
Bayram Balcı « Situating the Gülen Movement in France and in Europe »
Bayram Balcı « Situating the Gülen Movement in France and in Europe », Politics, Religion & Ideology, Volume 19, 2018 – Issue 1: Ruin or Resilience? The Future of the Gülen, pp. 69-80 https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2018.1453262 Fethullah Gülen’s Turkish socio-religious movement has been active in Europe for over a decade in the spheres of education and interfaith dialogue. Operating outside Turkey and with relative freedom of association and expression, the Gülen movement has begun to carve out its niche in European Islam. Unlike in the United States, where supporters have chartered full-time schools, members of the Gülen movement in France and Germany mostly offer after-school tutorial services. It is within these programs that Fethullah Gülen’s moral and ethical worldview is being exposed to increasing numbers