THY's boss, who was appointed in 2005 by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's mildly Islamist prime minister.
That has largely gone since Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) Party shot to single-party rule in 2002.
Bulent Arinc, deputy prime minister in the mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) government, called for the series to be scrapped.
This mildly Islamist grouping had changed its name in order to apply a second time, after losing a court appeal against the committee.
Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party blames the PKK and what it considers to be its provocations for the collapse.
Its mildly Islamist government is showing worrying signs of authoritarianism these days, but it serves its people far better than the generals did.
Turkey's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party is credited with making unprecedented reforms to protect women since it came to power in 2002.
Turkey's mildly Islamist prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is in difficulty.
Many secular Turks fret that the Ataturk myth is unravelling under the mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party, which has been in power since 2002.
The mildly Islamist ruling AK party in Turkey is seen by the PJD as a model to emulate but accused by the Brotherhood of selling out.
Pro-secular newspapers have cast the affair as a further twist in the battle between western-minded Turks and the mildly Islamist ruling Justice and Development (AK) party.
The first bit of bad news was that the mildly Islamist Virtue Party could win nearly a quarter of the votes in the election tentatively scheduled for April.
Until recently some would have suspected a different sort of conspiracy: one carried out by coup-plotting army officers bent on discrediting the mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) government.
The mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party, which has governed Turkey since 2002, plans to deploy a new professional army along the border with Iraq, where the PKK has havens.
Rather, it is another twist in the long-running power struggle between Mr Erdogan and his mildly Islamist party, and an old guard led by the generals that has steadily lost ground.
The mildly Islamist Virtue party, the main one in opposition, wants a parliamentary investigation into the two last-named but not Mr Ozkan, who is cosy with an influential Islamic fraternity, the Fetullahcis.
But the rise to power of Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party and the exposure of mischief by soldiers from coup plotting and corruption to incompetence in the field has changed that.
Turkey's falling out with Israel has sparked a flurry of anguished commentary in the West about its supposed eastward drift under the mildly Islamist Justice and Development party, which has governed the country since 2002.
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Rumour has it that Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the mildly Islamist prime minister, is holding back from replacing the Istanbul police chief for the simple reason that the Gulen movement wants the change and he doesn't want to seem beholden.
When Turkey's prime minister visited the city last year, the local mayor, who belongs to Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party, sought to avoid his ire by ordering the removal of a public fountain featuring bare-breasted nymphs.
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The perception that Turkey's dismal record on human rights was improving has suffered from new scandals, including the brutal repression of prison riots in December, and the revival of charges against Virtue, the biggest party that dares to air mildly Islamist views.
The spin coming out of Washington is that Turkey's powerful and pro-western generals are ready to side with the Americans, but are being held back by the Justice and Development Party, a mildly Islamist grouping that catapulted to power in the November 3rd election.
Members of the main opposition group, the mildly pro-Islamist Virtue party, have asked why it took the authorities so long to act against Hizbullah.
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