Fethullah Gülen'in 40 Yıllık Serüveni by Hikmet Çetinkaya

Former National Intelligence Organization (MİT) member Kaşif Kozinoğlu’s house was also searched, but he was taken into custody later because he was abroad. On March 3, 2011, in addition to Şık, Ergenekon suspects Professor Yalçın Küçük, journalist Nedim Şener, OdaTV Coordinator Doğan Yurdakul, OdaTV writer İklim Bayraktar, OdaTV writer Müyesser Yıldız, journalist Sait Çakır, OdaTV Ankara representative Mümtaz İdil and Aydın Bıyıklı were taken into custody after their houses were searched.

The party to which Şık’s accusations were directed was now identified as the Gülen movement. Şık shouted “Whoever touches him is doomed” when he was taken into custody shortly after his arrest, his lawyer Bülent Utku made the following comment: “My client informed us that he was arrested because of a book he had recently drafted that he is planning to name ‘İmamın Ordusu,’ depicting how Fethullah Gülen’s movement is entrenched within the state.”

The book Gülen referred to is “İmamın Ordusu” (“The Imam’s Army”), whose draft manuscript was prepared by journalist Ahmet Şık, who has since been arrested in connection with the Ergenekon investigation, and included a compilation of past allegations that the Gülen movement has seized control of the Turkish state. Personally, I have made no appeal or complaint about the said book or its author.” These are the words of Turkish Islamic Scholar Fethullah Gülen. It is also apparent that such attempts would only result in greater interest in the publication one sought to prohibit.

It is clear that it is impossible in this age of information to prevent any publication from reaching readers. The value of the allegations in these books is well known by the public. These books were even part of the case dossier and their contents were included in the indictments. The allegations in these books were no different from the allegations raised in the courts where I was acquitted. 28, 1997 unarmed military intervention, many books, manipulated by certain parties as part of a psychological war against me, have been marketed. “Particularly during the period that started with the Feb. Even books which were identified as illegal by court decisions and whose authors were sentenced to pay compensation have been reprinted.” I only pursued my rights as a citizen by legal means in the face of baseless accusations, slander, and assaults against my individual rights. However, I have never done anything to keep an unprinted book from publication. “A number of things have been published against me dozens of books have been written.

Fethullah Gülen'in 40 Yıllık Serüveni by Hikmet Çetinkaya