he enlists the help of a controversial cleric called fethullah gulen.other in the �*90s. like erdogan, gulen wanted to challenge the secular elite and make turkey more islamic. for decades, gulen had run a network of religious schools offering tuition to poorer students. graduates from his schools were then encouraged to getjobs in the police, the army and the judiciary. erdogan knows he needs allies in the upper ranks of the security services and the judiciary... ..and fethullah gulen is looking for a political partner to take on the secular elite, so they make a deal. in 2007, tuncay ozkan was working as a journalist investigating the extent to which followers of fethullah gulen, or gulenists, had infiltrated all the different branches of government. it was a marriage of convenience. one side had the political charisma and following, the other side had the economic power and also bureaucracy, so, it was the perfect match. gulen once was an erdogan ally. for almost a decade, _ gulen helped erdogan build the walls of a republic of fear. through what is