Fethullah Gülen'in 40 Yıllık Serüveni by Hikmet Çetinkaya

This section may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. Gülen has been described in the English-language media as an imam 'who promotes a tolerant Islam which emphasises altruism, hard work and education' and as 'one of the world's most important Muslim figures.' Gülen is wanted as a terrorist leader in Turkey and Pakistan, as well as by the OIC and GCC. government officials do not believe he is associated with any terrorist activity, and have requested evidence to be provided by the Turkish Government to substantiate the allegations in the warrant requesting extradition, frequently rejecting Turkish calls for his extradition. A Turkish criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for Gülen in 2016, and Turkey is demanding his extradition from the United States. Turkish prosecutors accuse Gülen of attempts to overthrow the government by allegedly directing politically motivated corruption investigations by Gülen-linked investigators then in the judiciary, who illegally wiretapped the executive office of the Turkish president, and Gülen's alleged instigations of the 2016 coup attempt. This political alliance worked together to weaken left-of-center Kemalist factions, but fractured in 2011. In 2003, a number of Gülen movement participants allied with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's centre-right Justice and Development Party (AKP), providing the AKP political and sorely-needed administrative support. Gülen says his social criticisms are focused upon individuals' faith and morality and a lesser extent toward political ends and self describes as rejecting an Islamist political philosophy, advocating instead for full participation within professions, society, and political life by religious and secular individuals who profess high moral or ethical principles and who wholly support secular rule, within Muslim-majority countries and elsewhere. Since 1999, Gülen has lived in self-exile in the United States near Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. Over the years, Gülen became a centrist political figure in Turkey prior to his being there as a fugitive.

Gülen was a local state imam from 1959 to 1981, and he was a citizen of Turkey until his 2017 denaturalization by the government. Gülen is designated an influential neo-Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Islamic poet, writer, social critic, and activist– dissident developing a Nursian theological perspective that embraces democratic modernity. Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (born 27 April 1941) is a Turkish Islamic scholar, preacher, and a one-time opinion leader, as de facto leader of the Gülen movement. Rumi, Yunus Emre, Ibn Arabi, Al-Ghazali, Said Nursî

Fethullah Gülen'in 40 Yıllık Serüveni by Hikmet Çetinkaya