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Turkish preacher and theologian, leader of the Hizmet movement: he promoted education, science, interfaith dialogue and Islam in public life, condemning the politicization of religion. Exiled in the US since 1999, he denied Ankara's charge of ordering the 2016 coup.
Political axes
Fethullah Gülen leans further toward religious than 87% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Fethullah Gülen stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Fethullah Gülen sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current reconciling Islam with electoral democracy through conservative religious parties that run in elections and support a market economy and Muslim values in public life, like Turkey's early AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
Centrist branch that combines economic moderation and institutional respect with social conservatism, valuing family, religion, order, and gradual change without joining the authoritarian right or populist radicalism.
German liberal school of Freiburg (Eucken, Rüstow, Müller-Armack) that defends the free market within firm rules guaranteed by the state, against monopolies and central planning, with a Christian ethical basis and social policy, the origin of the social market economy.
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Pol Pot SocialismRadical Left35%
Saudi prince and founder of Kingdom Holding, Alwaleed invested in Citigroup, Twitter, Four Seasons and News Corp and advocated economic opening and women's employment in the kingdom. He was detained in 2017 in Mohammed bin Salman's anti-corruption campaign.
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With Fernando Henrique Cardoso at the Finance Ministry and then in the Presidency, Brazil stabilized its currency with the Plano Real, privatized state firms and adopted a Fiscal Responsibility Law, in a democracy that approved presidential re-election.
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