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<\/p>\nBy Spengler \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
We’ve been had, boys and girls: the international community, the world press, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIsraeli intelligence, the United Nations, the lot of us. The existential drama \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\toff the Gaza coast turns out to be a Turkish farce, the kind of low comedy that \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin 1782 Wolfgang Mozart set to music in the opera The Abduction from the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeraglio<\/em>, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan playing the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbuffo-villain Osmin and Turkish self-exiled preacher and author Fethullah Gulen \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tas the wise Pasha Selim.<\/p>\n In the post-American world, where every wannabe and used-to-be power makes \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmomentary deals with other powers it plans to kill later, one makes inferences \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith caution. But I’ve seen this opera before.<\/p>\n Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania in the United States, was silent as a jinn<\/em> in a bottle about politics until last Friday, when he told<\/p>\n the Wall Street Journal that the Free Gaza flotilla’s attempt to run the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIsraeli blockage of Gaza “is a sign of defying authority, and will not lead to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfruitful matters”.<\/p>\n Erdogan’s Islamists have run a two-year campaign of judicial activism against \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsecular politicians, journalists and army officers, and secular critics long \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thave alleged that Gulen is the clerical power behind the prime minister.<\/p>\n For the secretive Gulen to criticize the Turkish government in the midst of its \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpublic rage against Israel is an imam-bites-dog story. Gulen appears to have \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpositioned himself as a mediator with Israel. Turkey does not want to end its \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlongstanding relationship with Israel; it wants Israel to become a Turkish \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvassal-state in emulation of the old Ottoman model.<\/p>\n The killing last week by Israeli commandos of nine activists on board the Mavi \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarmara<\/em> served numerous goals, and Gulen’s grand return to Turkish \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpolitics appears to be one of them. The question that every commentator in the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTurkish press asked over the weekend, in one form or other, was: When will this \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvoice of Muslim moderation re-emerge as an open force in the ruling Islamist \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tparty?<\/p>\n There is every indication that the Turkish government dispatched the Gaza \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tflotilla in order to stage a violent confrontation. The Erdogan government \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tannounced that it had carefully vetted the passenger list on the Mavi Marmara<\/em>, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhich is to say that it knew that many of the passengers boarded with the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tintention of achieving “martyrdom” in a clash with the Israelis. They must have \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tknown this, for both the Turkish as well as the Palestinian press ran \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinterviews with family members of some of the nine dead passengers explaining \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthis intent. <\/strong><\/p>\n The passengers’ plans for martyrdom have been celebrated in the Arab press, and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttranslated on the website of the Middle East Media Research Institute. The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTurkish government also knew that the Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH), the Islamic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcharity behind the Gaza flotilla, had ties to Hamas, for it had banned the IHH \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfrom charitable activity in Turkey a decade ago due to its connection to an \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\torganization that the previous secular government regarded as terrorist.<\/p>\n What explains Israel’s apparent intelligence failure? Israel fields a small \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tservice tasked with operations in Iran, southern Lebanon, Gaza and Syria among \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tother prospective enemies. The Mossad probably relied on counterparts in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTurkish intelligence – with whom it has a long history of collaboration – to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcover the passenger list on the Mavi Marmara<\/em>. The often-unreliable Debka \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclaims that “Turkish intelligence duped Israel”, which in this case is likely. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy stealth or by sloth, Israel was roped into the comedy.<\/p>\n The s<\/strong>tar of the comedy, at least for the Turkish media, is Gulen.<\/strong> The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t78-year-old imam has lived in self-imposed exile for two decades, due to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcharges by Turkish prosecutors that he led a conspiracy to subvert the secular \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstate. He presides over Turkey’s largest religious movement, commanding the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloyalty of two-thirds of the Turkish police, according to some reports. His \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmovement – a transnational civic society movement inspired by Gulen’s teachings \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t– also controls a network of elite schools that educate a tenth of the high \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tschool students in the Turkic world from Baku to Kyrgyzstan. And it reportedly \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcontrols businesses with tens of billions of dollars in assets.<\/p>\n His movement has been expelled from the Russian Federation and his followers \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tarrested in Uzbekistan by local authorities who believe his goal is a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpan-Turkic union from the Bosporus to China’s western Xinjiang province (“East \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTurkestan” to Gulen’s movement).<\/p>\n In Mozart’s Abduction<\/em>, Belmonte and Pedrillo descend into the pasha’s \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tharem to rescue Kostanze; in last week’s version, Israeli commandos descended \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonto the Mavi Marmara<\/em>. And there is the stock villain of Viennese \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcomedy, the Turk Osmin, played by Erdogan. The predictable occurs, and the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprospective Shahidi become actual corpses. And Erdogan threatens Israel with \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tterrible things, in emulation of Mozart’s Osmin, who sings:<\/p>\n “First \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tyou’ll be beheaded! This, one supposes, is supposed to frighten the children in the audience, who \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthen will smile and clap when the Wise Old Man enters to urge moderation, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcaution and respect for authority, in the person of Gulen.<\/p>\n The Islamic shift in Turkey has been underway for years. As Rachel \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSharon-Krespin wrote in the Middle East Quarterly (Winter 2009):<\/p>\n As \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTurkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbegins its seventh year in leadership, Turkey is no longer the secular and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdemocratic country that it was when the party took over. The AKP has conquered \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe bureaucracy and changed Turkey’s fundamental identity. Prior to the AKP’s \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trise, Ankara oriented itself toward the United States and Europe. Today, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdespite the rhetoric of European Union accession, Prime Minister Erdogan has \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tturned Turkey away from Europe and toward Russia and Iran and re-oriented \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTurkish policy in the Middle East away from sympathy toward Israel and much \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmore toward friendship with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tare now in a post-American world, at least where the Barack Obama \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tadministration is concerned, and Turkey like its neighbors is scrambling for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tposition. What does Turkey want in a post-American world?<\/p>\n The question itself seems stupid, for the obvious answer is: “Whatever it can \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tget.” It wants to become the dominant regional power rather than Iran, casting \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ta wolfish glance at Iran’s Azeri population, who speak Turkish rather than \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPersian. It wants to “mediate” the Israeli-Palestinian issue and is not \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsqueamish about its prospective partners. It wants Palestine to be an Ottoman \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprovince once again. It wants to be the energy hub for the Middle East and the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\toutlet for Russian and Azerbaijani pipelines.<\/p>\n But it is a bit more complex than that. Modern Turkey is an artificial \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconstruct, rather than a nation-state in the Western sense. Since the Turks \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcompleted the conquest of Byzantine Anatolia in the middle of the 14th century, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ta relatively thin crust of ethnic Turks has ruled over subject peoples. The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOttoman Empire at various points in its history had a Christian majority; its \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcivil service at different points was more Venetian, Armenian and Jewish then \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTurkish; its self-understanding was global and religious, that is, as the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcaliphate of Islam, rather than as a national entity.<\/p>\n When World War I reduced Turkey to an Anatolian rump, Kemal Ataturk attempted \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto impose “Turkishness” as a secular, national ideology on the European model. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTo make the country “Turkish”, several million Orthodox Christians were \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\testimated to have been killed. The hollowness of Ataturk’s secular construct, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmodeled on the nastier European national movements, made it vulnerable from the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbeginning. The army was the only institution that could hold Turkish society \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttogether.<\/p>\n What will replace Ataturk’s secularism? I wrote two years ago:<\/p>\n If \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpolitical Islam prevails in Turkey, what will emerge is not the same country in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdifferent coloration, but a changeling, an entirely different nation. In a 1997 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tspeech that earned him a prison term, Erdogan warned of two fundamentally \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdifferent camps, the secularists who followed Kemal, and Muslims who followed \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsharia. These are not simply different camps, however, but different \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconfigurations of Turkish society at the molecular level. Like a hologram, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTurkey offers two radically different images when viewed from different angles. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTurkish Islam, the ordering of the Anatolian villages and the Istanbul slums, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trepresents a nation radically different than the secularism of the army, the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcivil service, the universities and the Western-leaning elite of Istanbul. If \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe Islamic side of Turkey rises, the result will be unrecognizable. Turkey in the throes of Islamic revolution? Asia Times Online, July 22, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Gulen’s pan-Turkic mysticism views Turkey as the center \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof a new caliphate uniting the Muslim world. He preaches a “Turkish \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trenaissance” with a modern spin “to ensure that religion and science go \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttogether and that science penetrates not only individual lives, but also social \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlife”. His schools educate the elite of the Turkic world across Asia. Gulen’s \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinterest, to be sure, focuses on the Turkish state, whose bureaucracy is now \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfilled with his acolytes. But unlike Ataturk’s secular nationalism, which tried \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto redefine Turkey on a European model, Gulen’s Islamism is inherently \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texpansionist.<\/p>\n What Gulen means by science is of an entirely different order than the Western \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tunderstanding. This “imam from rural Anatolia”, as his website describes him, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinhabits the magical world of jinns<\/em> and sorcery. Science is just a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpowerful form of magic of which Turks should avail themselves to enhance their \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpower, as he writes in his 2005 book, The Essentials of the Islamic Faith:<\/em><\/p>\n Jinn<\/em> are conscious beings charged with divine obligations. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRecent discoveries in biology make it clear that God created beings particular \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto each realm. They were created before Adam and Eve, and were responsible for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcultivating and improving the world. Although God superseded them with us, he \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdid not exempt them from religious obligations.<\/p>\n As nothing is difficult for God almighty, he has provided human beings, angels \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand jinns<\/em> with the strength appropriate for their functions and duties. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAs he uses angels to supervise the movements of celestial bodies, he allows to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thumans to rule the Earth, dominate matter, build civilizations and produce \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttechnology.<\/p>\n Power and strength are not limited to the physical world, nor are they \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tproportional to bodily size … Our eyes can travel long distances in an \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinstant. Our imagination can transcend time and space all at once … winds can \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tuproot trees and demolish large buildings. A young, thin plant shoot can split \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trocks and reach the sunlight. The power of energy, whose existence is known \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthrough its effect, is apparent to everybody. All of this shows that \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsomething’s power is not proportional to its physical size; rather the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\timmaterial world dominates the physical world, and immaterial entities are far \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmore powerful than material ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He goes on to warn about \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsorcery and the danger of spells; he allows that it is meritorious to break \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tspells (for evil witches are everywhere casting spells), although a good Muslim \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tshould not make a profession of this, for then he might be mistaken for a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsorcerer himself. The notion that “wind” and “energy” are “immaterial” forces \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texudes the magical world view of an Anatolian peasant; the miracles of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttechnology are the secret actions of jinn<\/em>, just as the planetary \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmovements are the actions of angels. When Gulen talks about the union of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treligion and science, what he means quite concretely is that the magical view \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof jinns<\/em> in the Koran aids the believer in enlisting these “immaterial” \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tforces to enhance the power of Islam. Science for Gulen means the management of jinn<\/em>.<\/p>\n Gulen, in short, is a shaman, a relic of pre-history preserved in the cultural \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tamber of eastern Anatolia. Kemalism was sterile, brutal, secular and rational; \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe “moderate Islam” of Gulen is magical, a mystic’s vision of Ottoman \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trestoration and a pan-Turkic caliphate. <\/strong><\/p>\n The Erdogan government crafted the Mavi Marmara<\/em> affair as a piece of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttheater, preparing the deus ex machina<\/em> (god from the machine) entrance \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof Gulen himself, more Pagliaccio than Apollo, to be sure. The trouble is that \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe Turkish Islamists live in a world of magical realism in which theater and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treality, human and jinn<\/em>, desire and achievement blend into a mystical \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tblur. Gulen explains in his The Essentials of the Islamic Faith<\/em> that \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAllah created the jinn<\/em> out of fire. 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\nThen hanged!
\nThen spitted on hot stakes!
\nThen bound, and burned, and drowned, and finally skinned!” <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n