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[Fethullah Gulen | Gulen Movement | CBS News 60Minutes | Abdulhamit Bilici ] Fethullah Gulen promotes tolerance, interfaith dialog, and above-all: he promotes education. And yet he's a mystery man -- he's never seen or heard in public -- and the more power he gains, the more questions are raised about his motives and the schools. Fethullah Gulen's embrace of Western values has helped to modernize Turkey. Abdulhamit Bilici, general manager of the Cihan News Agency in Istanbul said: Until early 90's Islamic movement had the problem with the concept of secularism, democracy and other universal concepts. So Fethullah Gulen was the one of the pioneers in the sense he said in the early 9o's: "Turkey will not turn from democracy" Democracy and Islam of course are compitable