Fabrication and twisting facts continues to be the norm at media organizations close to the Gülen Movement with a recent report about the supposed leader of a group linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) proposing to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's daughter Sümeyye Erdoğan among the most blatant infractions of media ethics. The matter came to a head after Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Mahmut Tanal submitted on Tuesday a parliamentary question to Interior Minister Sebahattin Öztürk about the activities of the self-proclaimed Lazica Islamic Emirate in Turkey and the group's leader's proposal for Sümeyye Erdoğan to marry him.Tanal claimed it proved how such a group felt close to the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). The Gülen Movemnet-affiliated English-language daily, Today's Zaman, joining Tanal in attacking the president's family knowing that the person in question was currently living in Germany and certified insane by German authorities. Several Turkish media outlets also joined the bandwagon, including pro-Kemalist Sözcü daily and pro-left soL Haber news website.Former Zaman daily columnist Hüseyin Gülerce, who was a senior figure of the Gülen Movement before severing his links with the movement due to its attacks on government figures, said the movement, which is currently being investigated and the extradition from the U.S. of its leader, Fethullah Gülen, is sought, started its war on the government through its media contacts and operatives within the judiciary on Feb. 7, 2012, by trying to detain National Intelligence Organization (MİT) head Hakan Fidan for supposed collaboration with the terrorist PKK. The Gülen Movement is accused of infiltrating state institutions and wiretapping top-level security meetings and state officials in efforts to topple the government.Gülerce said: "They actually are waging a psychological war. They don't waste any opportunity to attack government figures, despite the spuriousness of the claims." Gülerce criticized the latest attack that targeted Sümeyye Erdoğan and described it as the usual libelous attacks on Erdoğan. "Those who have a good head on their shoulders do not report erroneous, flagrant and vulgar slander about the president's daughter," Gülerce said.The man who claimed to head the group linked to ISIS, Cumali Mol, has been undergoing treatment for mental illness in Germany since April 2008. According to a medical report submitted by his doctor to the Turkish Consulate General in Germany: "Mr. Mol receives neural treatment from me. As it is known, he has paranoid psychosis. Therefore, he had to receive treatment several times in the hospital and had to use anti-psychotic medicine on a regular basis. Mr. Mol is not eligible for military service due to the type and heaviness of his disease."Tanal's effort to exploit the individual's mental disease was also criticized by his own party whose parliamentary group Deputy Chairman Levent Gök said: "Sümeyye Erdoğan's name is not mentioned in the question submitted by Mahmut Tanal. If it had been, we would not have allowed it. If he shared certain information outside of the question's content while briefing the media, we would not approve of it. We are against any violation of information about people's private life in public."CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu yesterday tried to clarify the matter, describing it as a mistake made by an adviser who was dismissed afterward.This is not the first time Gülenist media outlets have tried to use misinformation to attack the government. On Aug. 15, Gülen Movement-affiliated figures commented on the increasing likelihood of early elections after coalition talks failed, making allusions to coup attempts to end the impasse. On her Twitter account, Sevgi Akarçeşme, a columnist with Zaman and Today's Zaman, posted a tweet that said: "Thanks to AKP for proving the argument that Islamists come with elections but do not go with elections!" Bekir Çınar, a Gülen Movement-affiliated academic, responded to her, saying: "The AKP leaves power either by streets or military intervention."In April, fabricated Gülenist media reports targeted Uighurs, who were forced to seek refuge due to the Chinese government's religious, cultural and language restrictions as well as ethnic discrimination policy. In the report, it was claimed that ISIS was given more than 100,000 fake Turkish passports under the government's authorization and these passports were used by Uighurs escaping to Turkey to enter Syria and join ISIS.