Gülen
AKP Watch September 2nd, 2007
Fethullah Gülen - Ideological Leader of AK Party
“You must move in the arteries of the system, without anyone noticing your existence, until you reach all the power centres… until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this. If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in] Syria… like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt. The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete, and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it… You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey….”
“Posts in the home and justice ministries that we managed to capture, have to be expanded. These entities are a safeguard of our future. Our members should not be content with being county judges or mayors, but aim for the highest offices. You must proceed without being detected and find the system’s decisive positions. To a certain degree you must not enter into open dialogue with our political opponents, but you must not fight them openly either. If our friends came out prematurely the world would crush our heads and Muslims will suffer the same fate as in Algeria. The world is very frightened of Islamic development. We must tread carefully. Those among us who are involved in this mission must still behave like diplomats, like they were caretakers of the whole world – until you have collected enough power, and fill all those positions in the framework of the constitutional Turkish apparatus with our own. Any other step would be premature.”
