"Et tu, Brute?" - Hallmark of political Islam criticizes Erdoğan's policies.

"Et tu, Brute?" - Hallmark of political Islam criticizes Erdoğan's policies.(TZ).

The Milli Görüş (National View) movement that gave birth to the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has voiced its harshest criticisms against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AK Party government, which is embattled by a serious corruption scandal.

The Milli Gazete daily, the mouthpiece of the National View movement, and the Felicity Party (SP), the movement's political wing, have argued that the AK Party led by Erdoğan has tarnished the prestige of Islam and accused Erdoğan of committing a hate crime against the Hizmet movement by describing it as a "parallel structure."

In reaction to former EU Affairs Minister and chief negotiator Egemen Bağış -- who allegedly mocked the Quran in a phone conversation with journalist Metehan Demir, in an audio recording leaked on March 18 -- Milli Gazete, voicing harsh criticisms against AK Party policies, ran the headline, "This shame cannot be cleared by the ballot box," adding, "Sometimes keeping silent is better than talking."

SP leader Mustafa Kamalak has underlined that the only person who believes in Erdoğan's claims of a parallel structure is Erdoğan himself and states that in the international arena, Turkey is only spoken about in relation to the corruption and bribery claims.

Selman Esmerer, the SP mayoral candidate for the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, who is also a leading figure in the SP, argues that the corruption and bribery allegations against Erdoğan have damaged people's perception of Islam.

Speaking on a TV program on March 19, Esmerer argued that it was impossible for Erdoğan to earn such huge wealth through legal channels and underlined that some circles have reaped unearned income from urban transformation projects in İstanbul.

The Yeni Asya Community, a faction of the Nursi movement, has also harshly criticized the AK Party government's actions through news reports and headlines published in its newspaper, Yeni Asya. In reaction to a document prepared by the National Security Council (MGK) on Aug. 25, 2004, which persuaded the government to implement a series of measures to curb the activities of the Hizmet movement inspired by Fethullah Gülen, the Yeni Asya daily ran the headline "This is not democracy" on Dec. 4, 2013, and underlined that discrimination against people on the basis of their religious affiliations has continued to occur.

Kazım Güleçyüz, Yeni Asya's editor-in-chief, spoke to the Zaman daily on Feb. 2, expressing his reaction to evidence of a government-designed “pool media” created through funds raised by various businessmen to protect the government's interests. Güleçyüz also stressed: "Erdoğan, who has insulted religious scholar Fethullah Gülen by calling him a 'phony scholar' and 'false prophet' is acting with the mentality of those who declare other groups [other Muslims] to be unbelievers.

It is impossible to develop brotherhood with such discourse. This discourse will harm the country and hurts the people's hearts. Millions of people have been hurt by this discourse.Read the full story here.