Arango,Tim(26 February 2014).„Turkish Leader Disowns Trials That Helped Him Tame Military”.The New York Times.Pristupljeno 27 February 2014.»In 2005, years before the trials, a man affiliated with the Gulen movement approached Eric S. Edelman, then the American ambassador, at a party in Istanbul and handed him an envelope containing a handwritten document that supposedly laid out a plan for an imminent coup. But as Mr. Edelman recounted, he gave the documents to his colleagues and they were determined to be forgeries.«
Arango,Tim(26 February 2014).„Turkish Leader Disowns Trials That Helped Him Tame Military”.The New York Times.Pristupljeno 27 February 2014.»Bilo da su korupcijske optužbe opravdane ili ne – postojalo je mnogo dokaza koji su procurili, naročito prisluškivanih konverzacija, koje su se pokazale inkriminirajućim – korupcijska kazna će razotkriti utjecaj Gülenovih kretanja unutar države Turske, koja su u velikoj mjeri sumnjičava, ali teško dokaziva.«
