

So let prosecutors who are probably attributable to the Gulen Movement, arrested three sons of ministers from Erdogan’s government, allegedly for corruption, as several Turkish newspapers report. Earlier, one of the most prominent members of Erdogan’s AKP had announced to leave the party: Hakan Sukur with, the scorer of the Turkish team wins, the Premier loses a popular audience appeal and trailers. Sükür accuses the AKP expressly “enemy steps” against the Gülen movement before

Erdogan Against Gulen:How far does the power of the religious network ?

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Gulen himself has lived since the late nineties in exile in the United States. Turkey has left the Imam after him accused the prosecutor to prepare an Islamist coup.

His followers have founded schools, media houses, a bank, hospital – in 140 countries around the world, including in Germany. The Turkish ruling AKP party is dominated by two groups: the camp Erdogan and the community Gulen. After the electoral victory of the AKP in 2002 the two factions went into a partnership: Gülen secures vote, Erdogan protects the – partly opaque – Transactions of the municipality of the preacher. Here were two religious groups form a coalition, not two parties.

This coalition is now at the end. “Milliyet” columnist Kadri Gursel speaks of a “nasty, bloody divorce”. The dispute between the two camps smoldered for several months: Erdogan has dismissed key judicial officials and party officials, where proximity to Gülen was assumed their posts. In addition, his government has a reporter of the newspaper “Taraf” appears because the document was published, stating that the intelligence to monitor the Gulen movement. Signatories: Erdogan. The community of the Prime Minister was apparently too powerful.

Gulen himself spoke from his exile in Pennsylvania and criticized Erdogan’s handling of the anti-government protests in the summer. The daily newspaper “Zaman”, Gulen’s most important medium, shoots almost daily against the government and denounces about Erdogan’s “aggressive rhetoric” or “authoritarian occurrence” to.

Last month Erdogan announced finally to suggest the tuition centers of the Gulen movement. The educational institutes prepare students for the entrance test at universities and among the most important sources of income of motion: To visit the two million young Turks. Critics see them as recruitment centers of the movement. The newspaper “Hurriyet” called the closure threat a “declaration of war” of the government to the network.

The Gulen tell them is located on tolerance, on the peaceful coexistence of people. But if someone criticizes the church, it will quickly ugly. In spring 2011, planned by the Turkish journalist Ahmet Sik investigative bring out a book about the power of the network. In “Army of the Imam” he first described how Gulen’s supporters, judiciary and police abuse to intimidate opponents. Shortly before the release Sik was arrested, his publishing house was stormed by security officials confiscated the manuscripts of the book.

In spring 2014 local elections are in Turkey. There are strong indications that it will be the next stage of the power struggle between the self-loving Sultan and the aged preacher.

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