Dynamics of generating commitment within the Gülen movement
Helen Rose Ebaugh A major empirical finding of Kanter’s study of American utopias that has subsequently influenced the commitment literature is that for a community to survive, three basic challenges...
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Hundreds gather in front of Silivri Prison to protest media crackdown
Hundreds of people gathered in front of Silivri Prison on Saturday to protest the detention of Samanyolu Broadcasting Group General Manager Hidayet Karaca, who is being held in custody in the prison as...
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Barton: Erdoğan intoxicated by power, imperiling democracy in Turkey
Professor Greg Barton, acting director of the Centre for Islam and the Modern World at the Melbourne-based Monash University has expressed his concerns about the course of events in Turkey in terms of...
View ArticleLawyer: Gülen will appeal court decision to cancel his green passport
Nurullah Albayrak, lawyer for Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, said his client will appeal a Council of State ruling that Gülen's green passport was obtained illegally. On Dec. 20, the 10th...
View ArticleGulen’s shadow hangs over Erdogan
Semih İdiz Developments in the continuing war of attrition between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his one-time close ally turned nemesis, the Pennsylvania-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen,...
View ArticleTurkey, caliphate and Erdoğan
Abdullah Bozkurt…Just as all Muslims must oppose the ideology of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), vicious terrorist groups that plan to overthrow governments in Muslim...
View ArticleTUSİAD chairman says does not see ‘parallel structure’ within state
Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD) Chairman Haluk Dinçer has said that he does not see any “parallel structure” within the state as is asserted by pro-government circles,...
View Article2014: Towards an “Empire of Fear”
Adem Yavuz Arslan As another year comes to a close it is customary to sum up the ending one and making projections for the coming. Sadly, 2014 has been a lost year. The corruption files did away with...
View ArticleAn interview at a party-state
Oğuzhan Tekin President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's witch-hunt campaign to find and eliminate people who are sympathizer of the Hizmet movement and not sympathizer of the government was reflected in...
View ArticleSummary of proceedings reveals plot against media
The summary of proceedings of the recent police operation conducted to silence free media demonstrates that it was a plot targeting the Zaman daily and the Samanyolu Broadcasting Group. Almost all of...
View ArticleTurkish court rejects appeal to arrest Dumanlı
A court has rejected an appeal made by a prosecutor requesting the arrest of Zaman daily Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı, stating that there was no new evidence that was sufficient to put Dumanlı behind...
View ArticleHe says, ‘Don’t just be afraid, tremble!’ and now everybody is talking about him
When Today's Zaman told the anonymous whistleblower Fuat Avni in a direct message on Twitter that the editorial team had chosen him person of the year, the mysterious account replied: “Person of the...
View ArticleAl-Awsat: Media freedoms in Turkey only on paper
Asharq al-Awsat, one of the most influential papers in the Arab world, has featured an interview with Zaman Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı with the headline reading “Media freedoms in Turkey, only on...
View ArticleZaman Editor-in-Chief: Turkish government no longer democratic
Asharq Al-Awsat—Ekrem Dumanlı was arrested on December 14, part of a series of coordinated raids by Turkish authorities against a number of prominent media figures, all facing charges of belonging to a...
View Article'I admire Fethullah Gulen’s vision of a world that’s different from the one...
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 24 (Full text) My name is Budd Friend Jones. I’m the senior minister at the 1st Congregational Church of Crystal Lake, which is a suburb of Chicago. I’ve been there since 2006...
View ArticleForms of Islam: Popular Islam – Hizmet-Gülen Movement and Fethullah Gülen
Graham E. FullerHizmet-Gülen Movement Traditional Islamic values of piety, social commitment, tolerance, social justice and moderation in Islam find themselves overwhelmed in the current fray of...
View ArticlePro-gov’t media knows no limits in ’parallel’ claims
Ever since President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a battle against the faith-based Hizmet movement after a corruption probe went public on Dec. 17, 2013, almost no day has passed without...
View ArticleDumanlı explains his detention in video, says journalism not a crime
Zaman editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanlı, who was detained last month, is explaining in a new video clip his detention and the dreadful situation of the freedom of press in Turkey. The footage includes...
View ArticleSajjanhar: Dialogue urges one to excel in one's own faith
Ashok Sajjanhar, the Secretary of the Indian Interior Ministry's National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH), in a statement he made during a workshop organized by the Journalists and Writers...
View Article“The crackdown on critical media in Turkey”
Speaking at the 30th Covering Turkey event on Tuesday, themed as “The crackdown on critical media in Turkey” organized by the Medialog Platform in İstanbul, Zaman Daily’s Chief Deputy Mehmet Kamış,...
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