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From Diaspora by Design to Transnational Political Exile: The Gulen Movement in Transition
Karl Franzens Univ Graz, Austria.
Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, REMESO - Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Univ Strasbourg, France.
2018 (English)In: Politics, Religion & Ideology, ISSN 2156-7689, E-ISSN 2156-7697, Vol. 19, no 1, p. 33-52Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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In the wake of the July 2016 putsch and the subsequent purge of followers of the outlawed Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen in every sphere of Turkish life under the ruling AKP governments state of emergency, the Gulen movement (GM) is in disarray and crisis. A fruitful way to bring some analytical order to this issue is through the frame of diaspora, which we contend provides some useful analytical purchase on understanding the movement historically and in transition. The GM as it stood prior to 2016 is, we contend, best conceived as a transnational parapolitical network-a diaspora by design-dedicated principally to the service, not of humanity, but of power. Based on interviews with over 70 key members of the movement conducted between 2012 and 2018, we show how, from the late 1990s Gulen and his supporters crafted a complex transnational structure that has combined extensive financial operations with a distinctive organizational morphology. We map out the contours of this structure and show how it emerged over time via instrumentalization of Gulens parapolitical ideology and the steady accretion of politically directed, corporate projects outside Turkey. Finally, drawing again on the notion of diaspora, we offer a framework for thinking about how the movement may evolve in future as it transitions to a fragmented community in transnational in political exile.

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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD , 2018. Vol. 19, no 1, p. 33-52
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-163070DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2018.1453254ISI: 000431596700003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-163070DiVA, id: diva2:1384222
Available from: 2020-01-09 Created: 2020-01-09 Last updated: 2020-01-09

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