Hizmet and the interfaith movement
Abdurrahman Kadiri As a former admirer of the famous communist cum philosopher, Karl Marx, I had perceived religion as the real ‘opium of the people’ as a result of the several crises rocking the...
View ArticleThe Most Recent Reviver in the ‘Ulama Tradition: The Intellectual ‘Alim,...
Ali Bulaç* In the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Islamic world underwent a deep crisis and two approaches emerged to offer potential solutions. One of these places emphasis on...
View ArticleBank Asya CEO calls for an end to lawless takeover
Speaking on a live TV interview with Bugün TV on Thursday, ousted Bank Asya CEO Ahmet Beyaz called for an immediate halt to the illegal and political takeover of the bank, engineered by state...
View ArticleDemocracy 'at risk' in Turkey, according to IPI special report
One of the leading international press freedom watchdogs, the International Press Institute (IPI), has said in a special report on Turkey that Turkish authorities' failure to safeguard -- and, in some...
View ArticleNTIC Maths contest raises hope for Nigerians
Fear has been implicated as one of the major causes of poor performance rate in Mathematics among primary school pupils. And it is against this backdrop that the Nigerian Turkish International...
View Article‘Turkish journalism under attack, not just individual journalists’
Various prominent Turkish journalists attending a panel hosted by Columbia University in New York have said that a large-scale attack is under way against journalism in Turkey, not just against...
View ArticleIntroducing the Hizmet Movement *
Thomas Michel I thank the organizers for this invitation to be part of the inaugural dinner of the conference “Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: Alternative Perspectives of the Gülen Movement.” I...
View ArticleErdoğan the caliph
Mümtazer Türköne President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asserts, “I am the leader of a political movement.” Those who support him within the AK Party and the wider government also affirm that “he is the leader...
View ArticleWhat I Saw In Turkey
Catherine Agbo When I told my family and friends that I would be going on a trip to Istanbul, Turkey, as if it was planned, nearly every one of them asked me to bring them turkey from Turkey, before...
View ArticleThings should not go this way!
Ekrem Dumanlı I recently ran into one of Turkey's leading businessmen in a crowded place. I wouldn't have been offended if he had ignored me. I would have thought that he feared government pressure. He...
View ArticleBDDK infringes on own ruling in Bank Asya seizure
Turkey's banking watchdog, which took control of a small stake in the country's largest Islamic lender, Bank Asya, over what it described as an illegal share transaction early this month, appears to...
View ArticlePolitical asylum from persecution in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt The political asylum cases originating from Turkey will likely increase against the background of intensified political persecution of opponents and critics in Turkey by the growing...
View ArticleDocuments alleging Gülen is Mason turn out to be forgeries
Documents published by a pro-government daily on Monday alleging that Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen had secretly joined a Masonic Lodge have turned out to be completely fabricated. The...
View ArticleGYV: 2010 KPSS investigation is another gov’t plot against Hizmet
Mustafa Yeşil, the president of the Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) -- of which prominent Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is the honorary president -- said in a press conference on...
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Turkish charity announces cooperation with German counterpart
ASYA, the disaster team of the Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu, declared its cooperation with the German humanitarian organization I.S.A.R. with a press release on March 30. The cooperation protocol was...
View ArticleGrand Lodge of Liberal Freemasons refutes Yeni Şafak’s claims as baseless
The Grand Lodge of Liberal Freemasons has denied claims by government mouthpiece Yeni Şafak, a daily newspaper known for its slanderous campaigns against the Gülen movement, that Islamic scholar...
View Article‘Parallel’ paranoia reaches the kitchen of Parliament
In the latest example of the Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) “parallel” paranoia, the ruling party's Sinop deputy and head of the Parliamentary Interior Affairs Commission, Mehmet Ersoy,...
View ArticleKingdom of lies
Bülent Keneş Famous Turkish poet Murathan Mungan once said, "You can be everything, but not be disgraced in Turkey," and this aphorism has never been so loyally translated into real life in Turkey...
View ArticleGülen movement acted ‘courageously’ when gov’t-involved graft revealed, Altan...
Ahmet Altan, the former editor-in-chief of the Taraf daily, has said that the Gülen movement acted “courageously” during the public revelations of the Dec. 17, 2013 corruption scandal that implicated...
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Recognition of Kurdish Identity and the Hizmet Movement
Mustafa Gurbuz In the past decade, a plethora of reforms have been focused on the recognition of Kurdish identity in Turkey. Turkey’s bid for European Union membership empowered pro-Kurdish voices to...
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