“…Whether a part of any entryist organization or not, one can roughly depict the profile of Gülenist academics as moderately statist and nationalist Muslim, usually with an uncritical stance towards both neoliberalism and authoritarianism. Furthermore, referred to as "Weberian Islamists" by some scholars (Keskin 2012), a competitive spirit has always been encouraged in and by Gülenist circles (Özdalga 2000). In short, the great majority of the purged allegedly Gülenist academics were not known as dissidents in their universities and, due to this, at the time of their prosecution a considerable number of them were holding executive positions in these universities 9 .…”