Saudi Scholar al-Qarni Preaches Tabi’in at Salatin Mosques
One of the most celebrated scholars of Saudi Arabia and the Arab world at large, Sheikh Aaidh al-Qarni delivered sermons on “Tabi’in” (a referral to the people who lived in an age right after the...
View Article'Gulen movement wants to participate in the globalization'
An interview with Ali Bulac* "if there had not been opportunities to become a community and join a community, Turkey would have ended up in a far more complicated and problematic situation. Community...
View ArticleGülen renews support for education in mother tongue
Well-known Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen voiced strong support for education in mother tongue, in reference to allowing use of Kurdish in education, and said basic human rights and freedom...
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Dogan: Gulen earned sympathy among Alevis
Speaking of Gulen’s “mosques-cemevi project” proposal, Dogan said, “Gulen is an exceptional intellectual who can identify conspiracies against Alevis and Sunnis.” Cem Foundation President Izzettin...
View ArticleMr. Gülen's felicitous advice
Bülent Keneş The interview Mr. Fethullah Gülen, a well-respected Turkish-Islamic scholar, gave to Rudaw, an online newspaper in northern Iraq's Arbil, resounded powerfully in the Turkish media. I must...
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Minister Yazici Visits Kazakh-Turkish High School
Customs and Trade Minister Hayati Yazici visited the local Nurorda International Kazakh-Turkish High School besides his official visits on day-two of his Astana itinerary. As a part of his agenda,...
View ArticleAbant Platform on Africa to convene on Friday
The 29th meeting of the Abant Platform, to focus on Africa, will be held from June 28-30 on Lake Abant in the province of Bolu.Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) Secretary-General Hüseyin Hurmalı...
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Malawian President Thanks Kimse Yok Mu
On June 16, Kimse Yok Mu (KYM) volunteers, geared up to assist Malawians, delivered 40 thousand dollars worth of humanitarian aid to the orphans and guardian parents across the country. In addition,...
View ArticleEducation in mother tongue
Orhan Miroglu The Wise People Commission has prepared a report on its two months of work and submitted it to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. What does Turkey -- east and west -- think about the...
View ArticleAbant Platform on Africa
İhsan Yılmaz For three days I will be away from Turkey's increasingly suffocating internal politics. For this reason alone I am grateful to the Journalists and Writers Foundation, organizer of the...
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Abant Platform discusses thriving relations between Turkey and Africa
The unprecedented level of interaction between Turkey and Africa was the dominant theme of the 29th meeting of the Abant Platform on Friday, which convened with the theme of Africa in Abant, Bolu....
View ArticleBetter late than never: Gülen’s Kurdish education initiative
Ruşen Çakır Because of the Gezi Park resistance, several issues of Turkey have been forgotten, left behind in the shade. The most important of them no doubt are the Kurdish and the PKK issues and the...
View ArticleArinc: Gulen lights the way for us
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc reflected on Fethullah Gulen’s remarks, saying, “We shouldn’t label anyone as capulcu (looter) or the like” on the recent Gezi Park incidents. On a TV show at...
View ArticleFuture's continent and African renaissance
Bülent Keneş Over the last three days since Friday, the issues and the glamorous developments of the African continent have been discussed in a hotel along the magnificent Abant Lake. In addition to...
View ArticleNo place for excuses!
Ekrem Dumanlı Mr. Fethullah Gülen, a well-respected Turkish Islamic scholar, has made a very important statement. He says when we consider that people are endowed with rights and freedoms...
View ArticleAfrica pledges further cooperation with Turkey based on mutual respect
At the three-day meeting of the Abant Platform from June 28-30 to discuss Africa, participants from both Africa and Turkey agreed to intensify cooperation based on their mutual respect, goodwill and...
View ArticleMandela and Gülen
İbrahim Özdemir* (This story was written during the darkest days of the so-called Feb. 28 process and was published in the Zaman daily on Dec. 21, 1999. Today the whole world is focused on Nelson...
View ArticleSupporters and Critics of the Gülen Movement
In their article “A Contextual Analysis of the Supporters and Critics of the Gülen/Hizmet Movement” (*), authors Loye Ashton and Tamer Balci make an analysis of the Supporters and Critics of the...
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Sufi influences in Gülen’s early life
Mustafa GökçekFethullah Gülen is primarily a scholar, who, while far from establishing a Sufi order, aims to revive and combine the activism of Prophet Muhammad and his companions, the asceticism of...
View ArticleMinister Çelik supports Gülen’s call for Alevi-Sunni brotherhood
Labor and Social Security Minister Faruk Çelik has supported the call “Let the mosque and the cemevi be side by side,” by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. During an interview with Cihan news...
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