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Harrington tells a story that illuminates two of the most important issues of our time. The way he tells the story and the sources on which he has relied represent the best kind of historical research and analysis. Jim Harrington is one my heroes for he has spent more than four decades in the struggle for human rights.In this book, we see the struggle among secular and religious elements in Turkey. . . . Harrington has done us a service, for by seeing and understanding what has been going on in Turkey, we can draw lessons about the policies of our own government at home and abroad. Harrington's method of research and analysis is particularly valuable in this respect.Trials can, and fair trials will, give voice to witness stories. . . . The case [Harrington] has chosen is iconic because its central figure presents a challenge to important secular and religious trends in modern Turkey. The case is important to Americans because these very trends are at work in many parts of the Middle East, and because this Turkish political trial teaches us important lessons for our own country. (Michael E. Tigar, emeritus professor of the practice of law, Duke Law School, and emeritus professor of law, Washington College of Law; author of Thinking about Terrorism)
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James C. Harrington FOREWORD BY MICHAEL E. TIGAR V Mi About the Author ames C. Harrington is Director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, which he founded in 1990, and has been an adjunct professor at the University of Texas Law School since 1985. A native of Michigan, Harrington received his law degree in 1973 from the University of De troit, where he also earned a Master’s degree in philosophy in 1969. After law school, Harrington went to work at the South Texas Project in the Rio Grande Valley and, before moving to Austin in 1983, was its director for eight years. Harrington has spent his career as a lawyer in human rights work, handling landmark cases involving grand jury discrimination, police miscon-duct, privacy, voting rights, free speech and assembly, farm worker organizing, and the rights of persons with disabilities. He is author of The Texas Bill o f Rights: A Commentary and Litiga tion Manual and numerous law review articles, commentaries, and opin ion pieces. Harrington served on human rights delegations to Honduras and Nica ragua (1984), Chile (1987), Israel and the Palestinian territories (1988), Guatemala (1992 and 1998), and Mexico (Chiapas 1999) and authored “ jAlto a la Impunidad! Is There Legal Relief for the Murders of Women in Ciudad Juarez?” (2010). The Texas Civil Rights Project is a community-based, non-profit civil rights foundation, promoting social, racial, and economic justice and civil liberty for low income and poor persons, through the legal system and public education. J Copyright © 2011 by University Press of America,® Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite 200 Lanham, Maryland 20706 UPA Acquisitions Department (301) 459-3366 Estover Road Plymouth PL6 7PY United Kingdom All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America British Library Cataloging in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Control Number: 2011920333 ISBN: 978-0-7618-5461-6 (paperback : alk. paper) elSBN: 978-0-7618-5462-3 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992 Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 A Painful Prosecution, But Ultimately a Step Forward vii xi xiii 1 Chapter 2 Fethullah Giilen and the “Movement” A. Fethullah Giilen Himself B. Civil Society Movement Inspired by Giilen’s Life and Works 1. Hizmet: Education and Service to the World Community 2. Dialogue: Souls Seeing Each Other 3. Criticis