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Fethullah Gülen calls himself a man of moderation and tolerance. “Inter-faith dialogue” is one his movement’s trademarks.  He and his followers go to great lengths to reach out to believers of other religions and their leaders. When you go to his English-language web site, you see the words “understanding and respect” right underneath his name. […]

The Turkish court that sentenced more than 300 officers on coup plotting charges in September apparently thinks so. The Turkish military has long set the ground rules for Turkish politics, and this was hailed as a landmark trial. Many saw it as the centerpiece of a democratic, mildly Islamist government’s long overdue reckoning with the […]

The Washington Post published an oped by Dani shortly after the Sledgehammer verdict was announced. It begins: After a patently sham trial, a Turkish court on Friday handed down lengthy jail sentences to more than 300 military officers convicted of planning a coup, code-named Sledgehammer, in 2003. Turkey’s courts have been working overtime to throw government opponents of […]

Press Release Washington, D.C.: Perseus Strategies, a boutique U.S.-based law firm focusing on international human rights, recently filed a petition (attached) with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention for the Turkish Defendants in the “Sledgehammer” coup plot case.  The Working Group consists of independent and impartial experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council […]

An outrageous article in Today’s Zaman full of deliberate distortions on the Sledgehammer case further confirms what we have been arguing all along: the Gulen movement is thoroughly implicated in the massive evidence fabrication on which the charges in the case rest.  Why else would this newspaper, the mouthpiece of the movement, print an article […]

Dani was interviewed recently by the German publication Deutsch Türkische Nachrichten, which published the interview in German.  Here is the original in English: World famous pianist Fazil Say, one of Turkey’s most outstanding artists, faces a trial in Turkey, because he re-tweeted a message which contained some very subtle irony about some religious topic. Says […]

Nearly two years ago in the early days of the Sledgehammer affair, we asked a long-time Turkish analyst who could be behind the fake documents on which the case rests.  He replied without batting an eyelid: “It’s the cemaat [Gülenists].” “How can you know?” we asked.  “It’s as obvious as the sun rising from the […]

As many times as you want, but Turkish courts will still not listen. The evidence behind the Sledgehammer mass trial has already been thoroughly discredited. To any but the most jaundiced mind, it is patently obvious that the coup plan called Sledgehammer never existed, and that it was concocted by forgers to frame the officers […]

In view of the mountain of evidence pointing to forgery in the Sledgehammer case, it is amazing that we can still read this from a leading Turkish intellectual Etyen Mahçupyan, who writes for the Gulenist daily Today’s Zaman: “Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan first learned about the Sledgehammer coup plan in 2004 ….” Erdoğan knew […]

There is a story today in the Chelsea Record about Arsenal Consulting, the forensic firm that identified the digital forgery in the Sledgehammer CDs. Here is Mark Spencer, the president of the company: “Those responsible for forging these documents went through a significant amount of effort trying to be consistent. It was the consistency that […]