Rabbi Beliak: "Hizmet Movement is a great reflection on Islam"
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 34 (Full text) My name is Rabbi Haim Beliak**. I’m pleased to be here today… I live here in Los Angeles, but I also work quite a number of months of the year in Poland with the...
View ArticleFethullah Gülen and his theology of social responsibility
Zeki Sarıtoprak The aim of this chapter is to find an answer for the question of whether or not it is possible to talk about a contemporary Islamic theology of social responsibility. If so, who would...
View ArticleLebanonization in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt As the violence surges in Turkey, perhaps deliberately provoked by beleaguered political Islamists who are struggling to stay in power ahead of a likely snap election, the country's...
View ArticleGülen Schools and Rule-of-Law in Turkey
Michael Rubin Much has been written about religious thinker Fethullah Gülen’s Hizmet movement. To many, it is the most promising example of a peaceful movement to tie Islamic modernism to Western...
View ArticleMeet the Turkish couple who spent their wedding day feeding 4,000 Syrian...
A Turkish bride and groom decided to share their joy on their wedding day by inviting 4,000 Syrian refugees to eat with them and celebrate in the southern Turkish city of Kilis. Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu...
View ArticlePolitical raids targeting educational institutions a ‘hate crime’
Lawyers representing the private Samanyolu Educational Institution and the FEM prep schools in Eskişehir province to take repeated political raids against the establishment to court, underlining that...
View ArticleOn the failure of the national education system
Cengiz Aktar This is university enrollment week. According to the results of the undergraduate placement exam (LYS), 1,239,800 out of the 2,010,790 candidates filed a preference list for placement. A...
View ArticleKaraca’s son: My father has been in jail for 10 months without an indictment
Sıdkı Karaca, the eldest son of Samanyolu Broadcasting Group General Manager Hidayet Karaca, who has been held in prison ever since a Dec. 14, 2014 government-orchestrated operation against media...
View ArticleTurkish school student project among global finalists of 2015 Google Science...
A project by students from a Turkish school in Bosnia called “Catch it on the Wing,” which is designed to produce hydrogen storage material and biodiesel from chicken feathers, is among the 20 global...
View ArticlePlot against Gülen movement in tatters as suspects confess to false testimony
New testimony in a court case incriminating the faith-based Gülen movement indicates that police and prosecutors had pressured suspects to make false statements against the movement, revealing that the...
View ArticleReport: Pro-gov’t dailies charged with slander in Erdoğan daughter...
Prosecutors have charged two pro-government newspapers for printing “fabricated” Twitter conversations, which they said were between two opposition lawmakers and a journalist they claimed was the owner...
View Article'Turkey’s social problems a result of faulty default settings'
Zaman daily columnist Şahin Alpay points out that tensions looming over Turkey are due to the founding principles and philosophy of the republic, which was formed in 1923, adding that in recent years...
View ArticleBank Asya shareholders track unjust treatment, vow to seek legal redress
The shareholders of recently-seized Islamic-lender Bank Asya and their lawyers have agreed that the attorneys will keep a record of what they call unjust treatment of the bank in order to collect...
View ArticleGeorgetown University in Qatar professor authors book on interfaith dialogue,...
Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) professor Father Thomas Michel has written a new book titled “Peace and Dialogue in a Plural Society: Contributions of the Hizmet Movement at a Time of Global...
View ArticleGÜVENDER announces prep schools will continue to operate
Güven Preparatory Schools Owners Association (GÜVENDER) Vice President Eyüp Kılcı announced on Tuesday that prep schools, also known as dershanes, will continue to operate and restart their...
View ArticleAKP’s silence on ISIL
As the new Republican People's Party (CHP) report on the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has shown again, Turkey is known for harboring ISIL terrorists. While we do not have evidence of the...
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Turkish school declared most successful in Denmark
A Turkish school founded by educators inspired by the teachings of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has been ranked as Denmark's most successful school, in research conducted by one of the...
View ArticleAvni: New plot under way to blame Gülen movement for PKK attacks
A whistleblower who tweets under the pseudonym Fuat Avni has claimed that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his accomplices have devised a new plot against the faith-based Gülen movement, also known...
View ArticleCouple offering wedding feast to Syrian refugees surprised by feedback
A Turkish couple who have made their way onto major newspapers around the world for spending their wedding day feeding 4,000 Syrian refugees in the southern province of Kilis on the Syrian border have...
View ArticleTÜBİTAK changes olympiad scoring system, penalizes private schools
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) has changed the scoring system it uses to evaluate student grades in science olympiads it sponsors, giving private schools a...
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