At the same time, the Gülen movement invested heavily and shrewdly in cultivating Turkey’s Western-oriented intelligentsia. Thus, despite Gülen’s own embarrassing history of anti-Semitic and anti-Western sermons, his followers managed to establish themselves by the 2000s as a civil-society movement that shared Turkish liberals’ values and aspirations.
与此同时，葛兰运动精明地投入巨资培养土耳其的西化知识分子。因此，尽管有着反犹太和反西方布道的尴尬历史，但21世纪葛兰运动追随者仍成功树立了民间社会运动形象，与土耳其自由派有着共同的价值观和愿望。