Strategic defamation of Fethullah Gülen : English vs. Turkish / Doğan Koç.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koç, Doğan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libel and slander--Turkey.

Libel and slander.

English language.

Turkish language.

Gülen, Fethullah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, Inc., c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, a defamation campaign has been launched against Fethullah Gülen, a moderate Turkish Muslim scholar, and the Hizment Movement he inspired. Dogan Koç analyzes approximately 500 defamation articles, books, and other texts to show these defamations are not random and that they appear according to their respective audiences.

Contents:

STraTeGIC DeFamaTIon of FeTHuLLaH GüLen; Contents; CHAPTER I: Introduction; CHAPTER 2. Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet Movement; 2.1. Biography of Fethullah Gülen; 2.2. History of the Hizmet Movement; 2.2.1. Islam; 2.2.2. Education; 2.2.3. Dialogue; 2.2.4. Science and Modernity; 2.2.5. Politics; CHAPTER 3. Defamation of Gülen in Turkish; 3.1.1. American Puppet: Big Middle East Project; 3.1.2. Moderate Islam: Pope's Secret Cardinal; 3.1.3. Zionist Connections; 3.1.4. Destroying Islam: Gülen is not a Muslim; CHAPTER 4. Defamation of Gülen in English

4.1. Islam's Trojan Horse: Moderate Islam as Taqiyya4.2. America's Khomeini: Same Evil Different Beard; 4.3. Overthrowing Turkish Secular Government and Establishing an Islamic State; 4.4. Resurrection of New Ottoman Empire, and Universal Caliphate; 4.5. Infiltration into the United States; 4.6. Training Islamist Militia in the United States; CHAPTER 5: Data Analysis; 5.1. Data and Coding; 5.2. Data Analysis and the Results; CHAPTER 6. Who are they? Analysis of These Groups; 6.1. Turkish; 6.1.1. Ulusalci Group; Hikmet Cetinkaya: A Career Dedicated to Gülen's Defamation

Ergun Poyraz: Turkish Defamation MachineDogu Perincek (Aydinlik Group); 6.1.2. Radical Islamist Group; Aziz Karaca and the Yeni Mesaj Group; Ahmet Akgul and the Milli Cozum Group; 6.2. English; 6.2.1. Middle East Forum; 6.2.2. The Last Crusade/Paul Williams: A Defamation Machine; 6.2.3. Kurdish Aspect: Aland Mizell; 6.3. Common Tactics; CHAPTER 7. An Example: Fethullah Gülen's Grand Ambition: An Example of Biased, Misleading, Mispresented, and Miscalculated Article; 7.1. Issues Regarding the References in Sharon-Krespin (2009); 7.2. Data Manipulations; 7.3. Selective Information

7.4. Contradictions and Ambiguities in Sharon-Krespin (2009)CHAPTER 8. Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Appendix

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7618-8709-1

1-282-13399-3

9786613806574

0-7618-5931-4

OCLC:

801661412