Özet:

The fact that a movement that was initially presented as the representative of "moderate Islam" deviated from its path and turned into an international radical terrorist organization, the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), raises the question of whether there are religious structures that have undergone such transformations in different geographies and other religions. From this point of view, the transformation process of Aum Shinrikyo, which was founded as one of the contemporary movements of the Buddhist faith with the discourse of a moderate religious movement like FETO and is under the protection of the Japanese State, into a radical terrorist organization coincides with FETO. With the data we obtained from multiple open sources, the basic descriptive features of FETO were determined under a total of forty-four titles, four of which are related to its history and forty to its organizational structure. Within the framework of these determined features, it was aimed to systematically analyze and discuss the similarities of the two international terrorist organizations, FETO and Aum Shinrikyo, in tabular form. Our presentation in tabular form with a comprehensive and systematic analysis is important not only as the strength of our study, but also because it is the first comprehensive analysis comparing the two organizations. Findings obtained by data mining from open sources have revealed that religious cult structures can show similar characteristics regardless of religion or belief because they can be used by different terrorist organizations, and the similarities of the motivation sources of cult organizations in different geographies and religions that have turned into violence and terrorist organizations over time are remarkable. In thirty-three of the determined forty sub-titles, FETO showed similarities with Aum Shinrikyo. It is remarkable that two terrorist organizations established in different geographies and different religions are similar to each other, and at the same time, it can create an idea that they are directed by a certain center.