Hizmet’s Relations with Other Muslim Communities in the United States
Hizmet is a faith-inspired civil society movement that started in Turkey under the inspiration of Turkish Sunni scholar Fethullah Gulen in the late 1960s. The organization adopts volunteerism for its...
View ArticleJournalist Gültaşlı: European institutions are ‘cherry-picking’ imprisoned...
“It is getting increasingly clear that European institutions are ‘cherry-picking’ the imprisoned journalists in Turkey for whom they want to protest,” wrote journalist Selçuk Gültaşlı, who was Brussels...
View ArticleTurkish gov’t jailed not only journalist Karaca, but also his lawyers and the...
The trial of Turkish journalist Hidayet Karaca (55) has already taken its place in judicial history because not only has he been persecuted by the Turkish government led by autocratic President Recep...
View ArticleTentacles of Turkey’s growing autocracy reach Thailand
Turkish democracy developed too rapidly in the early years of this century,” says a Bangkok-based technology expert from Istanbul, who wishes to be known only as Erdem, as he is one of thousands of...
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Australian Relief Organisation awarded “Letter of Appreciation” by the...
Australian Relief Organisation (ARO) has been recently awarded a “Letter of Appreciation” by the Cambodian Ministry of Rural Development. ARO, with the donation supports, has established water wells in...
View ArticleTheology professor Suat Yildirim says Diyanet removed his articles from...
The Islamic theologian Suat Yildirim has said the articles he wrote for Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate’s (Diyanet) Islamic Encyclopedia have been removed. Yildirim, known for his ties to the...
View ArticleAfSV Condemns Turkish Teacher’s Death Under Torture Despite Official Innocence
Gokhan Acikkollu, a 42-year-old history teacher in Turkey, was dismissed from his job and was detained on baseless charges in the aftermath of the July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey. On August 5, 2016,...
View ArticleOpposition does not believe Gulen movement was behind the coup attempt
Dr. Kadir Akyuz of University of Bridgeport, CT, USA has carried out a poll to find out who the general public believe was behind the bloody coup attempt in July 2915. According to his results,...
View ArticleErdogan is transforming Turkey into a totalitarian prison
Washington Post Editorial Board In Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the tweet has been turned into a crime, and a troubled democracy is being turned into a dictatorship. Gradually but...
View ArticleBelgium firm to sue Turkey over Gülen-linked assets
A Belgian company, Cascade Investments NV, has launched an $80 million arbitration claim against Turkey in the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ISCID). The claim...
View ArticlePakistan’s Sindh High Court restrains Turkish teachers’ deportation
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday restrained the concerned authority from deporting former employees of Pak-Turk International School, ruling that they can live in the country but only as refugees....
View ArticleSwitzerland probes Turkish diplomats’ attempt to kidnap pro-Gülen businessman
Switzerland is investigating whether Turkish diplomats planned to drug and kidnap a Swiss-Turkish businessman, who is an alleged member of the Gülen movement, as part of a crackdown after the 2016 coup...
View ArticleLocal head of Turkey’s ruling AKP appointed as trustee for 7 seized companies...
Mahmut Birlik, vice chairman of the Gaziantep branch of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been appointed as trustee for seven...
View ArticleMan with 1 dollar bills acquitted of coup charges after admitting cocaine...
Mehmet Sinan İnce, a Turkish lawyer representing Turkey’s infamous mob boss Alaattin Çakıcı, have been acquitted of membership in the Gülen group, after he admitted that he was using one dollar bills...
View ArticleAsylum for Fethullah Gulen Movement Supporters?
Jason Dzubow* Until the recent coup d’état attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, most people in the United States–including journalists and human rights advocates–had never heard about the Gulen Movement...
View ArticleReport: Flynn Had Way More Potential Conflicts Than We Previously Knew
Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser who subsequently pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and is now cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller, had a slew of...
View ArticleUN Human Rights: Turkey should promptly end its protracted state of emergency
Routine extensions of the state of emergency in Turkey have led to profound human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people – from arbitrary deprivation of the right to work and to...
View ArticlePresident Erdogan takes tips from Putin in targeting dissidents abroad
What happened? On 14 March 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats after Russia refused to explain how a Russian-made nerve agent was used in the poisoning of...
View ArticleCanada’s Green Party leader on human rights violations in Turkey: I am...
Canada’s Green Party leader and lawmaker Elizabeth May said during a panel discussion held at the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa on widespread human rights violations in Turkey that “I am entirely...
View ArticleBelgium court sentences man to 6-month in prison over online threats
A local court in Belgium’s Limburg province has given 6-month jail time plus 600 euros fine to a 37-year-old man who threatened Gulen supporters online.“Come on, traitors, I’m waiting for you,” the man...
View ArticleDoes the Gülen (Hizmet) Movement Deny the Armenian Genocide?
Ismail Akbulut In the past, certain individuals affiliated with the Gülen Movement, and sometimes the movement as a whole, have often been accused of supporting lobbying efforts to circumvent the...
View Article2,500 schools confiscated, 30,000 teachers dismissed over Gülen links
Turkish Education Ministry Undersecretary Yusuf Tekin on Sunday said they have completed a purge of Gülen movement members and institutions in his ministry, the DHA news agency reported.“The fight...
View ArticlePro-gov’t journalist says jailed Gulenists should be forced to commit suicide
Pro-government journalist and writer Fazıl Duygun has called on authorities to force people jailed over their links to the Gulen movement to commit suicide.“FETO supporters should be forced in an...
View ArticleJailed Turkish academic Laçiner: I got used to lynching, at least accusations...
Renowned Turkish academic and political scientist Prof. Dr. Sedat Laçiner, who was arrested in the wake of a controversial military coup on July 15, 2016, has stated that “I respond to what is said...
View ArticleHuman Rights Threatened in Today’s Turkey
David Kilgour* For almost a century, Turkey has been an internationally-admired Muslim-majority democracy. Under its World War 1 hero and founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turks obtained full...
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