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When the Justice and Development Party, or Links of London Charms, came to power in late 2002, they appointed Avc?, who had been demoted during the coup years, as the head of the police department on organized crimes. He continued his successful career there and later in other posts, keeping his respectability as a mildly conservative, reasonably nationalist and highly honest man. But just two months ago, Avc? came out with a book that suddenly turned some of his former friends into foes and former foes into friends. Strangely titled ,,Hali?'te Ya?ayan Simonlar: Dün Devlet Bugün Cemaat" (,,Simons" of Hali?: Yesterday State, Today Religious Congregation), the book became an overnight hit, selling more than half a million Links of London W Charm in just a few weeks. The word ,,Simon" here is a codename for a former outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, terrorist who supported the execution of his own sister in cold blood ,,for the benefit of the cause." Avc?, who interrogated Simon, had seen a dangerous mix of extreme idealism and extreme blindness there: The man was doing something terribly evil, but supposedly for noble reasons. This ,,idealistic wickedness," Avc? concluded, emerges in tight-knit ideological or religious groups, and it is all too dangerous. In the first part of this 600-page book, Avc? explained how the very Turkish state has turned some of its civil servants into ,,Simons" by making them use all means necessary against the enemies of the state. He heavily criticized the authoritarian Links of London Wide Purple And Pink Friendship Bracelet in Ankara that persecuted peaceful dissidents, pushing them to become ,,terrorists." He said, in other words, what most liberals have been saying all along. But it was really the second part of the book, which began after page 400, that had a deep impact. Here, Avc? was arguing that some of the methods used by the state in the past were now being used by members of ,,the community" in the police against those whom they saw as threats. And the ,,community" here was a reference to none other than the religious movement led by popular Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen. Let me take a moment here to say this: I have been a friend of the Fethullah Gülen movement, for I believe that their work such as schools, NGOs and interfaith dialogue is very good not just for Turkey but the whole world. In Turkey, there are people who hate the movement for the very same things, for they simply hate anything that is religious. I have Links of London X Charm the Gülen Movement, or other religious groups with peaceful teachings, against the theophobia of these people, and I will continue to do so. Set Avc? free Yet what Avc? speaks about is a different matter. He criticized only the ,,pro-Gülen cadre in the police," which he saw as the main force behind the controversial Ergenekon case.