A declaration of treason is imminent
Abdülhamit Bilici When certain circles of the guardian authority opened court cases aiming to see the Justice and Development Party (AKP) -- which had come to power by the vote of the Turkish people --...
View ArticleTurkey’s witch hunt against the media
Ekrem Dumanlı When I first appeared in court after last month’s raid on my newspaper in Istanbul and 80 hours of detention, I asked the judge: “Two columns and a news report: Is that all the evidence...
View ArticleThe responsibility of the Hizmet movement
Özgür Koca These are difficult times for Muslims. The Islamic World is suffering from a deep economic, political and moral crisis and is taking a downward path in the vicious cycle of corruption,...
View ArticleWhat should we expect from 2015?
Emre Uslu As you may know, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have been able to postpone the Kurdish settlement process they started in 2009 until after the 2015...
View ArticleÖzfatura: Erdoğan does not want civil society that is not pro-AK Party
Dr. Burhan Özfatura witnessed the meetings of former President Turgut Özal and former Prime Minister Tansu Çiller with Fethullah Gülen. He says: “Both asked what they can do for him. Gülen told them...
View ArticleErdoğan’s abstract enemies: parallel organization and superior mind
Mümtazer Türköne Totalitarian regimes rely on their ability to manufacture enemies. In his New Year message, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan referred to a host of "external enemies" and "traitors." The...
View ArticleCivil society will not bow
Şahin Alpay Turkey is effectively governed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in violation of all the constitutional provisions that define a parliamentary system and a presidential oath that obliges...
View ArticleBeing crushed under baggage: Shortness of breath
Ekrem Dumanlı We are facing a great danger. Some people who do not want to hear any critical remarks have established a regime of repression. A 16-year-old was sent to jail; a journalist who posted a...
View ArticleAllegations should receive prize in fiction
Günal Kurşun As far as I know, there are five famous prizes in fiction in Turkey, given in the name of Haldun Taner, Sait Faik, Yunus Nadi, Yaşar Nabi Nayır and Selçuk Baran. I suppose there might be...
View ArticleLatest salvo against political opponents in Turkey
Scott Bleiweis In April 2014 I touched on attempts to expose corruption among government leaders in Turkey. It is sad to hear that this struggle continues, and those in power are taking increasingly...
View ArticleHello Ankara, are you there?
Ali Aslan Readers of The Washington Post who opened the paper on Friday morning saw an article on the op-ed page titled "Turkey's witch hunt." It was written by Ekrem Dumanlı, the editor-in-chief of...
View ArticleErdoğan fatigue in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey's combative president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has miscalculated in believing that the fatigue factor will set in on the opposition with his strategy of buying off and...
View ArticleThe meaning of this crisis
Ali Bulaç In the wake of the Dec. 17 and 25 bribery and corruption operations, the faction led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has directed two main accusations at the Hizmet movement: a) that the...
View ArticleWill the AKP-Gülen rift save Turkey’s secularists
Mustafa Gürbüz* In Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's “New Turkey,” anyone could be next. The "New Turkey" is ever more synonymous with the old military-backed regime as Erdoğan seeks allies in his war....
View Article'Hizmet is a social movement worldwide, that has a heart, and it’s always...
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 25 (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 ArticleHate speech and its impact on the movement (1)
Mahmut Akpınar* Hate speech consists of prejudices nurtured against certain groups, their isolation, intimidation and neutralization. It amounts to the otherization of a social group, cowing it into...
View ArticleJWF strongly condemns terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo
Twelve people including two police officers were killed in a shooting at the Paris offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, according to Reuters. We as the Journalists and Writers...
View ArticleToday’s Zaman: Nothing can justify terrorism
Everyone has witnessed once again that violence is not specific to any religion, language, nationality or region. A police officer was killed in a suicide attack at the Police Department's Tourism...
View ArticleWhy are they becoming terrorists?
Aydoğan Vatandaş Whatever the reason or the motivation for the horrible terrorist attacks in Paris, it is obvious that it is against the basic principles of Islam and should be strongly condemned by...
View Article'The members of Hizmet work God into their lives; they put love and kindness...
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 26 (Full text) My name is Ken Hunter. I go by the name of “Buzz” for most of my friends. I've been fortunate enough to have been friends with people from the Hizmet Movement for...
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