Soner Çağaptay of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy recently published yet another controversial piece in Newsweek magazine that appears to be seriously distorting the reality regarding the ongoing “Ergenekon” court case in Turkey and targeting the faith-based civil society movement inspired by Fethullah Gülen by alleging that it is controlling the Turkish police.
In his piece, titled “Behind Turkey's Witch Hunt: The Ergenekon case exposes the power of a shadowy Islamic brotherhood that controls the Turkish police,” Çağaptay alleges that the current Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government is using the Ergenekon court case to suppress its opponents and that the so-called Gülen movement manipulates the Turkish police force to assist the government.
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