Gülen

Turkish police raided the offices of a newspaper close to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen on early Dec. 14, the paper's editor said, two days after President Tayyip Erdoğan signalled a fresh campaign against Gülen's supporters.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has said rumors voiced by a mysterious Twitter user named “Fuat Avni,” over the potential detention of dozens of journalists known to have been close to the U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gülen, should be taken “seriously.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on African states on Nov. 21 to “beware of dangerous organizations operating in their country,” in clear reference to Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen’s movement, which operates many schools across the world, while also announcing an additional $5 million to help Africa’s fight against the Ebola epidemic.