There are people who are not going to be satisfied without destroying every single good in the world. In that quest they will utilize lies, will bring evidence from other lies, and will at the end believe their own fabrications only to pursue even further. All the defaming news we have been hearing about Fethullah Gulen and Service (“Hizmet”) Movement stems from either a distorted fact or a plain lie that is the product of meaningless discourse of fear-mongers. Kerim Balci describes how these lies get around in a vicious cycle.
The conspiracies forged about Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet movement – sometimes wrongly named after him, are not simple lies stemming from hatred or fear. These are deliberate fabrications aimed at harming the Gulen movement and forcing it to suspend its activities worldwide.
A bad -- but, hell, well-implemented -- example is the anti-Gulen campaign run in the Russian press recently. Only a week ago Natalya Ivanova wrote in Nezavisimaya Gazeta that through the Turkish schools in Russia Turkey was trying to found a Pan-Turkish Islamic State that is expanding from the Adriatic to the Great Wall of China. The whole article is based on, not the facts about the Gulen movement, but on the fears of Russian and Central Asian leaders. Are they afraid of a Pan-Turkish movement? So, okay, let us say that the Hizmet Movement is a Pan-Turkish movement. Are they afraid of American influence in their backyard? Well, Fethullah Gulen is living in the US. What is that -- you want more? Ah ha, we also have the most recent fresh fabricated lies of Osman Nuri Gundes! He is the super superhero of the Turkish intelligence. He says that CIA agents are working in the Turkish schools as English language teachers and that they have diplomatic passports. You know what? A total of 60 diplomatic passport-holding CIA agents were working in Uzbekistan alone. Think how many there can be in Russia. Close those schools, close them! KGB? Well, we don’t have any such observation from the KGB. Border controls? You know our border controls. They are all corrupt. We have to trust this 85-year-old Turkish agent. He knows best.
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