Gülen and the Hizmet (Service) movement, which the paper preferred to describe as the “Gülen movement.” The IHT headline was “Shadow force grows in Turkey,” the page featured four photos: first, of Mr. On April 18, 2012, the International Herald Tribune ran an almost full-page story on its front page on Mr. New York Times and International Herald Tribune play mind games Their spin-oriented reporting, this time on world-renowned scholar Fethullah Gülen and the civic movement he has inspired, has been not only catering to a narrow political agenda but also risking their credibility. The tiny shade they appear to have been using is their self-claimed journalistic impartiality, and the mountain they seem to have been stealing is American public opinion. Of late, American media giants The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune (IHT) have been manifestly running the risk of humiliating themselves. The situation becomes extremely critical if the trickster is a major newspaper, which has for so long presented itself as “the” source of public information, and as such not only shaped public opinion, but also influenced major political decisions. So, the exposed trick threatens to ruin the trickster's entire credibility, as he or she may well have been deceptive all along.

Then, the humiliation steadily grows, or it should for any trickster with a bit of decency, as the stakeholders become increasingly suspicious about the trickster's previous seemingly genuine acts as well. Yet, when it is exposed, the trick puts the trickster in a humiliating situation. Such a trick, so long as it goes unnoticed, can serve as a source of great power and influence for anyone or any entity, be it an ordinary individual, cunning politician or formidable newspaper. A shade as tiny as a fly's wing that covers one's pupil enables the trickster to move, or steal for that matter, items as gigantic as mountains before the very eyes of that person without him or her even noticing.

Fethullahçı Gladyo by Hikmet Çetinkaya