Shunned and Purged: Turkey’s Crackdown on the Hizmet (Gülen) Movement
2020; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-3-030-57476-5_10
ISSN2352-8389
AutoresSophia Pandya, Brenda Oliden, Ibrahim Aytac Anli,
Tópico(s)Islamic Studies and History
ResumoThis chapter examines the reasons for which the Hizmet Gülen Movement (HGM) has become a primary target of Erdoğan, and offers analysis on the characteristics and strategies of conservative, authoritarian populism, and of the processes used to destroy the HGM network in Turkey and attempts to neutralize it abroad. It also sheds light on the human consequences of the purge, or crackdown, against the movement. This work is informed, in part, by scholarship on populist state-sponsored violence and the effects of collective trauma. The mechanisms by which Erdoǧan has carried out his crackdown have been effective, and have had far-reaching consequences. These include firing people at random, seizing property, kidnapping, arbitrary arrests (without due process), promoting a climate of fear, silencing, scapegoating, and social and religious shunning (or "takfirism"). This qualitative research is shaped by participant/observation ethnographic methodology. Interviews were semi-structured in nature, collected via a mixture of purposive and snowball sampling, and were carried out from June, 2016, to July, 2018. Our goal was to interview those HGM participants that recently fled Turkey due to political oppression and/or fear of imminent arrest to seek asylum in the US. We asked informants why they had left Turkey, what their experiences were, and how those experiences impacted them and their families. Fethullah Gülen was also interviewed at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, on April 23, 2017.
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