MİT's warning on Gülen 13 years ago

A significant benefit of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission on the July 15, 2016, coup attempt is that it has registered all accessible information and documents about the Gülen movement, thus providing public access to them. 

Among them there are two documents that have special importance. These are the presentations made by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) and the Office of the General Staff at a National Security Council (MGK) meeting held on June 24, 2004, about the threats and foreign relations of the Gülen movement. 

Following the discussions over these two presentations, at an MGK meeting held on Aug. 25, 2004, a recommendation was decided on "preparing an action plan" against the Gülen movement's domestic and international activities, however this recommendation was not able to be followed because the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government did not take it to the cabinet. 

An interesting point is that the person who submitted the texts of the presentations of MİT and the General Staff to MGK, to the parliamentary commission is a journalist. Daily Posta writer Nedim Şener, at the Oct. 25, 2016, meeting of the parliamentary commission, handed the texts of MİT's "Gülen Group's Activities Abroad" and the Office of the General Staff's "Presentation for the Agenda Topic on Fethullah Gülen." In 2004, when these presentations were made, MİT's undersecretary was Şenkal Atasagun and Chief of General Staff was Gen. Hilmi Özkök. 

Starting with the MİT presentation, in the nine-page presentation, the Gülen movement has been described as "an organizational structure like a state." The dimension of the threat created by the group constitutes significance.  

In this document, it is drawn to attention that as...