If you don’t have a convincing case, there is always manipulation. If one is caught red-handed and there is no way to hide what he/she was doing, what’s the person got to do to get off the hook? Manipulate the crowds, cry wolf, and blame it on the “almighty religion baron.” That would be the easiest way out maybe 25 years ago, but not anymore. We’re trying to point to poor journalist Ahmet Sik and his “enlightening” unfinished book of whatever. Mr. Sik was putting together a ton of unfounded many-times-refuted claims against Fethullah Gulen at some dark powers’ request and under the same powers’ supervision (even redaction). His latest best-seller-wannabe constituted some sort of evidence between Mr. Sik and the Ergenekon saga and he was arrested as a result. While he was being escorted to the public prosecutor’s office he fearlessly yelled “Anyone who touches Fethullah Gulen burns” or something to that effect. He was trying to make a case where he wanted to depict himself as the heroic journalist who, while trying to help people know the “truth”, fell victim to some conspiracy.
That’s obviously not the case at all, because there are tons of books on the shelves of bookstores that depict Mr. Gulen’s work in the poorest of terms. Below is an article in which authors of these books ask “how come we never burnt?”
A number of things have been published against me; dozens of books have been written. However, I have never done anything to keep an unprinted book from publication.
I only pursued my rights as a citizen by legal means in the face of baseless accusations, slander, and assaults against my individual rights. Even books which were identified as illegal by court decisions and whose authors were sentenced to pay compensation have been reprinted.
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