A/HRC/37/50/Add.2 2. IDEOLOGY OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THE LEADERSHIP FETÖ, like other terrorist organizations, has its own on peculiar faith/ideological base and a narrative that enable its members endure difficulties, sacrifice personal relations, and do anything to reach their goals. FETÖ members carry out all kind of deeds with no regard to any legal and moral codes, by acting in full obedience with the leader and believing in their righteousness. The absolute leader and the only dominant person of the organization is Fetullah GÜLEN. Other executives carry out the work assigned by him and on behalf of him. GÜLEN is called by members of the organization as the “Imam of the Universe”, “Divine Human”, “Great Master”, “One who has the talent of communication with metaphysic world and afterlife”, “Mahdi”, “Messiah”, “Divine Person”, Honorable”, and “Master Teacher”. Attributing divinity to himself GÜLEN considers that he is not bound by any religious, moral, or judicial rules. He regards himself as an authority that can behave opposite to what he says, overturn a religious prohibition, put into practice new bans. He sees himself as an authority capable of changing basic religious codes. From the onset of his movement Gülen made his followers believe that in order to survive under a suppressive secular State, they should act with absolute precation. In Gülenist terminology “Precaution” refers to an array of things to obscure a member’s affiliation with the organization: hiding the books of the Organization; going in and out of the Organization’s secret houses not in groups but one by one; being very careful when meeting somewhere in case of being followed; and most importantly obeying the instructions of the leaer. While asking the members of the Organization to be cautious, he was also taking them under his wings and putting his clamps on them. In other words, he became more powerful by scaring the members and strengthening their feeling of belonging with the Organization. Members of the Organization learns and practices “the precaution” from the very first moment when they became a part of the Organization. Over the course of time, precaution evolves and turns into the practice of “hypocrisy”. Under the absolute dominance of its leader, the ideology of FETÖ is also formed by opinions and ideas of GÜLEN. In the eyes of Gülen, humanity is simply divided between the “men of the service” and “others”. He further categorizes ‘others’ into two groups: ‘those who can be attracted to the organization’ and ‘the enemy front’. Such a distinction provides a reason for legitimacy to the Organization, since it always seeks an enemy front, defines itself over this enemy and motivates its members over this enemy. The strategic aims of the organization are three-fold: Political: to seize all constitutional institutions of Republic of Turkey (executive, legislative and judicial powers) to create a new system based on the dominance of an elite (Gülenist) class and to become an influential political power at international level, Economical: to form a parallel taxation system under the name of “Benevolent contributions” by exploiting religious feelings of the society, to establish big holdings and companies including education institutions, finance, media, NGOs and health institutions at home and abroad and to administer economic power by means of its own cadres who were raised with the culture of absolute obedience, 21