Is this the way to fight Gülen?

Both the Turkish government and the opposition parties want to find out the dynamics behind the bloody coup attempt of July 15. Both the government and the opposition parties accuse the secret network of U.S.-based Islamist scholar Fethullah Gülen of masterminding the coup attempt.

President Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım's Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government see Gülen and his network as an existential threat, along with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its acts of terror.

The government has formally asked the U.S. to extradite Gülen, who lives on a ranch in Pennsylvania, to Turkey for trial as the leader of what it calls the "Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ)." 

However, the government's methods in its fight against Gülen and his network, (which is also an ideological threat among the grassroots of the AK Parti, unlike the threat from the PKK), has caused criticism among political parties as well as foreign governments.

Those criticisms can be grouped as follows:

•A commission has been formed in parliament by all four parties in order to search for the dynamics behind the coup attempt, starting work on Oct. 4, almost three months after July 15. Aytun Çıray, a member of the commission from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) list, has noted that two of the MPs assigned by the AK Party, one of them Reşat Petek as the commission chairman, used to praise Gülen in the past and attack those who tried to draw attention to the possible threat posed by Gülen and Gülenists within the state apparatus. Çıray said this cast a shadow over the AK Parti's sincerity about the parliamentary research.

•The prosecutions to find those involved in the coup attempt...