Listen "Turkey: The Gulen Movement"
Episode Synopsis
Turkey's most important Islamic network, the Gulen movement, helped bring the ruling AK Party to power in 2002. But now it threatens to bring it down. Fethullah Gulen, the reclusive Muslim cleric who leads the movement, has hinted that he believes the AKP is no longer fit to govern.Presenter Edward Stourton travelled to Turkey to investigate the Gulen movement in 2011. He discovered unease amongst the Gulen's critics about the movement's influence in key institutions, including the police and judiciary. In the wake of the recent power struggle between the police and the government, he examines the Gulen's role in the rift.Producer: Helen Grady.
More episodes of the podcast The Report
Psychedelic Science
07/04/2016
Dublin's Gangs
04/03/2016
Jimmy Savile and the BBC
25/02/2016
7-Day NHS
18/02/2016
Lord Bramall: A Failure to Investigate?
04/02/2016
Tommy Robinson's Pegida Ambition
28/01/2016
Litvinenko: The Miniature Nuclear Attack
21/01/2016
Momentum
14/01/2016
Afghanistan: Time for Truth?
07/01/2016
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.