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In criminal cases instituted in Turkey against Turkish journalists and the police, who have been supporting Fethullah Gulen, the leader of the "Nur", has suddenly been emerged also the name of the Tanzila Rustamkhanly the wife of the deputy of the Azerbaijani Parliament, the chairman of the "Civil Solidarity" party Sabir Rustamkhanli, reports the Azerbaijani information portal "Haqqin.az."

As it is noted in the article, the arrested journalists and police officers in Turkey are accused of fabricated false charges against a group of "Tahshiejits" - supporters of Sheikh Said Nursi, who is the ardent opposition of Fethullah Gülen.

As stated in the article, in 2011, as a result of investigation Tahshiejits’ leader Mehmet Dogan unexpectedly turns to be the head of the unit of "Al Qaeda" terrorist organization in Turkey and Azerbaijan. The inquiry sent by Ertan Ercikti, the chief of the police of anti-terrorism in Istanbul, states that Mehmet Dogan has had contacts in Azerbaijan too.

"Mehmet Dogan was in close ties with Tanzilya Rustamkhanly, Agil Hussein F. and Hussein B. in Azerbaijan. These ties have been confirmed through tapping of phones," the inquiry sent to the republican prosecutor's office in Turkey notes.

It is assumed that Agil F. mentioned in the document is the editor of "Yeni Chag" newspaper published in Azerbaijan by Agil Alasgar. This newspaper by its consistent criticism towards Fehtullah Gülen has caused extreme dissatisfaction of his supporters. One of those arrested by the case of Tahshiejits was Hussein Beyukfyrat, a businessman from Shanliurf province. He is a Turkish student in Azerbaijan, who has long ago opened a chain of restaurants "Beyukfyrat."

Portal notes that soon editor of "Yeni Chag" Agil Alasgar got in touch with their editorial staff and said that Fehtullah Gülen and his supporters have harassed the critics of their movement in Azerbaijan. According to him, he has become one of the victims of harassment after publishing a number of articles about Fehtullah Gülen. "After this series of articles published in 2007, they started to accuse me of working on PKK," Ergenekon "," Al-Qaeda "and even Mossad," Agil Alasgar says.

According Agil Alaskar, the head of the Fethullah Gülen sect learnt about his revelatory publications too. The latter instructed his supporters in Azerbaijan to solve this problem, the portal writes. "Then the head of the department of the Presidential Administration Elnur Aslanov and MP Jeyhun Osmanli attempted to arrest me,” said Agil Alasgar.

As noted in the portal, despite the fact that Aslanov has lost his job, the pressure on the journalist still continues. "This suggests that the position of Nur in Azerbaijan has not weakened," concludes the portal.

Nur are members of the pro-Turkish religious organization, of Sunni persuasion. They are the followers of an Islamic cleric and scholar Mullah, Said Nursi (1873-1960). The name of this organization comes from the village of Nursi (near Bitlis), which is the birthplace of the founder of the movement.

Supporters of Nur are for the creation of an Islamic state, believing that the secular power "is not from Allah." The Nur are hostile towards Kemalism. According to the Turkish experts, Turkish billionaire sponsoring this organization, Fattulah Gülen and the Nur community itself today has a capital of 50 billion dollars. After the collapse of the USSR the Nur penetrated almost all the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union, as well as into the Turkic-speaking regions of Russia.

In March 2014, the Azerbaijani newspaper "Yeni Musavat", citing sources in social networks spread information that official circles in Turkey provided the government with a list of high-ranking officials of Azerbaijan in the administration of President Ilham Aliyev and the Azerbaijani government, which have ties with such religious direction as Nur.

In the list of officials recruited by the Gülen sect, are such names like the department head of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Elnur Aslanov, SOCAR Vice President Khalig Mammadov, Chairman of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations Elshad Isgandarov, his deputy Gunduz Ismayilov, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Intigam Babayev, MP Jeyhun Osmanli, Director of CSI at the Presidential Administration Farhad Mammadov, Chairman of the Youth Foundation Farhad Hajiyev.