Has the Gülen Movement produced any self-interested ruling cliques?

Self-interested ruling cliques are typically produced by organizations with rigid forms of authoritarianism and charismatic leadership. Within the Gülen Movement, however, there are no organizational tendencies that prioritize maintaining the organization above every other possible goal. Thus, a contemporary altruistic and cultural movement like the Gülen Movement, which expresses individual or interpersonal relationships and pluralistic and democratic tendencies, cannot produce such groups. So far it has demonstrated no goal displacement.

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