How could Samanyolu TV prophesize the court's decision? Samanyolu TV is well-known to be associated with the Gülen movement. Ahmet Şık was arrested mainly because of his book manuscript which was an exposé of the movement's influence over the bureaucracy of security intelligence and judiciary [you can read selections from the book on Human Rights Foundation of Turkey - the book has since been published in Turkish under the title of OOO Kitap]. On Monday, January 2, Orhan Gazi Ertekin, the president of the Union of Judges and Prosecutors for Democracy and Freedom, confirmed Gülen movement's influence over the judiciary, adding that "the guardianship of the army came to an end; the guardianship of the judiciary began. The judiciary became like the army (read more on Jiyan)." Ertuğrul Mavioğlu, who has covered the movement for the daily Radikal, recently suggested that the Gülen movement replaced the military as Turkey's "deep state" (see Justin Vela's report on Eurasianet).
