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To: jobim

Gulen was a supporter of Erdogan from the get go... when Erdogan was clearly an islamist.
Their break, if there is one and it’s not just for show, was over ethical purity- or Erdogan’s family’s lack of it.
So I am not so sure Gulen is really a moderate. He seemed fine with Erdogan’s turn away from secularism, only getting weary of him when Erdogan’s son got caught in some financial fraud scheme. Remember that the word’s press considers Hamas to be moderate because they are the political wing rather than the military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.


32 posted on 07/17/2016 4:33:45 PM PDT by piasa
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To: piasa
Granted that Gulen is not a friend to the West, but do you find it
plausible that Erdogan fashions Gulen as public enemy #1 as Hitler
did with the communists in 1933? And do you think we should
extradite him to Turkey?
35 posted on 07/17/2016 4:40:46 PM PDT by jobim
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